I have tried the Net Use command from the command prompt on the Hyper-V
server. No luck. I still get the 'access denied' error. Unfortunately I
don't have a USB thumb drive large enough to hold the VHD file (2.6Gb.)
Joe
"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
Quote:
> How about a USB hard drive? You should be able to copy off of that.
>
> I haven't run the Hyper-V server on my DL380, I'm running full Server 2k8 on
> it. But you get a command window on the parent, correct? Have you tried "net
> use " from that to connect to a share where the file is? Then you could copy
> without having to involve extra hardware.
>
> --
> Charlie.
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>
> "Joe" <Joe@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:7BA4636E-202C-4529-8510-F430053AA694@xxxxxx Quote:
> >I have a question that seems really basic but I have not found an answer
> >yet.
> >
> > I have a brand new HP DL380 server. I installed the stand-alone version
> > of
> > Hyper-V Server, added it to the domain, assigned IP address, etc. I then
> > installed the Hyper-V management console on a new Vista SP1 workstation.
> > I
> > am able to connect to the Hyper-V server and create new VM's with no
> > problem.
> >
> > Here's the problem. I don't know how to copy an existing VHD file onto
> > the
> > Hyper-V server! I downloaded the eval .VHD of Virtual Machine Manager
> > from
> > Microsoft onto the Vista management PC. Since Windows Server is not
> > running
> > on the Hyper-V machine, I can't map a drive or otherwise copy the file.
> > Remote Desktop to the Hyper-V server also doesn't allow me to copy the
> > file.
> > The import routine in the Hyper-V management console will only look at the
> > local drives on the server and will not pick up a file from the Vista
> > machine.
> >
> > As an attempted work-around, I created a new VM and tried to create a new
> > VHD using a Windows Server 2008.iso file. However, when I drill down to
> > the
> > share on the Vista machine where the .iso file is located, I get a
> > 'general
> > access denied' error even though I have set every permission in the book.
> >
> > I'm at a loss. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
>
>