Hyper-V Configuration on Windows 2008

Sep 22, 2014

 Miscellaneous

•  HYPER-V

Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based Windows server developed by Microsoft. It enables platform virtualization on x86-64 systems. In this tutorial, we will introduce how to install and configure Hyper-V in Windows 2008 R2.

Environment

Processor: Intel（R）Xeon（R）CPU  E5645 @2.40GHz

Memory: 24GB

OS: Windows2008 R2 Enterprise

Hyper-V Installation

1. First, make sure your OS supports Hyper-V. You can either check it in BIOS or download CPU-V to detect.
2. Run server manager, click “Add Roles”, and check “Hyper-V”.
3. Click start menu and run Hyper-V manager.

Parameters Configuration

Click start menu and run Hyper-V manager.

Click “New”, there are three options, respectively “Virtual Machine”, “Hard Disk” and “Floppy Disk”.

Below “New”, there is an option “Hyper-V Settings” which consists of “Server” and “User”. You can set virtual disk path, virtual machine path, keyboard and mouse according to your preferences.

Let’s take a look at “Virtual Network Manager”, which includes “Virtual Networks” and “Global Network Settings”. There are three types of “Virtual Networks”:

• “External”: LAN connection
• “Internal”: Ad hoc connection
• “Private”: no network connection

We can add a virtual network.

Virtual Machine Installation

Run new virtual machine wizard.

Allocate 1G memory.

Configure network connection.

Create a new virtual hard disk or choose an existing virtual hard disk.

Choose the Installation options.

Finished.

Now, you can run the virtual machine.