Posted December 30th, 2009 by Matt Shadbolt
If you receive the following Hyper-V error when starting one of your VM’s on Server 2008 R1, follow the link to the hotfix below. ‘VMSERVER’ could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: ‘Unspecified error’(0×80004005). (Virtual machine XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXX) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967902&sd=rss&spid=12925 This hotfix is suggested for all users, not only those affected by the error. Posted by Matt [...]
Tags: (0x80004005), Hyper-V
Posted November 16th, 2008 by Matt Shadbolt
I performed my upgrade over the weekend and thought I would post some quick tips on little gotcha’s that you need to know before starting. – The most important consideration is transferring the VHD files from the old server to the new one. I was upgrading the hardware that the VM’s were running on, so [...]
Tags: Hyper-V, Migration, Upgrade, Virtual Server 2005 R2, Windows Server 2008
Posted September 11th, 2008 by Matt Shadbolt
I have to apologize for the lack of posting the past couple of weeks. I was at TechEd in Sydney last week and have spent all this week trying to catch up. I will have a bunch of really interesting posts on the cool things I discovered there – namely the advantages of Hyper-V, the [...]
Tags: Exchange 2007, Hyper-V, Tech.Ed, Virtual Machine Manager