This is my first attempt to use Hyper-V on Windows 8 (or Hyper-V in general), though in the past I have created many virtual machines using Virtual PC, Virtual Server and VMWare Server and Workstation.
I tried to set up a Windows 7 x86 virtual machine, using a .iso file (obtained from MSDN) on a network share. When I pressed the "Finish" button, the Hyper-V Manager said I did not have enough privilege to open the .iso file. So, rather than mess with the permissions (which always confuse me) I decided to copy the .iso to the local Windows 8 machine over my network. But the .iso file was no longer there -- Hyper-V had deleted it. Finding this hard to believe I repeated the exercise with the x64 .iso version, and the same thing happened.
What is going on? How can the Hyper-V Manager delete a file that it says I do not have permission to open.
Surely this is a bug...
David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVP