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Hyper-V and domain joining

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So, time for the inevitable questions --
1) Can we install Vail in a Hyper-V R2 VM as a guest?
2) Can we finally join it to a domain for those of us with existing home domains....please?
Monday, April 26, 2010 6:29 PM
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1. You should be able to. However, as it is in beta, it may or may not work.
2. No.
http://www.tomontech.com- Marked as answer by Jonas Svensson -FST- Monday, April 26, 2010 7:01 PM
Monday, April 26, 2010 6:34 PMModerator
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1. You should be able to. However, as it is in beta, it may or may not work.
2. No.
http://www.tomontech.com- Marked as answer by Jonas Svensson -FST- Monday, April 26, 2010 7:01 PM
Monday, April 26, 2010 6:34 PMModerator -
I havent done it in Hyper-V but have in VMWare Workstation and Server and it works fine.Monday, April 26, 2010 7:15 PMModerator
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What about using Microsoft's Hyper V on the base os can that component be added to run virtual machines, or would virtual server or vmware server still be the answer?Monday, April 26, 2010 9:05 PM
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Installing Windows Home Server in a virtualized machine will likely be unsupported. It may work for you, it may not. If you're expert with Hyper-V, VMWare, etc. you should be able to figure out any issues.
I expect it to work, however.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Monday, April 26, 2010 9:07 PMModerator -
if that was directed to me I was wondering is the WHS can be a Virtual machine host. I do it currently with WHS1 and Vmware server.
Was hoping to be able to install Hyper V on Vail to run my vms.
Monday, April 26, 2010 9:15 PM -
You will not be able to install Hyper-V on Vail.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Monday, April 26, 2010 10:16 PMModerator -
Microsoft has invested a lot into virtualizing its internal test environments, and a significant share of our testing occurs on virtual machines. At the moment I cannot make any comments about whether it will be a supported configuration or not, but running Vail as a HyperV guest has worked just fine for quite some time now.
Monday, April 26, 2010 10:19 PM -
Cool! Good to know, Bulat. Or at least to have out in the open (I've never believed in huge rooms filled with racks of PCs for testing :) ).
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Monday, April 26, 2010 10:39 PMModerator -
I've just installed on VMWare Workstation 6.5 and it threw some errors that I have to review however ESXi 4.0 installed without problems.
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I have it running in ESXi 4.0 (It's free BTW) with 2 Virtual CPU's 2GB of memory and 2 160GB drives, and one Intel E1000 Virtual NIC.
It works flawless and took about 30minutes to install.
When it came up I installed the VMTools which also installed fine. I was able to go into the console and add the 2nd disk to the pool.
Remember Vail is a 64Bit OS so your Host must be able to support 64Bit OS's. I know ESX 4.0, and Hyper-V support 64Bit Guest machines, not sure about any others.
Pugsly0014Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:37 PM