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Hyper-V Installation Tricks - Prologue

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Updated for Hyper-V RTM

As you may have heard, we've shipped Hyper-V.  Sorry for the lack of posts - it seems like I'm always on vacation when we ship a major release like this, so my posts lag a few days behind.

Installing Hyper-V isn't exactly a difficult task, but if you have to do it on multiple machines, installing Windows, installing Hyper-V and then applying the RTM patch can be a bit time consuming.   The purpose of this series of posts is to offer a few different ways to help you speed up your Hyper-V deployments.

Here are the major topics I'm planning to post about:

If you've got any other suggestions for topics, please let me know.

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  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2008
    How about a complete step-by-step best practice from migrating from Win2003+VS2005R2 to Win2008+Hyper-V?

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2008
    How about a complete Hyper-V installation on Win2008 Core?

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2008
    I am 2 days strugling with installinh Hyper-V Rc0 on 2008 64 bit Core. it does not work - i get 2 sort off errors - black screen after green Microsoft indicator bar or bluescreen 0x0000007E. So i also wait for installing steps for core.

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2008
    John Howard has done a post on enabling the Hyper-V Role on Server Core. Check it out here:  http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2008/03/30/how-to-add-the-hyper-v-role-to-a-windows-server-2008-server-core-machine.aspx

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2008
    @Andres: The STOP 0x7E is on the host or the guest?

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2008
    Domain Controllers are perfect virtualization targets, but virtualizing a Domain Controller reintroduces