Last night I made some progress in preparing my demo\/lab Windows Server 2008 R2 laptop.\u00a0 I got VMM 2008 R2 installed.\u00a0 I was thinking of running it in a VM but I figured that would be a waste of RAM.<\/p>\n
I also figured out my RRAS approach to connecting VM\u2019s to the parent partition wifi would not work.\u00a0 Yes, it could work if the router on the physical network had a route to my virtual network\u2019s IP range but that would only work at home \u2013 not at hotels or offices where I might be speaking.\u00a0 Instead I disabled RRAS and bridged the wifi NIC with the NIC representing my internal<\/em> virtual network.<\/p>\n The internal virtual network connects the parent partition to all VM\u2019s.\u00a0 The parent gets a new NIC representing the virtual network.\u00a0 This has no physical connection to the Ethernet or wifi networks.\u00a0 I then bridged this network with my wifi NIC.\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n For the wired NIC I can create another external<\/em> virtual network.<\/p>\n As a result I can disable DHCP on my parent partition.\u00a0 The VM\u2019s on my two virtual networks are able to get IP address configurations from the physical network.<\/p>\n My parent partition is a DC for itself so I need to be wary of DNS.\u00a0 The DC is a DNS.\u00a0 I made sure to set DNS on the NIC\u2019s to 127.0.0.1.\u00a0 DNS is configured to forward to OpenDNS.<\/p>\n I got my first template VM set up.\u00a0 Documentation on the process is to follow later today\/tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night I made some progress in preparing my demo\/lab Windows Server 2008 R2 laptop.\u00a0 I got VMM 2008 R2 installed.\u00a0 I was thinking of running it in a VM but I figured that would be a waste of RAM. I also figured out my RRAS approach to connecting VM\u2019s to the parent partition wifi … Continue reading “Progress On The Laptop \u2013 And Some Design Changes”<\/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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9956","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