Hyper-V

Nested virtualization is available on Windows 10 build 19636 and later. As far as I understand, AMD support will be officially available as part of Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. Both products are expected in the second half of 2021. Enable Nested Virtualization Get the virtual machine intending to enable nested virtualization on using…

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Finally getting around to installing Windows Server 2016 (Standard, Desktop Experience) to use for application testing and upgrade plans this year.  I haven’t tested this release since Technical Preview 5 which had introduced the Nano edition. I plan to create a sysprep image of the virtual machine so I can quickly deploy the system in…

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Forgive my ignorance, but this just pissed me off. I downloaded Server 2012 R2 from TechNet. I created myself a nice Hyper-V guest VM on my Windows 8.1 x64 system. I then spent a good 30 minutes researching what the $@#! this error message meant when trying to power my VM on after attaching the downloaded ISO to it. I read everything from a permissions problem, path length problem, etc. I found the answer. Finally.

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Another great tool from Mark Russinovich at SysInternals called Disk2VHD I just discovered. Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that…

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