I am currently testing the waters using Hyper-V Server 2008 (the free standalone). I have been able to use the Hyper-V Manager from another Windows 2008 Server to configure and create working guest VMs. There are a couple of issues that I have noticed:
1. I cannot RDP into the host, yet I can use the Hyper-V Manager, view the Event Log (admittedly I have not had a chance to drill down the log yet), Ping and share resources from it. Is this by design or is something wrong? The server is a member of the domain. RDP enabled. Firewall Off. I had a couple of issues getting things to work (Cold boot after updating BIOS VM settings, update NIC driver) but the initial install worked flawlessly.
2. Is it possible to use VMConnect (or any other method) from the host to connect to a guest VM from the host?
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Quick and dirty solution for question 1, RDP'ing into the Host Hyper-V: (Firewall was apparently not disabled on host)
command line to disable the firewall:
netsh firewall set opmode disable
Still need answer to #2. Although I am starting to think you can't connect to the Guest screen from the host. You maybe forced to use a separate Windows Server 2008 or Vista / Win 7 machine to do that.
You should be able to open the Hyper-V VM from the Hyper-V Manager. Have you installed the integration
components?
http://support.microsoft.c
http://blogs.technet.com/j
Yes, the integration components are installed.
I would like to be able to go to the Hyper-V Server 2008 host machine, where the host and guest vm reside on, which looks like a DOS screen (see screen shot) and from that machine open the VM windows of the guest machines. Don't want to have to go to a second machine and use Hyper-V Manager from another machine to access the guest VM machines.
Screen shot of Hyper-V Server 2008 desktop
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by: dariusgPosted on 2009-06-09 at 17:17:16ID: 24587133
First thing you need to do is install the Integration Components on the Hyper-V VM.
http://technet.microsoft.c
Second if that doesn't work go to the Settings of the VM then install a Legacy Adapter instead of the Network Adapter make sure you remove the Network Adapter before installing a Legacy Adapter.