Virtualization

Fix for VMWare Virtual Machine ‘Failed to Lock the File’ Error

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to Windows Reference RSS feed Thanks for visiting!Scary moment occurred last week when one of my virtual machines failed to start from VMWare Workstation. The reported error was “failed to lock the file”.

Hyper-V:No Network when installing Windows Server 2008 Core as Guest OS

When you install Windows Server 2008 as a Guest OS on a Windows Server 2008 running Hyper-V role, you may find this guest OS without any network when booted up. This could happen if the Integration Services is not installed on the Guest OS. The Integration Services installs the Guest OS components as in any [...]

Hyper-V: How to clone a Virtual machine (VM)

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualisation doesn’t offer an out of the box option to clone an existing Virtual Machine (VM) into a new one. However, this doesn’t  mean it is not possible or is very difficult. In fact, its quite easy and simple to clone a Virtual Machine in Hyper-V

Hyper-V: How to create a new Virtual Machine

Once Hyper-V Role is enabled on your Windows Server 2008, new Virtual Machines can be created from the Hyper-V Manager. The list of guest operating systems supported on Hyper-V at the moment are

Hyper-V: 64-bit Hypervisor based Virtualization in Windows Server 2008

Hyper-V is a 64-bit only Virtualization Technology in Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V is a 64-bit native hypervisor based Virtualization and requires processors that support virtualization. Needless to say it is not supported on the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2008.