{"id":19,"date":"2008-01-24T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/archives\/19"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:31:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T11:31:35","slug":"microsoft-hyper-v-a-first-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/archives\/19","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Hyper-V – A first impression"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Microsoft is working on a answer towards VMware’s virtualization succes. The answer is called Microsoft Hyper-V and is currently in Beta.<\/p>\n

Although ive seen this stuff at Microsoft IT Forum in Barcelone last december, i felt like playing around with it myself so\u00a0i grabbed a HP DL360 with dual quad core and 16Gb mem to test this new toy. So i installed Windows Server Hyper-V RC1.\u00a0Here’s a little impression with some screenshots.<\/p>\n

Please note: Although Windows server 2008 will install on a 32bit CPU based computer, Hyper-V itself needs a 64bit CPU.<\/em>After the installation i checked the system properties and ‘my computer properties’ dialog:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Winversion\"<\/a><\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Next thing to do was install the Hyper-V role:<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u00a0\"Hypers<\/a> \"Add<\/a>\u00a0\"Add<\/a>\u00a0
\n\u00a0\"Hyper-V<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\"Add<\/a>\u00a0\"Confirmation\"<\/a>
\n\u00a0\"Installing<\/a>\u00a0\"After<\/a>\u00a0\"Installation<\/a><\/p>\n

After\u00a0succesfully installing the Hyper-V role, it was time to launch the management interface.\u00a0Since\u00a0i only have one physical host, i\u00a0didn’t use “Microsoft System Center – Virtual Server Manager” which will give me much more management power, including hot stuff like “Live migration” (yes, thats the same as VMotion).<\/p>\n

Here we go:<\/p>\n

\"Start<\/a>\u00a0\"EULA\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Now let’s create a virtual machine!<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>\u00a0\"Before<\/a>\u00a0\"Name<\/a>
\n\"Memory\"<\/a>\u00a0\"Config<\/a>\u00a0\"Config<\/a>
\n\"Config<\/a>\u00a0\"Install<\/a>\u00a0\"Completing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now back to our management tool:<\/p>\n

\"Back<\/a>\u00a0\"Edit<\/a>\u00a0\"Start!!!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After starting the virtual machine, i received a nice error message. I didn’t enable the right virtualisation options in the HP BIOS:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Start<\/a>\u00a0\"Error<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

So i adjusted the BIOS setting (picture will be available later) and now Hyper-V was happy and started:<\/p>\n

\"Starting<\/a>\u00a0\"Settting<\/a>\u00a0\"Copy<\/a>
\n\"Wow,<\/a>\u00a0\"Hmm\u2026\"<\/a>\u00a0\"Lets<\/a><\/p>\n

In the end i installed the following virtual machines:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Windows\u00a0XP SP2<\/li>\n
  2. Windows 2003 R2 SP2<\/li>\n
  3. Windows 2008 Core<\/li>\n
  4. Windows 2008 Enterprise Full<\/li>\n
  5. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Then i\u00a0download the latest MS DOS\u00a0and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups but since i was out of time i couldnt install this, too bad \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

    A few things about this beta:
    \n– When adjusting the virtual memory for a virtual machine, the wizard would let me add a maximum of 16483Mb which is the exact amount of physical memory installed in the host system, doesn’t Windows 2008 and Hyper-V itself use any memory? Starting this experimental virtual machine resulted in an error (obviously)
    \n– This beta required the VM to be off in order to add hardware. Only the mounted CD\/ISO could be changed while the VM was running.
    \n– Did you know the host operating system (windows 2008) on which Hyper-V is installed also use the hypervisor? I still don’t know how this works but it sounds interessting, anyone knows more about this cool idea?
    \n– I had some spare minutes and tried to get the network card running in SuSE linux enterprise but yast didn’t find anything. The only way to communicate with this VM was to build an ISO and mount it in the Hyper-V manager and the virtual machine itself (mount \/dev\/cdrom \/mnt\/cd)
    \n– The snapshot technologie works really well. I started a filecopy, took a snapshot and during the filecopy i made the virtual machine crash (BSOD). After restoring the snapshot, the filecopy would just go on like nothing happend.. cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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