VM /ETC

One link lead to another until I happened to stumble across this great gadget for a Windows desktop sidebar created by Tore Lervik. I haven’t had a chance to personally use it yet, but I figured it was worth posting about to let VM /ETC readers know it was available. Here’s some info about the gadget from Tore’s mindre.net page:

“I’ve created a sidebar gadget so I can see what the Hyper-V server is doing from my workstation. The gadget can list multiple servers at once and also support vmconnect when double clicking on a VM.

PS: The gadget uses WMI to connect to the server so the user need remote WMI access (Step 5) on the Hyper-V server.”

The Step 5 reference and associated link are to a How to post titled “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’” which was written by a blogger named John Howard. That post is about configuration steps necessary to enable remote administration of Hyper-V servers in a workgroup and is also worth checking out. Obviously, a subset of the same configuration is needed to make Tore’s gadget work too!

Release notes and download links are available at Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar

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