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My experience with Hyper-V
By Ilija | June 7, 2008 | Subscribe to RSS Feed
Yesterday I installed Windows Server 2008 on the server at my college, as part of my final work. My task was to install Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V and few virtual operating systems, and to enable communication between those systems so my colleague can install IPSec between OSs, as part of her final work. I downloaded Windows Server 2008 x64 operating system from Microsoft site (trial version), an brought few operating systems on CD (Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000, Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop).
First problem was Debian already installed on machine, and assistants working in the lab, because they wanted to keep Debian installed on server. After two hours of trying to make dual boot, I formatted drive with Debian 
, and installed Windows Server 2008. Then, I installed Hyper-V role, but hypervisor failed to start. After searching for solution on internet, I saw that I have to enable virtualization in BIOS, so I did that. After rebooting, hypervisor successfully started, but service for managing virtual machines failed to start. Again, few searches on search engine and I saw solution: keyboard language must be English, and everything has to be set to US-EN. That’s stupid. I had everything set to Croatian . OK, I set everything to US-EN and everything started working just fine.
Then, I added two virtual machines, Ubuntu and XP, and they worked just fine. After adding one more XP, I had a problem. I could not start two XPs at the same time, because I would always got an error saying that some file is being used by another process. What process? Why? I don’t know.
Then I said: OK, no problem, my colleague can install IPSec between host OS and XP. But, I couldn’t find network connection in virtual machine. Network Connections in Control Panel was empty. I tried everything, internal, external network… nothing helped.
After that, I installed WS2k8 as another virtual machine, and I got one connection. Great! I gave IP address to virtual machine, and I tried ping from host OS to that machine, and got a message that a destination host is unreachable. But I had 0% loss, all packets that I sent I got back. Again, I don’t know why.
I posted this problem on three forums, and I’m waiting for an answer. If you know solution, please post it in comments.
Tags: 2008, hyper-v, role, virtualization, windows server
Category: windows server 2008 |
September 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Hi, if you have just copied windows installations, they have that same SID. Download NewSID and change it on one of the machines. Or both