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Have these ISO been created correctly?
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downloaded straight from volume license center, do they need any additional work to be used for hyper v?<br />
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Thanks
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the image is fine, i burnt it to disc and put it in the machine to see if i could access it using the physical drive, if i click it in the host machine loads up striaght away, but again, no luck with the virtual guest<br />
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i downloaded a second copy too, no luck, it just wont boot my ISOs!<br />
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ive downloaded a VHD from microsoft a 180 evaluation, it seems to be the full shebang, if i register this trial with my activation key am i good to go?<br />
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i downloaded from here <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtual-hard-drive.aspx" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtual-hard-drive.aspx</a>
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found out the answer<br />
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<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb738381" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb738381</a><br />
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Q. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Can I activate the VHD?<br />
A. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No, you cannot activate the VHD. VHD images are created for test and evaluation purposes only. Do not put this image in a production environment.<br />
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back to the drawing board trying to get these ISOs/Discs to run!
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You don't need to boot to .ISO to load an OS on a VM.<br />
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Another option is to burn the ISO to DVD then present it to the VM via &quot;Capturing the DVD Drive&quot;. &nbsp;It was pass through the DVD drive into the VM as if it had a physical CD/DVD drive attached.<br />
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i downloaded a third ISO from VLC and its worked!<br />
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phew!!!!!<br />
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cheers
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:<br />
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Accepted answer: 0 points for awilderbeast's comment <a href="http:/Q_27195646.html#36195290" rel="ugc">http:/Q_27195646.html#36195290</a><br />
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for the following reason:<br />
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found ISO
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Objecting on behalf of TSGITDept:36191676<br />
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He suggested Downloading it again.
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fair point although i downloaded a different ISO he still suggested downloading again
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hi all, im just in the process of creating my first virutal machine, i have the machien ready and have chosen the ISO to boot from and added it to my disk drive<br />
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see screen below<br />
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so when i turn the machine on i get Boot failed insert media etc message<br />
ive tried other isos just to test it all fail<br />
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anyone know whats wrong, or if its possible to boot from the a USB plugged into the host machine?<br />
i havea &nbsp;usb 2008 install i know works as i craeted the host from it)<br />
<br />
Thanks for your help<br />
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hi all, im just in the process of creating my first virutal machine, i have the machien ready and have chosen the ISO to boot from and added it to my disk drive

see screen below

so when i turn the machine on i get Boot failed insert media etc message
ive tried other isos just to test it all fail

anyone know whats wrong, or if its possible to boot from the a USB plugged into the host machine?
i havea  usb 2008 install i know works as i craeted the host from it)

Thanks for your help

Hyper V - cant install a virtual machine from ISO downloaded from MS volume center

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