Hyper-V RC1 Available

In case you missed it - Hyper-V RC1 is now available for download. 

Full details can be found here: https://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/hyper-v-rc1-release-available-on-microsoft-download-center.aspx

And the release notes are available here: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3ed582f0-f844-40ba-b692-230845af1149&displaylang=en

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 21, 2008
  Ben, Maybe you could clear up a question that I have. All of the product lit for Win2008 has flavors with and without Hyper-V for both 64 and x86 versions. If Hyper-V is only for x64 versions, why does MS market x86 versions with and without? I find this totally confusing! Or is it that the beta / RC1 is only for x64 and the RTM will support x86? Thanks much.

• Anonymous
  May 23, 2008
  I upgraded to RC1 and when I did I noticed that my virtual now only has one processor when before it had two. Under settings it still has 2 virtual processors selected. Is there something else I need to do? I installed the integration services via the new disk feature. Do I also need to apply the patch to the virtual? Thanks!

• Anonymous
  May 25, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 26, 2008
  Ben, I hear you on not having an x86 version and understand why, but MS should remove all the lit and downloads (MSDN) of x86 Win2008 with and without Hyper-V

• Anonymous
  May 27, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 27, 2008
  I am a little confused about what one can do with the Primary VM.  Is this simply a special VM that has an additional role to manage Hyper-V or does this service all the Child VM's?  What I want to know is, should I leave the Primary VM for managing Hyper-V and service the child partitions and do nothing else with it or can I safely use it as a VM in its own right? Also if the primary VM goes down does it bring down all the child VMs?

• Anonymous
  May 27, 2008
  Any idea how to do a standby or hibernate once we enable Hyper-V?

• Anonymous
  May 28, 2008
  Standby and hibernate are disabled in Hyper-V: I learned this on my laptop I use for training. I would like that support added, though.  Sound reasonable?

• Anonymous
  May 29, 2008
  Is Windows 2000 supported as a guest? I read about that somewhere. I wish NT4 was supported also so we could move all guests to Hyper-V from Virtual Server.

• Anonymous
  May 30, 2008
  We are having the some problem with Hyper-V RC1 on DELL servers... :-( Any solution?

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2008
  bill - Such documentation will be forthcoming once we release the RTM version. Powershell / Andrew - The x86 version indicates whether it comes with the Hyper-V management tools or not. Bryant Likes - This should just continue to work.  What happens if you drop the VM settings down to one, boot and shutdown the VM and then change the settings back to two? ewdev - The parent partition should be used just for managing virtual machine.  If it goes down all the virtual machines go down too. Jack - No. Cheers, Ben

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2008
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• Anonymous
  June 05, 2008
  Correction to above post: The Guest OS is not 2003.  I'm sleepy...sorry. I've installed 2008 Standard (Full). Not sure if this makes a difference or not. I assumed MS would make Hyper-v compatible with its latest OS as a guest OS.

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2008
  Correction to above post: The Guest OS is not 2003.  I'm sleepy...sorry. I've installed 2008 Standard (Full). Not sure if this makes a difference or not. I assumed MS would make Hyper-v compatible with its latest OS as a guest OS.

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2008
  JWK - From the Virtual Machine Connection window, open the Action menu and select "Insert Integration Services Setup Disk..." Cheers, Ben

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2008
  Thank you.  That did the trick.  I didn't see that mentioned on the "Hypre-v RC1" page or on whatever installation page I found. That did the trick and now the VM has a working NIC.   Still don't see how to select a "Legacy NIC," but, for now it's not something I need to be concerned about.  I can read up on it when it's time for me to learn move about Hyper-v. Many thanks.   JKW

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2008
  wosully, Are you using Hyper-V Beta or Hyper-V RC1? If you are seeing this behavior after upgrading to Hyper-V RC1, please let me know. Thanks, Ranjith

• Anonymous
  June 13, 2008
  FYI, to add a Legacy NIC you edit the settings on the VM, at the top of the Settings screen is "Add Hardware".  Within that you can choose "Legacy Network Adapter".  This creates an emulated network adapter for the guest OS in the event that the integration drivers are not available or working correctly.  I.e. Windows XP can be setup on Hyper-V using a Legacy NIC.

• Anonymous
  June 16, 2008
  That seems to work fine on XP, 2003 32-bit - but I am having an issue getting a network setup on 64-bit 2003. The integration services disk doesn't like the 2003 installation until its SP2. Any ideas?