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Hyper-V part 1

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So I have begun working with Hyper-V, see my previous post here.  And it is really quiet an easy experience so far.  I have been able to install a few OS’s from the CD’s without any problems at all.  I have even used our network boot option to install an OS.  I have just downloaded the Virtual Machine Manager and I am going to check that out.  The most promising feature of the Beta seems to be that it can convert P2V and V2V.  I am really excited to use that and convert my existing machines to virtual ones.

One other really useful feature of Hyper-V is the Snapshot feature.  You can take a “Snapshot” of a VM to save the state it was in to be restored later.  This is really useful if you are doing a demo for example and you want to be able to restore it to the state it was in previously.  This is also great if you are working on something for a test and then want to revert it back after you are done testing something.

Another thing that I am finding very useful is that you can create as many VM’s as you want.  So I am not going to have my main OS run much of anything.  That way everything is running in a VM and if I need to get some memory back, I just shut a VM down.  And my main OS isn’t very bulky itself.

Just for the record, the machine I am using has 8 processors and 16 GB of RAM.  It also has 500 GB hard drive (which I’m sure I will need to upgrade).

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    June 03, 2008
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    June 05, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2008
    Just out of curiosity... On what motherboard do you have installed 8 CPUs?

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2008
    Robert, I am not sure what motherboard it is using.  But it is an HP xw6600 Workstation and has two Intel Xeon E5405 quad-core CPU's in it.

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    July 21, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2008
    Andoni, Yes I am using it just fine.  I believe those those are all set correctly.  I did have to make a change in the Bios, but everything has been working great.

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2008
    Tom, What change in the BIOS on the xw6600 did you make? I just grabbed the latest BIOS (1.24) and I don't see anywhere to turn on VT. Thanks, Greg

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2008
    Tom, Never mind... I found it. In the BIOS Security menu, under OS Security... Thanks