All,

I was trying to move my Virtual Environment from Oracle Virtual Box to Hyper-V.  I have run into a stumbling box that I can't seem to get past.  One of my main uses of Virtual Environment is to use it to remote into my Work PC.  I work from home, so this VM I run quite a bit.  To connect to work I use Cisco AnyConnect.  I do want to use multiple monitors(4) to do my work and my current graphics card does not support grouping monitors into a single one(I'm looking at upgrading sometime).

So, here is my challenge, when I use connect, I'm able to connect to my work VPN.  But I have that  tiny Hyper-V window.

When I use Remote Desktop I can make the screen the size I want.  However, I can't connect to my VPN.  The error message is something about it can't connect from a remote desktop.  I have tried setting up two External Switches so that it has 2 connections two my PC.  However, when Cisco AnyConnect takes over, pinging both IPs become unresponsive.

So, how can I use multiple monitors with Hyper-V and get around this limitation?  

For now, I have had to uninstall hyper-v as installing it causes Oracle Virtualbox to not work at all. I am able to get this to work fine with Virtualbox running a Windows 7 environment.  

My OS is Windows 8 Professional

Hey,

I got a question.  I have a Windows 8 laptop.  I wanted to play around w/ Domain Controllers, etc, so I installed a VM of Windows Server 2012.  I installed the Domain Controller services on the VM.

Now, I'd like the host to be able to join the domain.  Obviously, the VM must be running for the host to join the domain.  Is there a way to start up the VM automatically when the host powers up, so that the host can join the domain?

What's the best way to do this?

I'm trying to get a handle on NIC Teaming. After reading several white papers and looking at several blog entries, my head has too many questions floating around in it.

My Setup:

4 Windows 2012 Hosts in a Cluster All running Hyper-V
Management NIC
Redundant Channel NIC
4 other NICs to use for the Hyper-V Guests. 

Guest VMs are:

AD DCs (DNS, WINS, DHCP, AV Server, Print Spooler)
File Server
SQL 2008 R2 Production Server
SQL 2008 R2 Post-Production Server
SQL 2000 Server
IIS 8 Server
A Few Win2012 Member Servers
TeamFoundationStudio Server (SQL, IIS, Sharepoint)
RemoteDesktop Server

My Networking goals are to increase the bandwidth between the SQL 2008 R2 Production Server, SQL 2000 Server and IIS 8 Server. And to have the IIS8 Server pump out more Data to Clients.

Reading through it looks like I have 3 options:

    NIC Teaming on Hyper-V Host
Address Hash
Hyper-V Port

    NIC Teaming within the VM Guest

Seems like the Best is to have NICs connected to the Hyper-V Virtual Switch with SR-IOV and then do NIC Teaming in a Windows 2012 Guest OS.

Though some of my Guest OSes are Windows2003 R2 (for the SQL2000) and Windows 2008 R2 for SQL 2008 R2.

What are my best options to help get better bandwidth ?  Is having all of them on the same Virtual Switch good enough and then Team the IIS8 Server within the Guest?

Was thinking of having 2 of the 4 NICs be Teamed at the Host, and the other two Available to the Hyper-V Switch and be able to NIC Team within the VMs?

Suggestions?

I have a Standard Technet retail account. On this license you have only 2 license for install windows server 2012 Standard.  Is it possible to install all the domain controller virtual in hyper-v 2012 without a physical Domain controller?? And give this problems??

PC with hyper-v 2012

- Virtual a domain controller

- Possible Second  virtual server (exchange 2013 as test)

Hey,

I have a general question - maybe somebody might have some insight on....

I just got a new laptop and was configuring it for my development environment.  I wanted to run IIS, SQL Server, TFS, etc.

Originally, I was going to load all of these services on the host PC, but, since I'm new to VMs, etc, I have been playing around w/ Hyper V.

I was thinking about creating a separate VM for :    { IIS Web Server, SQL Server, TFS }.

Is this a recommended approach?  I'm sure they could all run OK on my host PC, but, is there any performance advantage to running each of these on their on VM?

Is this overkill or will I loose performance by doing this? (running multiple VMs vs running all services on host) ?

Thanks

-B

What with SBS 2011 going end of life I am trying to put together alternative solutions

So far I have the following

• Server 2012 Essentials + Exchange online (Office 365)
• Server 2012 Essentials + Separate Exchange 2012 server
• Server 2012 Standard + Separate Exchange 2012 server
• Server 2012 Standard + Exchange Online (Office 365)

Ok fairly straight forward so far....

Now comes my dilemma

For companies that don't want 2 servers or Exchange Online (Office 365), what's the best solution?

• Server 2012 Standard (DC) + 2 Virtual Machines (1 x Exchange - 1 x File Server) ???

Your thoughts much appreciated

Many thanks

Connecting the Shared Storage for a File server to a VM is too clear to me.   In the Current File server setup we have iSCSI Drives mapped as Passthrough Drives to the VM Images.  My understanding With Clustering Hyper-V is you cant to the Mapping of Physical Disk to the VM anymore.

You Make the Disk that will have the file server Data on it a CSV and then place a Dynamic VHDX file on it that all the Hosts can see. Then use that VHDX file in the VM config.  Is this the preferred way to do this or is there a way to map shared storage in a cluster to a VM?

Thanks,

Hey,

I have a new laptop that I just bought that has Windows 8 on it.  I installed Hyper V, and installed Windows Server 2012 as a guest OS.  I need to do some testing at home with a similar environment to work.  One of the tools that I need to use is Hyper V Virtual Machine Manacer (SCVMM).  That tool requires that the host running it is on a domain.  Therefore, that is why I installed the virtual domain controller.  I created the domain, and joined the host OS to it (Win 8).

I understand that if the DC is not running, the login will use cached credentials, which is fine with me.  My purpose was just to be on a domain, I don't necessarily care if the VM running the DC is online or not.  I would prefer to leave it offline (due to resources).

So, everything seems to work OK when the DC VM is offline.  However, I noticed that sometimes when logging out, it is extremely slow (very slow logout times).  I'm not sure if this is because the Win 8 O/S is trying to contact the DC, and it is timing out.  Is this what is causing the slow time?  Is there a way to shorten this timeout?

Any insight?

Thanks in advance!

With the Importing of a VM in 2012 you have the option of InPlace keeping the registration ID, or copying the VM and placing it in a new location and creating a new Registration ID.

Is there a way to do In In-Place Import of the VM and HDs, though create a new Registration ID?

I'm copying VMs from different Hosts and don't want to have to copy twice to just have it import it with a new ID. 

Thanks!

Hello,

I have  3 server and these servers same resources and same model.

I want to install hyperV 2012 on these servers. I haven't a  storage device. so, I must use local disk on servers. However I need to do NFS raid.

 if first server is down, I want to be able to run virtual machine on other serves. 

So, I think; 

create 3 vhd disk and mount on first server. One of them be on  local disk. 

other vhd files stored on the other 2 servers via network path.

and I will create raid5 with these vhd files.

can I do it ? or is there another way ?

Thanks

Hey,

I have been playing around w/ Hyper V, etc, and I added a VM with Windows Server 2012.  I created an Virtual Network Switch (internal).  I am running a domain controller on the VM.  So, the host machine now has 2 LAN connections (1 Internet to my Wifi Router, and 1 Internal (mydomain.local).

It seems like ever since I added this 2nd intranet LAN on the host PC, my public internet browsing has slowed down.  For example, when the network adapter (vEthernet VLAN Internal) is enabled, my browsing to public internet sites (msdn, etc) is slower than when the vEthernet adapter is disabled.

Any ideas what this could be, and how to troubleshoot?

I had Virtual PC when I was using Windows 7. When I upgraded my OS to Windows 8 and I installed Hyper-V. Now when I start my guest(Windows 7) machine it keeps running in loop(starts- stops more like reset).

Event Viewer

Event Id : 18560

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">- <System>  <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker" Guid="{51DDFA29-D5C8-4803-BE4B-2ECB715570FE}" />   <EventID>18560</EventID>   <Version>0</Version>   <Level>1</Level>   <Task>0</Task>   <Opcode>0</Opcode>   <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>   <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-11-25T14:31:40.671345200Z" />   <EventRecordID>1215</EventRecordID>   <Correlation />   <Execution ProcessID="1752" ThreadID="5400" />   <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker-Admin</Channel>   <Computer>Wizard-PC</Computer>   <Security UserID="S-1-5-83-1-3253168545-1291008576-2671657123-2601362917" />   </System>- <UserData>- <VmlEventLog xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Virtualization/Events">  <VmName>Test</VmName>   <VmId>C1E769A1-3A40-4CF3-A340-3E9FE5A50D9B</VmId>   <Rax>0xa0000</Rax>   <Rbx>0xffffffff</Rbx>   <Rcx>0x9fffd</Rcx>   <Rdx>0x9fc00</Rdx>   <Rsp>0x1d38</Rsp>   <Rbp>0x1f20</Rbp>   <Rsi>0x3d961</Rsi>   <Rdi>0x3d95d</Rdi>   <R8>0x0</R8>   <R9>0x0</R9>   <R10>0x0</R10>   <R11>0x0</R11>   <R12>0x0</R12>   <R13>0x0</R13>   <R14>0x0</R14>   <R15>0x0</R15>   <Rip>0xff4e</Rip>   <Rflags>0x10083</Rflags>   <FpControlStatus>7F030000000000000000000000000000</FpControlStatus>   <XmmControlStatus>0000000000000000801F0000FFFF0000</XmmControlStatus>   <Cr0>0x11</Cr0>   <Cr2>0x0</Cr2>   <Cr3>0x0</Cr3>   <Cr4>0x0</Cr4>   <Cr8>0x0</Cr8>   <Xfem>0x0</Xfem>   <Dr0>0x0</Dr0>   <Dr1>0x0</Dr1>   <Dr2>0x0</Dr2>   <Dr3>0x0</Dr3>   <Dr6>0xffff0ff0</Dr6>   <Dr7>0x400</Dr7>   <Es>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Es>   <Cs>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF08009BC0</Cs>   <Ss>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Ss>   <Ds>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Ds>   <Fs>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Fs>   <Gs>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Gs>   <Ldtr>00000000000000000000000000000000</Ldtr>   <Tr>0000000000000000FFFF000000008B00</Tr>   <Idtr>000000000000FFFF0000000000000000</Idtr>   <Gdtr>000000000000270088BC000000000000</Gdtr>   <Tsc>0xa96d25b5</Tsc>   <ApicBase>0xfee00900</ApicBase>   <SysenterCs>0x0</SysenterCs>   <SysenterEip>0x0</SysenterEip>   <SysenterEsp>0x0</SysenterEsp>   </VmlEventLog>  </UserData>  </Event>

Event Id: 18570:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">- <System>  <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker" Guid="{51DDFA29-D5C8-4803-BE4B-2ECB715570FE}" />   <EventID>18570</EventID>   <Version>0</Version>   <Level>1</Level>   <Task>0</Task>   <Opcode>0</Opcode>   <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>   <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-11-25T14:31:40.671345200Z" />   <EventRecordID>1214</EventRecordID>   <Correlation />   <Execution ProcessID="1752" ThreadID="5400" />   <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker-Admin</Channel>   <Computer>Wizard-PC</Computer>   <Security UserID="S-1-5-83-1-3253168545-1291008576-2671657123-2601362917" />   </System>- <UserData>- <VmlEventLog xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Virtualization/Events">  <VmName>Test</VmName>   <VmId>C1E769A1-3A40-4CF3-A340-3E9FE5A50D9B</VmId>   <FailureCategory><not a known problem></FailureCategory>   <InstructionByteCount>16</InstructionByteCount>   <InstructionBytes>81395253442075098179045054522074</InstructionBytes>   <Rax>0xa0000</Rax>   <Rbx>0xffffffff</Rbx>   <Rcx>0x9fffd</Rcx>   <Rdx>0x9fc00</Rdx>   <Rsp>0x1d38</Rsp>   <Rbp>0x1f20</Rbp>   <Rsi>0x3d961</Rsi>   <Rdi>0x3d95d</Rdi>   <R8>0x0</R8>   <R9>0x0</R9>   <R10>0x0</R10>   <R11>0x0</R11>   <R12>0x0</R12>   <R13>0x0</R13>   <R14>0x0</R14>   <R15>0x0</R15>   <Rip>0xff4e</Rip>   <Rflags>0x10083</Rflags>   <FpControlStatus>7F030000000000000000000000000000</FpControlStatus>   <XmmControlStatus>0000000000000000801F0000FFFF0000</XmmControlStatus>   <Cr0>0x11</Cr0>   <Cr2>0x0</Cr2>   <Cr3>0x0</Cr3>   <Cr4>0x0</Cr4>   <Cr8>0x0</Cr8>   <Xfem>0x0</Xfem>   <Dr0>0x0</Dr0>   <Dr1>0x0</Dr1>   <Dr2>0x0</Dr2>   <Dr3>0x0</Dr3>   <Dr6>0xffff0ff0</Dr6>   <Dr7>0x400</Dr7>   <Es>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Es>   <Cs>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF08009BC0</Cs>   <Ss>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Ss>   <Ds>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Ds>   <Fs>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Fs>   <Gs>0000000000000000FFFFFFFF100093C0</Gs>   <Ldtr>00000000000000000000000000000000</Ldtr>   <Tr>0000000000000000FFFF000000008B00</Tr>   <Idtr>000000000000FFFF0000000000000000</Idtr>   <Gdtr>000000000000270088BC000000000000</Gdtr>   <Tsc>0xa9694d9d</Tsc>   <ApicBase>0xfee00900</ApicBase>   <SysenterCs>0x0</SysenterCs>   <SysenterEip>0x0</SysenterEip>   <SysenterEsp>0x0</SysenterEsp>   <PendingInterruption>0x0</PendingInterruption>   </VmlEventLog>  </UserData>  </Event>

I tried disabling AVX(intel feature known to cause issues with Hyper V)

My Laptop Details:

Make: Dell XPS L702x

CPU: i7 - 2630QM

RAM: 6GB

Graphic Card: Geforce 555m

I am again going through learning curve with new server 2012 product line in my LAN. I want to test the Essential 2012 server and SBS 2011.

I have Dell R510 with 64 GB with Windows 2008 available. Lot of hard drive space and up to 6 NIC available. My ISP allows me 6 static IP addresses so not an issue there.

I want to have one external network through the host w2008 (96.x.y.10) logically link to a virtual LAN with one server and test workstation (192.168.10.x) and another full external access (96.x.y.11) with the other LAN (192.168.11.x).

The LANS will have nothing to do with each other, just testing server solutions. If I can get this working I may move my old SBS2008 over to a third connection.

Can anyone point me to a good leraning site or documentation on this? Thanks

Guzzifrank

Hi,

I have some VM images running on my Windows 8 laptop, I previously had these images running with Oracle VirtualBox (the drives are VHDs) and the internal network connected fine (VM images could talk to one another).

Now that I have moved the images into Hyper-V for Windows 8 and created a new network adapter, no server can talk to one another.

The Images/VHDs I have running are; Active Directory, Sharepoint and Lync.  I had created an internal network using 192.168.xxx.xxx addresses for all the machines.

Here is/are my question(s);

• What is the proper way to configure a Hyper-V Network to allow the images to talk to one another?
• What is the proper way to allow these images to communicate externally with the internet?  I have 1 NIC on my laptop and when HV took over the connection I could no longer access the internet from the host of my laptop.

Thanks - Greg.

I am looking at QNAP and SansDigital currently for Hyper-V 3.0, just curious what others are running and what their experiences are. Thanks!

I have come across a problem whereby I have 2 servers configured as a failover cluster with Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012). I have 2 VM's , one on each server. If I have both VM's accessing their own DVD drive ('D') all is well until I test a failover scenario. It seems as though on a failover the new VM tries to also access the DVD drive and cannot and fails to startup. The only way to get it back online is to modify the settings of the VM that was already on the server and remove the DVD drive from the VM and then you can start the failed over VM. I hope this makes sense. Is this normal for a failover?

Thanks

Simon

I had a W2K8 r2 Datacenter host with 7 vms. I upgraded the host to W2k12 Datacenter. All the vms worked correctly except one W2K8 standard VM. When I loaded the new integration services into the W2K8 standard VM, it notified me they were an older version, I went ahead and installed them. Reboot the VM. On startup I get notified that the updates failed, and they are rolled back.

The vm boots up ok and runs fine on the old (w2k8) integration driver. In Hyper-V Manger, for this VM, in the Networking tab it says Status: Degraded (integration services upgrade required).

Should I worry about this? The VM seems to work fine. Any suggested fix? Thanks.

Hello

I think I have a unique situation whereby my virtual machine XML file says there are 3 snapshots.

However, within HyperV gui there are NO snapshots present. I think this has occured due to a VHD restore from DPM but did not restore the XML file.   There are however snapshot files on the physical drive but the guids don't match the XML file anyway.

Am I safe to delete the rogue snapshot files and what should I do about the XML snapshot entries?

here is the current live XML file - again, the GUI shows NO snapshots.

<disk_merge_pending type="bool">False</disk_merge_pending>
    <owner>
      <sid type="string">xxxxxxxxxxx</sid>
    </owner>
    <power>
      <host_shutdown>
        <action type="integer">1</action>
      </host_shutdown>
      <host_startup>
        <action type="integer">1</action>
        <delay type="integer">0</delay>
      </host_startup>
    </power>
    <security>
      <scope type="string">xxxxxxxxxxxxx</scope>
    </security>
    <snapshots>
      <data_root type="string">E:\xxxxxxxxxx\Snapshots\</data_root>
      <list>
        <node0>
          <guid type="string">04773C63-EB00-4023-A78C-5D87708D94F0</guid>
        </node0>
        <node1>
          <guid type="string">D3A605A9-973B-4B34-8250-DB1D2F3D27D2</guid>
        </node1>
        <node2>
          <guid type="string">DECB605F-FABA-4862-84B5-4C846C56F115</guid>
        </node2>
        <size type="integer">0</size>

I have a Server 2008 64bit physical server that I am trying to convert to a Hyper-V VM. I used disk2vhd from Microsoft to create the VM. When I try to start the VM on a Server 2012 host I get the message "Boot failure. Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device"

Any suggestions as to how to make the created VM boot?

Hi,

I have WS 2012 with Hyper-V role installed. I´m using HP Proliant 380 G7 servers. I do not want to use WS teaming functionality, I need HP teaming.

Is it fully supported by Microsoft?

Thanks.

Petr Weiner