Saturday, October 4, 2008

Hyper-V Beta And RC0

Problems with upgrading to RC0:
Had to recreate the virtual machine definitions after upgrading from the beta Hyper-V to RC0. Later found the link below:
Virtual machines that were created on the beta version of the Hyper-V role do not start after the Hyper-V role is updated to a later version
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949222/

Installing Fedora 8 In Hyper-V
Installed Fedora 8 as guest in Hyper-V successfully by clicking next.
Network worked after adding a legacy network interface.
Mouse in Fedora with out the work around detailed in the page below.
Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

Linux Integration Components for Microsoft Hyper-V
Adding the Xen kernel with out the Linux Integration Components seems to make little noticable change.
Web pages below detail configuring a non supported system for Linux Integration Componets.
Hyper-V Integration Components in x86_64 CentOS and RHEL
Hyper-V Integration Components in SuSE 10
Linux Integration Components for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V