I set up a few templates over the last few evenings, Windows 2008, Vista and Windows 2003.\u00a0 I sysprepped them today and exported the VM’s.\u00a0 I’ve noticed some funnies in the exports – the confix.xml retains the path to the VHD of the original machine.\u00a0 This cause some problems when I copied the exports and re-imported them as new machines.\n<\/p>\n
My lab machine has only so much disk and I’ve way more testing that I need to do.\u00a0 I decided to use the VHD’s of my sysprepped templates as parents<\/em> for differencing<\/em> disks.\u00a0 These differencing disks are what my VM’s use.\u00a0 The idea is that the child disk stores on the differences between the VM that I run and the parent disk of the template.\n<\/p>\n I deployed them like this:<\/p>\n Simple and diskspace economic.\u00a0 I can deploy more VM’s and they core OS is stored only once.\u00a0 It’s perfect for a lab.\u00a0 Obviously it’s going to be slower if running plenty of VM’s off the parent.\u00a0 You wouldn’t do this for production but it’s fine for a lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I set up a few templates over the last few evenings, Windows 2008, Vista and Windows 2003.\u00a0 I sysprepped them today and exported the VM’s.\u00a0 I’ve noticed some funnies in the exports – the confix.xml retains the path to the VHD of the original machine.\u00a0 This cause some problems when I copied the exports and … Continue reading “Hyper-V Test Lab Continued”<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-9080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v"],"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\n