I’m running Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2022 host. I recently discovered that my largest virtual machine was in “differencing” mode, i.e. only writing changes to checkpoint AVHDX files, also …
This has tripped me up twice, so time to blog it. Synology has an article on setting up Hyper-V for access from Synology:
This is arguably the most boring post I’ve ever written. No graphics, lots of references to my own unique environment. But this is the real world of backup and recovery …
Linux is hard. Stuff that is simple in Windows takes forever to figure out. In this case, I wanted to archive a Hyper-V virtual machine (export it and zip it …
I had been running a Windows 2012 R2 demo server on Azure. I’m no longer using it but want to keep an on-premises copy for reference. I tried and failed …
I’m testing the “Hyper-V Quick Create” version of Ubuntu 18.04 under Windows 10 Pro joined to a Windows domain. Had some difficulty at first connecting to a share on a …
I’m doing some housekeeping today on a Hyper-V server. Wanted to move some virtual machine configuration files from one drive to another.
I run a small Server 2012 R2 machine that functions primarily as a Hyper-V server. It has 12 GB of RAM. The guests do not use dynamic RAM. Today I …
Starting in September 2013, Windows Server 2012 R2 machines running as Hyper-V guests started issuing these warnings on reboot [8/18/2020: see comments—applies to 2012 but not R2]: Log Name: System …
This is the third in the series of almost annual articles about my experiences testing a Hyper-V restore. I’ve done this successfully in 2011 and 2012. Why repeat? To make …
