When Hyper-V on Server Core actually sucks
March 19, 2008 – 9:10 pmAfter seeing a post that the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V bits are now feature complete in the form of Release Candidate 0 (RC0), I decided its time to get a machine up and running to play with it.
I decided to go with a Server Core installation instead of the usual Full installation and it was great, I ended up at a command prompt after installation, reboot and logging on for the first time. So I proceeded to type in the following commands to configure Hyper-V:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
start /w ocsetup Microsoft-Hyper-V
A reboot later and my server is now enabled with the Hyper-V role. One problem, how do I configure a virtual machine? It seems like the only way is from another Windows Server 2008 machine running the Virtual Machine Manager. This kind of sucks big time as I don’t have another one to play with. Apparently Windows Vista will be able to run the Virtual Machine Manager at some point but right now it looks like my lean and mean Hyper-V server is going to have to become a bloated full installation.
9 Responses to “When Hyper-V on Server Core actually sucks”
You need help! I have installed Hyper-V on core with great results. Try this link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=518d870c-fa3e-4f6a-97f5-acaf31de6dce&DisplayLang=en
By Steve on Mar 26, 2008
Vista SP1 plus the management pack download. I suppose if MMC was installable on server core you’d think it was less secure? The purpose of server core, as far as I understand it is to increase security rather than be just cool. From what I’ve seen on the blogs it looks like you can use WMI locally to manage hyper-v. Otherwise, just using Vista SP1 with MMC & hyper-v tools sounds like a good idea to me personally, and it will keep your server core installation nice and ‘thin’.
By Shaun on Apr 21, 2008
Yeah I know I can do it from a Vista PC, but I don’t want to have to use another machine to set it up. Perhaps a live CD would be a good idea.
By Craig Nicholson on Apr 21, 2008
Hyper-V would be nice if you could use the current System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to control it. I mean wow Microsoft you out date a expensive piece of software in under a year.
By James Wilson on May 18, 2008
Hyper-V installation and management SUCKS…big time.
By ramsy on Dec 25, 2008
Yes Hyper-v Core SUCKS, I recently installed hyper-v core, and after several hours of deployment download several patches, useless microsoft documentation (at first place those documentation said “go to http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v and download the hyper-v Management console for Microsoft windows vista sp1, reboot and you can acces it” well that’s a compleate LIE), and reading the “virtual PC Guy’s” (http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy) and the Jhon Howard blog (http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2008/03/28/part-1-hyper-v-remote-management-you-do-not-have-the-requested-permission-to-complete-this-task-contact-the-administrator-of-the-authorization-policy-for-the-computer-computername.aspx), and runned his script to allow remotelly administrate the Virtual Machines (that script rocks!, but useless at the end), and after redo all the procedure manually, I can certainly access to the Hyper-v MMC.
Can create, modify and delete without problems but if i start a virtual machine, I cannot connet to it!, reviewed all the Documentation, event logs and no error/warning/info is reported.
Cannot paste the image of the screen but thanks to the less usefull, windows vista trick
I post the text version of this screen.
[Window Title]
Conexión a máquina virtual
[Main Instruction]
No se puede conectar a la máquina virtual. Vuelva a intentar la conexión. Si el problema persiste, póngase en contacto con el administrador del sistema.
¿Desea intentar conectar de nuevo?
[Conectar] [Salir]
(sorry it’s in spanish and says
[Window Title]
Connection to virtual machine
[Main Instruction]
Is not possible to connect to the virtual machine, if the problem persist, contact to your system administrator.
Do you want to try again?
[Connect] [Exit]
”
Hyper-v Sucks
By David on Mar 10, 2009
I think Hyper-V Server is awesome – been using it for months, there were some nic and video driver issues at first but no more. I have it running a desktop as a test but worked without issue so I moved it to production – maybe the best thing MS has done. I’m running the beta R2, it is also great. As far as managing goes, mcc does everything some hardware and there are countless sites with commandline info.
By Kirk on Apr 17, 2009
Similarly, hyper-v server is a un-usable product(or call it crap) out of the box. It requires you to search around and follow N-steps instructions (where N > 10) for how to configure and use it. My guess is that the team@Microsoft releases hyper-v server purely just for the release party. If there is a guy responsible for the usability of hyper-v server, he should be fired.
By Yi Wang on May 27, 2009