I got a new laptop yesterday.\u00a0 It\u2019s primary role will be to run Hyper-V and VMM so I can use it for user group events, various speaking engagements, writing work, etc.\u00a0 It\u2019s a pretty powerful machine:<\/p>\n
The first thing I did last night was order an additional 4GB of RAM to max it out at 8GB.\u00a0 That\u2019ll allow me to run lots of VM\u2019s.\u00a0 I had a few options on how I would build the OS on this machine.\u00a0 It will be running Windows Server 2008 R2 but I also want to use it for normal stuff, i.e. Windows 7.<\/p>\n
I considered setting up a boot-from-VHD option:<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when I remembered I had another 160GB 7.6K SATA drive.\u00a0 I\u2019ve installed Windows 7 on the 160GB drive and Windows Server 2008 R2 on the 250GB drive.\u00a0 That gives me two isolated environments.<\/p>\n
First thing I did was check the BIOS was up to date (A16).\u00a0 Then I enabled CPU assisted virtualisation and DEP in the BIOS.\u00a0 Windows 7, Live Essentials, Microsoft Security Essentials, Office, Visio, Adobe Reader, Faststone Image Viewer all went onto the Windows 7 x64 build.\u00a0 I went x64 so the machine could use all 8GB RAM instead of 3.4 GB.\u00a0 Dell had the Windows 7 x64 drivers which I installed.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Next went Windows Server 2008 R2.\u00a0 Again, I used the Windows 7 x64 drivers.\u00a0 I set up the machine as a DC with DNS (not to be done on Hyper-V in production).\u00a0 I enabled the Windows Desktop Experience.\u00a0 I then enabled Hyper-V.\u00a0 Perfect \u2013 no issues.\u00a0 I set up an internal virtual network.\u00a0 I\u2019ve given it a static IP that is not used anywhere else.\u00a0 That\u2019ll be the IP of that LAN.\u00a0 I set up the Wifi NIC on the laptop and then installed RRAS and configured it to be a router.\u00a0 The three \u201cNIC\u2019s\u201d the wifi , wired and the internal network all route to each other.\u00a0 In theory this means my VM\u2019s can now talk over wifi (not natively possible in Hyper-V).<\/p>\n
Why do this?\u00a0 When doing user group events at the MS offices I plug my laptop into the wired guest network so I can run LiveMeeting for webcasts.\u00a0 My laptop will get a DHCP address on the wired (or wifi elsewhere) NIC.\u00a0 My VM\u2019s can always run on the same IP range with RRAS will then route to the DHCP network.\u00a0 I\u2019ve not tested it yet \u2013 that\u2019s tonight.<\/p>\n
Next up I want to set up VMM on the parent partition and then get some stuff into the library, e.g. some ISO\u2019s and some VHD\u2019s.\u00a0 That means building some Windows Server 2008 R2 VM\u2019s.\u00a0 My primary focus is on the deployment side: WAIK, WDS and MDT 2010 for our next user group event.\u00a0 Odds are I will set up a small Windows 7 boot-from-VHD image for those emergency scenarios.\u00a0 I also need to install office on the server for running things like PowerPoint and LiveMeeting for the webcasts.\u00a0 So far, the parent is only using just about 1.1 \u2013 1.2GB of RAM.\u00a0 Not bad.<\/p>\n
I stopped at about 1am this morning.\u00a0 To be honest, I think I could have gone all night with it but I have a day long meeting today \u2013 oh the joy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I got a new laptop yesterday.\u00a0 It\u2019s primary role will be to run Hyper-V and VMM so I can use it for user group events, various speaking engagements, writing work, etc.\u00a0 It\u2019s a pretty powerful machine: Dell Latitude 6500 Intel Centrino dual core 2.8GHz 1 * 4GB RAM 7.6K 250GB SATA drive Long life battery … Continue reading “New Hyper-V Laptop”<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}