Hyper-V Server and multiple Essentials VM licensing
I have a couple of questions. 1) Can you run a bare metal Hypervisor type 1 with two VM's both running W19 Essentials. 2) Would Q1 be OK if each instance was a separate paid license. 3) Can there be more than one Essentials server in a domain. 4) Are…
hyper-v re-loads window after selecting window size
hyper-v re-loads window after selecting window size, when it reloads ubuntu is gone and i have a blank screen with other login options like xorg, x11rdp, ect. how do i stop this from happeneing? running win 10 (2004) windows and hyper-v updated. …
Hyper-V on W10Pro AMD Ryzen 7 no longer installs/boots CentOS 8 VM
Hi All, My W10Pro box recently upgraded to 2004 (19041.388). I am running CentOS 8 VM on an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X + 32GB RAM lab config. When performing regular maintenance yesterday (dnf update), the VM did not reboot ! Black screen with Hyper-V in the…
Hyper-V replication not deleting HRL files
Hi, I have an issue with Hyper-V replication whereby the destination HRL files are not being deleted and I just wanted to check if anyone else has a similar configuration and if they are seeing this issue. We replicate a number of VMs from a 2012 R2…
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Kerberos Replication failure - clocks are skewed
We had a planned power outage this weekend. I brought down the Virtual Machines in a controlled manner. Everything came back up operational except for my replication. When I tried to resume the replication it would throw an error stating the clocks…
Hyper-V on W10Pro AMD Ryzen 7 no longer installs/boots CentOS 8 VM
Hi All, My W10Pro box recently upgraded to 2004 (19041.388). I am running CentOS 8 VM on an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X + 32GB RAM lab config. When performing regular maintenance yesterday (dnf update), the VM did not reboot ! Black screen with Hyper-V in the…
Ethernet media disconnected after enabling Virtual Machine Platform
I enabled WSL and VMP from Windows Features. But after the restart, Windows showed my ethernet cable is disconnected. ipconfig shows the ethernet media is disconnected. It fixes itself after I disable Virtual Machine Platform (WSL2). WSL1 works…
How to re-activate Windows 10 after Hyper-V Upgrade from generation 1 and generation 2
I initially created a Generation 1 Hyper-V VM and installed Windows 10 Home. Got it activated (paid for the retail license, but have no product key and just an order number). I wanted to use some Generation 2 features (notably extra support for audio…
hyper-v increase the number of unsuccessful vm start attempts
Is there a way in hyper-v to increase the faulty starts of a vm? We are currently struggling with a firmware problem with RHEL / CentOS 8 (UEFI) concerning hyper-v, whereby the VM is started and after 5 unsuccessful attempts it is stopped. Is it possible…
Utilising wifi with ubutu and esp8266
I have Win10 Pro and am wanting to utilize Hyper V with Ubuntu to run the Tuya Convert terminal scripts and flash ESP8266 device with tasmota. I have been able to install Hyper V, login to Ubuntu, complete the tuya convert install but am not able to…
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Error expand fixed vhdx
Hi All, Anyone know was would be causing this error? I am trying to expand the drive but keep getting the error doesn't matter if the server is on or not also no checkpoints present. It's a fixed drive on Server 2012 R2.
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Failure to Boot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS 8 using Hyper-V 2016
When using RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 as the guest operating system on a virtual machine (VM) running on a Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 host, the VM in some cases fails to boot and returns to the GRUB boot menu. It sometimes takes up to 20 attempts before the…
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Hyper-V Installing windows 10 cannot be used with the mouse keyboard to operate the next step.
System: Windows 10 Pro 2004. Mouse keyboard: USB wireless key mouse. Model: surface book3. Description of the problem: Install second-generation hyper-V, windows 10. The installation interface appears, the mouse input to the virtual…
Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster NIC Teaming Qlogic 10GB NIC Virtual switch BSOD
We are using 3x DL380 G7 with Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster. In order to get more performance out of it we added 2 HPE NC523sfp 2P 10GB NICS per host. The ISCSI traffic worked as a charm. So we had a consultant in to try and use the 2 remaining free…
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Memory error starting VM with unused memory available.
I have a Windows Server 2016 Essential Host machine with 16 GB of RAM. I currently have 1 Windows Server 2016 Essential Guest OS running with 7 GB of RAM assigned to it. When I try to create a Windows 10 Pro VM with 2 GB of RAM I get a memory error when…
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Change disk volume name in Disk management of Hyper-V Cluster Disk's
Hi all, We have a Hyper-V Cluster of 9 Nodes, connect to a SAN Dell. By the time the cluster has implemented the person who configures it didn't make the disks volumes (volumes of a physical disk in disk management), Cluster Shared Volumes and SAN…
Change color of Remote Desktop App in Windows 10
Hi there, I installed remote desktop app in Windows to connect to remote resources. After I installed I see its in dark color. Is there a way we can change the color of that application alone in Windows 10 v 1909. I also tried to update in settings, I…
hyper-v greyed out. hyper-v says no SLAT. coreinfo say SLAT supported.
I have a Dell Optiplex 780 (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9650 @ 3.00GHz) running Windows 10 pro. When I try to enable virtualization (hyper-v setup) the hyper-v>hyperv platform>hyper-v hypervisor is greyed out. The systeminfo.exe shows two of…
Hyper-V showing much higher memory demand than displayed in guest OS
I have enabled dynamic memory allocation on my VMs recently, and as the title suggests, I'm very confused with the "memory demand" value shown in Hyper-V Manager. For example, I have an Ubuntu 18.04.1LTS guest created using quick create (so…
For Windows 10 Pro and up, will there soon be a replacement for RemoteFX in Hyper-V?
Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this particular question, but I noticed that RemoteFX has been somewhat deprecated in recent Windows 10 updates, as you cannot attach a RemoteFX video adapter to Hyper-V virtual machines anymore. It…