I was running Hyper-V when I needed to extend the OS partition size. I shutdown the server, extended the partition and boot it back up. Windows saw the 20GB original partition, but then also the 10GB empty space, but I could not extend it since the disk was in use. So I shutdown the server [...]

Now if you copied over a VHD from Virtual Server 2005 to Hyper-V, you will most likely see the error The IP address you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter (microsoft Virtual machine Bus Network Adapter) which is no longer present in this computer. There are a few reasons [...]

In virtual server 2005, you could copy VHDs among different folders and virtual servers no problem. With Hyper-V if you tried this, you will get an error similar to: The file d:\virtual machines\disk.vhd does not have the required security settings. What you need to do is deattach the VHD file from the virtual server settings, [...]

Here are some key notes to remember when you want to migrate your virtual server images from Windows Server 2003 running Virtual Server 2005 R2 to the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Hyper-V uses it’s own new tools called integration services. Therfore, before moving the virtual server image to the new server, UNINSTALL the virtual server [...]