Virtualization rules license
Hi, I can virtualize up to two Windows VMs on a Windows Standard server as per the documentation. But I was told that no function or feature can be installed on the host server. But if I have applications developed and running as windows services,…
FCM vNIC networking questions
Hi all I have done a fair bit of reading on multiple forums (Altaro/Naviko etc.) about hyper-v/FCM recommended network setup and I was hoping for a bit of clarification on a few points. The recommendation seems to be to use a team and then create…
Hyper-V Hosted Domain Controllers Failing
I'm dealing with two domain controllers hosted in Hyper-V, each running Server 2008 R2. One is a primary and the other a secondary. Unfortunately I did not install them so I'll provide as much information as I can. Shortly after acquiring this client…
How to check particular user has what rights on Hyper-V Failover cluster using WMI APIs
How to check particular user has what rights on Hyper-V Failover cluster using WMI APIs. e.g.: I wanted to check, does "user1" has rights (with provided credentials) to list out VM(s), perform checkpoint/snapshot on VM(s) in Hyper-V Failover…
Hyper-V Remote Management / Windows 10 client / Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Hello, I've been struggling for a few days now with some crazy issues connecting to my 2012 R2 server via Hyper-V manager from Windows 10. Setup: Client is a Windows 10 Pro machine running v1903 Host is a Hyper-V 2012 R2 machine running…
Hyper-V Server and multiple Essentials VM licensing
I have a couple of questions. 1) Can you run a bare metal Hypervisor type 1 with two VM's both running W19 Essentials. 2) Would Q1 be OK if each instance was a separate paid license. 3) Can there be more than one Essentials server in a domain. 4) Are…
hyper-v re-loads window after selecting window size
hyper-v re-loads window after selecting window size, when it reloads ubuntu is gone and i have a blank screen with other login options like xorg, x11rdp, ect. how do i stop this from happeneing? running win 10 (2004) windows and hyper-v updated. …
Hyper-V on W10Pro AMD Ryzen 7 no longer installs/boots CentOS 8 VM
Hi All, My W10Pro box recently upgraded to 2004 (19041.388). I am running CentOS 8 VM on an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X + 32GB RAM lab config. When performing regular maintenance yesterday (dnf update), the VM did not reboot ! Black screen with Hyper-V in the…
Hyper-V replication not deleting HRL files
Hi, I have an issue with Hyper-V replication whereby the destination HRL files are not being deleted and I just wanted to check if anyone else has a similar configuration and if they are seeing this issue. We replicate a number of VMs from a 2012 R2…
Kerberos Replication failure - clocks are skewed
We had a planned power outage this weekend. I brought down the Virtual Machines in a controlled manner. Everything came back up operational except for my replication. When I tried to resume the replication it would throw an error stating the clocks…
Hyper-V on W10Pro AMD Ryzen 7 no longer installs/boots CentOS 8 VM
Hi All, My W10Pro box recently upgraded to 2004 (19041.388). I am running CentOS 8 VM on an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X + 32GB RAM lab config. When performing regular maintenance yesterday (dnf update), the VM did not reboot ! Black screen with Hyper-V in the…
Ethernet media disconnected after enabling Virtual Machine Platform
I enabled WSL and VMP from Windows Features. But after the restart, Windows showed my ethernet cable is disconnected. ipconfig shows the ethernet media is disconnected. It fixes itself after I disable Virtual Machine Platform (WSL2). WSL1 works…
How to re-activate Windows 10 after Hyper-V Upgrade from generation 1 and generation 2
I initially created a Generation 1 Hyper-V VM and installed Windows 10 Home. Got it activated (paid for the retail license, but have no product key and just an order number). I wanted to use some Generation 2 features (notably extra support for audio…
hyper-v increase the number of unsuccessful vm start attempts
Is there a way in hyper-v to increase the faulty starts of a vm? We are currently struggling with a firmware problem with RHEL / CentOS 8 (UEFI) concerning hyper-v, whereby the VM is started and after 5 unsuccessful attempts it is stopped. Is it possible…
Utilising wifi with ubutu and esp8266
I have Win10 Pro and am wanting to utilize Hyper V with Ubuntu to run the Tuya Convert terminal scripts and flash ESP8266 device with tasmota. I have been able to install Hyper V, login to Ubuntu, complete the tuya convert install but am not able to…
Error expand fixed vhdx
Hi All, Anyone know was would be causing this error? I am trying to expand the drive but keep getting the error doesn't matter if the server is on or not also no checkpoints present. It's a fixed drive on Server 2012 R2.
Failure to Boot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS 8 using Hyper-V 2016
When using RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 as the guest operating system on a virtual machine (VM) running on a Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 host, the VM in some cases fails to boot and returns to the GRUB boot menu. It sometimes takes up to 20 attempts before the…
Hyper-V Installing windows 10 cannot be used with the mouse keyboard to operate the next step.
System: Windows 10 Pro 2004. Mouse keyboard: USB wireless key mouse. Model: surface book3. Description of the problem: Install second-generation hyper-V, windows 10. The installation interface appears, the mouse input to the virtual…
Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster NIC Teaming Qlogic 10GB NIC Virtual switch BSOD
We are using 3x DL380 G7 with Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster. In order to get more performance out of it we added 2 HPE NC523sfp 2P 10GB NICS per host. The ISCSI traffic worked as a charm. So we had a consultant in to try and use the 2 remaining free…
Memory error starting VM with unused memory available.
I have a Windows Server 2016 Essential Host machine with 16 GB of RAM. I currently have 1 Windows Server 2016 Essential Guest OS running with 7 GB of RAM assigned to it. When I try to create a Windows 10 Pro VM with 2 GB of RAM I get a memory error when…