If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to Windows Reference RSS feed Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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

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 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.

Installing and enabling the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2008 Core installation  (64-bit) takes a few commands from the command-line. Click here for a step by step procedure to install and configure on a Windows Server 2008 Full installation. If you have installed your Windows Server 2008 from a recent media download or shipped by [...]