Here are some reasons why your Hyper-V virtual machines might fail to shut down and how you can troubleshoot this recurring issue. Occasionally, you may find that when you attempt to use the Hyper-V ...

Before we go ahead and start moving our virtual machines, you need to ensure that your machines are shut down. Otherwise, there is a high chance that the newly created virtual machine will either be ...

‘Virtual-machine-name’ failed to stop: The device is not ready for use. (0x800710DF). (Virtual Machine ID unique-numbers) If you click the Close button and try to ...

Hyper-V in Windows 10 has a built-in tool called Quick Create that lets you automate the process of setting up new virtual machines. Here's how to use it. As someone who has worked in IT for what ...

In an interesting twist, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 8 will feature the first-rate, enterprise-echelon Hyper-V(Opens in a new window) machine virtualization hypervisor. This will mean that ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

Once I got the role installed (and fixed the multitude of disk problems), I thought I’d give Hyper-V a try with a Virtual Hard Drive built on the previous top-of-the-line platform, Virtual Server 2005 ...

In a move that caused more than a few eyes to bulge and jaws to drop, last July Microsoft announced it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of having it included in the Linux tree.

Currently I have an FTP (Linux) server sitting in the DMZ of my network and I need to add a Windows IIS server. Rather than add a 2nd physical machine I want to look at merging the two into VM's ...

I upgraded my desktop from 2008 R2 beta 1 to RC and was playing with my existing Hyper-V machines to see if I could add hardware while they were running as it is supposed to be one of the new features ...