Cool Hyper-V Registry Settings

Andrew Auret is one of our hot shots MCS consultants in the UK. He emailed me earlier with some bits and pieces with regards to Hyper-V and sent me a really handy tip! Well like any handy tip I do like to pass it onto the community at large!

Cool registry entries in the Child guests under “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters” – Here you have access to:

HostName
PhysicalHostName
PhysicalHostnameFullyQualified
VirtualMachineName

You can write a custom script and use these to display as part of BGInfo. As I have !

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  PingBack from http://www.ditii.com/2008/04/03/hyper-v-registry-settings/

• Anonymous
  April 13, 2008
  This will help fill out my autocreation script. THANKS!!

• Anonymous
  October 16, 2008
  works fine under windows 2003 but it looks like under windows 2008 guests it always shows (none). is there a security setting we can change to make it work? http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=15205