{"id":10513,"date":"2010-04-08T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10513"},"modified":"2010-04-08T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:04:00","slug":"my-current-hyper-v-writing-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10513","title":{"rendered":"My Current Hyper-V & Writing Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m working on a couple of writing projects after work at the moment and I thought I\u2019d talk a little bit about how I\u2019m doing my lab work.  I\u2019ve previously talked about how I\u2019m using Hyper-V on my Dell E6500 laptop.  With a few projects going, you can imagine how far I\u2019m pushing it!<\/p>\n

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At the moment, I\u2019m using two laptop.  My old Sony Vaio is running Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2007.  Why not 2010?  I\u2019m using a customised ribbon that is version specific.  That allows me to use all the formatting that the publisher requires.<\/p>\n

My Dell E6500 (Dual Core CPU, 8GB RAM) is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter edition from an 7200 RPM 250GB eSATA hard disk.  Normally it boots from Windows 7 using the internal hard disk.  But I\u2019ve set up the BIOS to boot from eSATA first if it is found.  On there, I\u2019ve enabled the Hyper-V role, configured the machine as a domain controller and installed VMM 2008 R2.  None of that is good production practice!  DNS is also enabled on the parent partition and uses forwarders for Internet name resolution.<\/p>\n

The laptops are on my wifi network at home.  Hyper-V does not support wifi for virtual machine networking.  However, there\u2019s a well known way to create an internal virtual network and bridge it with the wifi NIC in the parent partition.<\/p>\n

I started out keeping my VM\u2019s in a folder on the C: drive.  However, 250GB runs out pretty quick.  Compressing the VMM library did help a bit here.  I ended up using a USB 2.0 external drive for additional space.  Sure the performance sucks, but I\u2019m doing lab work, not production server hosting!<\/p>\n

The laptop has 8GB of RAM.  I want to make the very most of every MB of RAM.  So I enable RDP on my VM\u2019s. That way I don\u2019t even have to log into the Hyper-V laptop once things are up and running.<\/p>\n

This allows me to work away on the documentation on my Vaio.  I can RDP from there onto my VM\u2019s which are on the same network (with static IP\u2019s).  I\u2019m using a tool called MWSnap to capture screenshots to TIF files.  They auto save to a shared folder on the parent partition, which I copy over to the VAIO every now and then.<\/p>\n

As much as I can squeeze out of this, I\u2019m realistically looking at deploying more hardware.  I\u2019m still going back and forth on pulling the trigger on that purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m working on a couple of writing projects after work at the moment and I thought I\u2019d talk a little bit about how I\u2019m doing my lab work.  I\u2019ve previously talked about how I\u2019m using Hyper-V on my Dell E6500 laptop.  With a few projects going, you can imagine how far I\u2019m pushing it! At … Continue reading “My Current Hyper-V & Writing Lab”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,186,108,117],"class_list":["post-10513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-office","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t