Hyper-V Virtualization
How to Run CentOS in Windows 8 Hyper-V Quickly
A guide to install CentOS Linux in a Windows 8 Hyper-V virtual machine fast. Unlike previous versions, Windows 8 Hyper-V makes CentOS installation easy...
Complete Server Setup with a Microsoft Surface and Hyper-V
For those reading my posts on the Microsoft Surface, I have mixed feelings about the device. It has a great form factor. An awesome set of inputs (keyboard, mouse and touch) all in one easy to carry form factor. Sure, I have ha...
Install Cloudera CDH4 Hadoop in Microsoft Windows 8 Hyper-V
Microsoft is pushing it’s own HDInsight server, and it has a lot of resources behind it. With that said, Cloudera is probably one of the best known Hadoop shops out there. Cloudera’s “free” platform is w...
How to Run Ubuntu in Windows 8 Hyper-V Quickly
Today we are back with another quick guide. This one will focus on how to install Ubuntu on a Windows 8 desktop quickly using Hyper-V. Windows 7 XP mode was great for running Windows XP. For other operating systems, users often...
How to Install Windows 8 Hyper-V in Under 3 Minutes
Many of this site’s users have home labs for IT testing and certification. Microsoft threw these users a huge bonus with Windows 8, and something easily worth learning to deal with the “metro” UI. Microsoft...
Dynamic Memory and Hyper-V Guide in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
One of the biggest new features in Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V users is the new Dynamic Memory functionality. Instead of partitioning physical memory into separate silos for each virtual machine,...
Hyper-V Networking and Virtual Switches Overview
Microsoft Hyper-V, which is a very common virtualization platform for Windows based servers especially with the Windows Server 2008 R2 role, utilizes a different method of networking virtual machines than Microsoft’s VirtualP...
Hyper-V Disk Pass-Through Quick Guide
After the recent article on passing controllers through to ESXi virtual machines, I did get some questions around pass-through in Hyper-V. First off, it works a bit differently in Hyper-V, but you can still expose raw disks and...
IPMI Remote Reboot Upon Kernel Panic – Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, and WHS
Over the weekend I experienced an oddly inaccessible network share on a Windows Home Server instance running in Hyper-V using Windows Server 2008 R2. Unfortunately I was not at my desk at the time but did have 3G access and a l...
Secure Windows 7 VM on a WHS Server in Hyper-V
A simple guide to installing a Secure Windows 7 installation on a Windows Home Server running Hyper-V. This allows a secure Win 7 VM to be hosted on the server.
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