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.
5 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