Managing Hyper-V from Windows 7

If you have installed the Windows 7 beta and want to use it to manage Hyper-V you will need to install the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 beta.  These can be downloaded from here:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82516c35-c7dc-4652-b2ea-2df99ea83dbb&displaylang=en

Once you have installed them you will need to still setup your client and server appropriately (I recommend using HVRemote).  One nice thing though is that the Windows 7 Hyper-V mangement UI can be used to manage both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 beta installations of Hyper-V.

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 14, 2009
  Is it possible to install the admin console for SCVMM 08 in Windows 7?

• Anonymous
  January 15, 2009
  Thanks for this info Ben!  Do you know if these will be included with Windows 7 when it is shipped?

• Anonymous
  January 16, 2009
  Damon Gross - I do not know how to install it - but I know if you have it installed on Vista and then upgrade to Windows 7 - it will continue to work. Brad S - To be honest - I do not know :-) I will ask around. Cheers, Ben

• Anonymous
  January 29, 2009
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• Anonymous
  February 04, 2009
  You can run Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2, which is the server equivalent of Win7

• Anonymous
  February 08, 2009
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