Comments on: Installing Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta on VMware Server 2.0

By: egilschmidt

egilschmidt — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:12:55 +0000

I am currently running Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 x64 in Vmware Workstation v7. This weekend I plan on testing a guest vm on Hyper-V. I download the ISO from MSDN. One advantage of installing Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is that is automatically installs the role and is running as core server.
Rich, Great Doc

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:33:40 +0000

Donovan,

Thanks for the thoughts on running Hyper-V on VMware Server.

Future version of Veeam Monitor sounds promising! Keep us in the loop.

By: donovanjohnson

donovanjohnson — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:33:29 +0000

It would seem that it should function, since you can install ESX on workstation in the same fashion, complete with running VM's. So I am a bit clueless as to why creating the partition would fail. I would caution you though that it will take a really powerful system to accomplish all that I said, and you would need to do some tweaking with your virtual network, using RDP [windows] or VNC [Linux] or Putty [CLI via SSH access] in order to connect to the running VM's, so it may not be all that well thought out as far as delivery. Another option may be to try our Veeam Monitor product hear in a month or two. We have a console builtin to that application that allows for a RDP session — similar to VI client from VMware that can connect to … It has been working well for a number of our VMware customers. More and more people are getting excited about it to that point where new initiatives are being firmed up. Can't give specifics… but let's just say “It's in the water”. This may be a viable alternative for accessing those systems [as well as a great deal more data about the VM's] once the partition issue is dealt with. I will be experimenting with this in my lab and will let you know how it goes.

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:33:40 +0000

Donovan,

Thanks for the thoughts on running Hyper-V on VMware Server.

Future version of Veeam Monitor sounds promising! Keep us in the loop.

By: donovanjohnson

donovanjohnson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:33:29 +0000

By: Verbosity

Verbosity — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:34:34 +0000

My test so far using VMWare workstation 6.5:

1) Created a Windows Server 2008 server, ran dcpromo to create a new domain, added hyper-v remote management tools.

2) Created a Hyper-V standalone server. Did all the configuring and looked good.

3) Every time I tried create a guest, the system fails to create the partition.

Been searching the web, and everyone who installs hyper-v on VMWare never actually installs any guests. Adding the role to server 2008 specifically states hyper-v will not function in a virtualized enviroment.

I think the reason for this are obvious, but I had to confirm it myself (since no one else had the guts to put up a test run with installing a guest).

However, it would have been nice - guess I'll have to scrounge a machine up for making a hyper-v standalone server.

By: MCSE to MCITP

MCSE to MCITP — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:54:22 +0000

Yeah… Any “results???”

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