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Category: Azure

  • Solution for Unresponsive Win8 Guest VMs

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    If you’re going to run Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 in a virtual machine on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, please install this hotfix patch http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2744129 on the Hyper-V host server, Without applying this hotfix, you may experience one or more of the following issues: The Windows 8/Server 2012 virtual machine becomes unresponsive. The Windows…

  • SCVMM 2012 RTM Available for download

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    SCVMM 2012 RTM is available for download for MSDN subscribers. You can start download it here. The SCVMM 2012 RTM version is 3.0.6005.0. Microsoft has published the SCVMM 2012 RTM help document and cmdlets help. If you upgrade to RTM from RC, you can enter the product key in Admin Console UI About dialog Enter…

  • How to tell if your CPU Supports SLAT

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    SLAT-enabled processor is the requirement of Hyper-V RemoteFX feature which is introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2. It’s the requirement of Windows 8 client Hpyer-V feature as well. For INTEL CPU models, following CPU models are SLAT-Capable Server: E5500 or higher. Desktop/Laptops: I3/I5/I7/I7-qm There is a handy tool named CoreInfo from systeminternals that can check…

  • Hyper-v Tip: Use windows key without fullscreen

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    When connect to a remote VM with hyper-v manager, I have to full screen to make Windows key. Personally I think Hyper-V should have a Windows key button in toolbar like "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" button. Actually Hyper-v manager allows you to select where the Windows keys goes when you press it. Open up the Hyper-V Settings dialog…

  • Using Hyper-V in Windows 8

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    In Steven Sinofsky’s this blog – Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8”. He talks about that Windows 8 will support virtualization on the “client” OS.  This is very helpful for developers as they typically have the need to setup additional test environment on their PC/Laptop. Hardware Requirements Hyper-V supports creation of both 32-bit and 64-bit operating…

  • Using SCVMM 2012 Cmdlets in PowerShell

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    SCVMM Cmdlets allow SCVMM admin/users to do everything they can do in SCVMM AdminConsole in windows PowerShell command line. In SCVMM 2008 R2, you can run following command in PowerShell to run SCVMM cmdlets. Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager But this does not work in SCVMM 2012 as SCVMM 2012 uses PowerShell module. For SCVMM 2012 now you…

  • Improve VM deploy performance in SCVMM

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    SCVMM use BITS over https to deploy virtual machine to host server. To improve the performance of virtual machine deploy, you can disable encrypted file transfers for Host Group. Open Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console (aka SCVMM Console) on the Application Tier and connect to VMM Server Click Host on the left side pane. Right…

  • HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Error when install Windows 8 Developer Preview on VPC

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    When you install the Windows 8 Developer Preview on Virtual PC in 64-bit windows. Your installation would fail with the blue screen of sad: : ( Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn’t handle, and now it needs to restart You can search for the error online: HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

  • IDE/ATAPI Account does not have sufficient privilege to open attachment

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    You might get following error after you move or replace a virtual disk drive file of a hyper-v virtual machine. An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machine(s). ‘TestVM’ failed to start. Microsoft Emulated IDE Controller (Instance ID {83F8638B-8DCA-4152-9EDA-2CA8B33039B4}): Failed to Power on with Error ‘General access denied error’ IDE/ATAPI Account does…

  • Could not load file or assembly TraceWrapper, Version=1.0.523.0

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    There are two versions of the TraceWrapper.dll in SCVMM install CD. One is x86 version and the other is x64 version. When you build your application on top of SCVMM library Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager, it’s very important to pick up the correct version TraceWrapper.dll. In general, you should copy the 32 bit dll if you are using…