At times, you may find that orphaned vhdx and avhdx files are filling up your physical disk. You may have deleted the virtual machines in the Hyper-V console earlier, but their disks were never cleaned up. The script below lists all vhdx and avhdx files in a certain location and checks in Hyper-V if they… Read More »
Here’s a short description on how to enable Windows 11 Insider Preview updates on Hyper-V machines. Set up a Hyper-V Generation 2 machine with Windows 10 21H1. Make sure the recent updates are installed. Configure 8192 MB RAM, 4 Processors and enable the TPM. On the VM host, run Set-VM -VMName… Read More »
The idea sounds so good: Instead of installing your virtual lab on your local hard disk put it on a USB 3.0 stick and have it always in your pocket with you. I wanted to try that and bought a 256 GB USB stick with “sensational read/write speed values” (read speed of more than 350… Read More »
If you are running a virtual environment with a DC and DNS server you are likely to encounter a problem with the internet connection or the network connection between your machines. The issue is that your machines can either get an IP address from the DHCP server in your environment or from your router. In… Read More »