Hyper-V and Vista
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net



Today I built out 8 more servers for our dev team. We have a blade server
hosting all of this with Hyper-V. Here's what my picture looks like...

I log into my Vista work machine, use terminal services to log into the blade
and open up Hyper-V Manager. From there I connect to the machine via Hypervisor
console.

Essentially, I have a remote window inside of a remote window.  Naturally,
mouse and keyboard key sends are at less-than-desireable speeds. My hopeful
solution: Hyper-V management console on Vista.

Over the last year or so I have been hearing talks about how one could not
install Hypervisor on Vista so naturally my hopes were already somewhat
crushed. Despite the dire situation, I started the search (thanks Google) and
much to my suprise, with Vista SP1 Microsoft released a patch
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952627[KB952627]) to install the Hyper-V
Console through Windows Update (thank you Microsoft).

Here are the links (Windows authenticity check required)

Vista x86
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a46d0047-e383-4688-9449-83373226126a&amp;displaylang=en&amp;Hash=gUz0Srl8YL8V57oEvToZsTEga7tWBKPgtjBsGst7kRZwF96bbYMMRWbS3gQJnXWBzg24xhBYw6Zlw3ZNZ8C%2bgg%3d%3d

Vista x64
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f10e848f-289c-4e04-8786-395371f083bf&amp;displaylang=en&amp;Hash=AXftxujSp7eaWx3FURGL1rsoJAoqt0jtSsZfn/Ppq%2bSQXBuWEJ2010LWN8to%2b9azkVXBA/cXS3ONLqYZtBoCDA%3d%3d

Once the management console is installed, you should be able to remotely
connect to your server with Hyper-V.

Once again, thank you Microsoft for a very satisfying product.


Category:Microsoft

Category:Windows

Category:Virtualization


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