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is it a 2008 server with a Hyper-v role, or did you install hyper-v and the hosts on the server ?
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is it a 2008 server with a Hyper-v role, or did you install hyper-v and the hosts on the server ?

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Can you elaborate on that I am sure I understand the question
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Can you elaborate on that I am sure I understand the question

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Various I will confirm that they are installed and try again.<br />

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Various I will confirm that they are installed and try again.


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I have selected to shutdown host operating system in the options of each virtual machine. &nbsp;That way when the VM host was rebooted all the guests are shut down. This works however I receive an error that the server was shutdown unexpectedly when I log back onto the quests. &nbsp; &nbsp;Is this normal? &nbsp; &nbsp;Is there a better way to do this or just ignore the error?<br />

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I have selected to shutdown host operating system in the options of each virtual machine.  That way when the VM host was rebooted all the guests are shut down. This works however I receive an error that the server was shutdown unexpectedly when I log back onto the quests.    Is this normal?    Is there a better way to do this or just ignore the error?


Restarting A Hyper-V Server - Gracefull showdowns of host

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.