Dugie just pointed this out.  There are two new trial VHDs available: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 These trials are built for Virtual Server, but can be used with Virtual PC.  Dugie is also maintaining an unofficial list of all trial virtua...

Originally Microsoft Hyper-V only included the command-line tools for configuring iSCSI devices. Now, anyone who has had to use these tools (namely iscsicli) will tell you that they are incredibly complicated and are very hard to use.  Now with Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 we have included the gra...

Mike Kolitz has just released "WIM2VHD".  This is a tool that allows you to take the WIM file off of a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 install DVD and turn it directly into a virtual hard disk that can be used by Hyper-V, Virtual Server or Virtual PC.  Not only is this handy ...

In Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD support is now part of the platform.  This means that you do not need to enable Hyper-V to mount and manipulate virtual hard disks.  You can mount virtual hard disks directly on your Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 system in two ways.  The ...

Hyper-V logs a lot of useful information if you need to diagnose a problem, so I thought I would put together a little post explaining where you should be looking.  The first thing to know is that all Hyper-V event logs are stored in the Event Viewer under "Applications and Services Logs", "Mic...

I recently was setting up a Home Server on top of Hyper-V (Note: this is not a supported configuration, so if you wish to do the same - be it on your head) and had to decide between using physical disks directly attached to the virtual machine, or using fixed size virtual hard disks.  I had 5 S...

After posting about this last week - Tore has been working hard and has now release version 4.1 of his Hyper-V Monitor Gadget.  Key changes include: Added new server manager for easier management Added a Large size (undocked) theme with larger font Clicking on a host now starts Remote Desktop t...

The Windows Server 2008 R2 beta is here! (keep an eye here for details on how to get it)  This is a significant release for Hyper-V and this beta contains a number of new features and capabilities. First and foremost – Live Migration is here!  You can now move virtual machines inside...

People occasionally contact me and ask me how to fix a virtual hard disk that they have which is reporting corruption.  The short answer is: "Run data recovery tools inside the virtual machine." For the long answer we need to look at how the virtual hard disk is structured.  Reading from t...

Today I spent some time working on a relatively complex virtual machine setup (private domain + App-V server + App-V sequencing virtual machine + SCCM + SCOM).  I had this all running on Hyper-V configured on a server core computer off in another room - and I was managing it from my Vista deskt...