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Converting some virtual images form our ESX 3.5 environment to a demo machine did have some impact on on my demo machine. The demo machine running the RTM bit of Server 2008 64bits with Hyper-V for some initial testing, did surprise my happily. Fast responses and 10Gb network adapters for internal communication works great and fast. Just a few things I bumped into installing Hyper-V, Hyper-V has a problem with the non-US regional settings. If your installing Hyper-V and don’t have the regional setting to English US the role will not install. Changing the regional settings back to US-English fixed the problem for me.

Installing VMWare workstation 6.0.2 on the demo machine, Server 2008,  was no problem at all. It run fine until you start a virtual machine inside VMWare:-(. The Virtual machine will boot and after 30 sec in the boot process you will get a blue screen on Server 2008, error code 0×0000124. Just uninstall the Hyper-V role, reboot, and the problem is solved.

Hyper-V is still in beta so no hard feelings there. I think Hyper-V alone is a good candidate for server consolidation, in combination with Virtual Machine Manager it could be a lot more for less, Hyper-V only costs $28 extra on top of Server 2008.

Regards,
Walter Eikenboom
http://weblogwally.spaces.live.com

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