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| | Hyper-V question Hi, I currently use Hyper-V Beta (one included with Win2008 RTM). Question: when Hyper-V RTM released, will I be able to upgrade (and use exising VMs)? Thanks, Boris |
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| | Re: Hyper-V question No, you will not be able to directly upgrade. You will be able to use the existing VMs by recreating them and pointing the new VM to the existing VHD files. (This is covered in the RC installation documentation. ) -- Charlie. http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel "boris" <someone@xxxxxx> wrote in message news 5A7D421-5949-4611-B9C3-9395F896C650@xxxxxxQuote: > Hi, > > I currently use Hyper-V Beta (one included with Win2008 RTM). > Question: when Hyper-V RTM released, will I be able to upgrade (and use > exising VMs)? > > Thanks, > Boris |
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| | Re: Hyper-V question I was offered the RC0 to RC1 upgrade from WU. It worked great. I was kind of hoping the RTM version would work the same. -- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:9DAB6890-6C76-40BA-BE31-5EE5FC2A5C5E@xxxxxx Quote: > No, you will not be able to directly upgrade. You will be able to use the > existing VMs by recreating them and pointing the new VM to the existing > VHD files. (This is covered in the RC installation documentation. ) > > -- > Charlie. > http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64 > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel > > > "boris" <someone@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news 5A7D421-5949-4611-B9C3-9395F896C650@xxxxxxQuote: >> Hi, >> >> I currently use Hyper-V Beta (one included with Win2008 RTM). >> Question: when Hyper-V RTM released, will I be able to upgrade (and use >> exising VMs)? >> >> Thanks, >> Boris |
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| | Re: Hyper-V question Upgrading Hyper-V will probably work. Whether your vms will still run is the real question. With the upgrade from RC0 to RC1 everything worked fine for me. There have been a few reports in newgroups and forums of problems. Some were caused by vms left in a saved state, some by having unmerged snapshots (both known problems) but there were a few other worrying ones. I know that they were aiming at making RC1 upgradeable to RTM, but we will have to wait and see. Like Charlie I would play safe and delete the vms, then re-create them from the existing vhds. "Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxx-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message news:CC909ADE-0421-4A65-BC7A-2E115DB33DE0@xxxxxx Quote: >I was offered the RC0 to RC1 upgrade from WU. It worked great. I was kind >of hoping the RTM version would work the same. > > -- > Kerry Brown > MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration > http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ > > > > "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:9DAB6890-6C76-40BA-BE31-5EE5FC2A5C5E@xxxxxx Quote: >> No, you will not be able to directly upgrade. You will be able to use the >> existing VMs by recreating them and pointing the new VM to the existing >> VHD files. (This is covered in the RC installation documentation. ) >> >> -- >> Charlie. >> http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64 >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel >> >> >> "boris" <someone@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news 5A7D421-5949-4611-B9C3-9395F896C650@xxxxxxQuote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I currently use Hyper-V Beta (one included with Win2008 RTM). >>> Question: when Hyper-V RTM released, will I be able to upgrade (and use >>> exising VMs)? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Boris |
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| | Re: Hyper-V question Notice that the OP was going from Beta 2 to RC - that almost certainly won't work and isn't supported. From RC0 to RC1 pretty much worked if you didn't have saved states. And in theory, RC1 to RTM should work, but I'm with you - I'm not planning on it. -- Charlie. http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel "Bill Grant" <not.available@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uAYBwcHwIHA.516@xxxxxx Quote: > Upgrading Hyper-V will probably work. Whether your vms will still run is > the real question. > > With the upgrade from RC0 to RC1 everything worked fine for me. There > have been a few reports in newgroups and forums of problems. Some were > caused by vms left in a saved state, some by having unmerged snapshots > (both known problems) but there were a few other worrying ones. I know > that they were aiming at making RC1 upgradeable to RTM, but we will have > to wait and see. > > Like Charlie I would play safe and delete the vms, then re-create them > from the existing vhds. > > "Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxx-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message > news:CC909ADE-0421-4A65-BC7A-2E115DB33DE0@xxxxxx Quote: >>I was offered the RC0 to RC1 upgrade from WU. It worked great. I was kind >>of hoping the RTM version would work the same. >> >> -- >> Kerry Brown >> MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration >> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ >> >> >> >> "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:9DAB6890-6C76-40BA-BE31-5EE5FC2A5C5E@xxxxxx Quote: >>> No, you will not be able to directly upgrade. You will be able to use >>> the existing VMs by recreating them and pointing the new VM to the >>> existing VHD files. (This is covered in the RC installation >>> documentation. ) >>> >>> -- >>> Charlie. >>> http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64 >>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel >>> >>> >>> "boris" <someone@xxxxxx> wrote in message >>> news 5A7D421-5949-4611-B9C3-9395F896C650@xxxxxx>>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I currently use Hyper-V Beta (one included with Win2008 RTM). >>>> Question: when Hyper-V RTM released, will I be able to upgrade (and use >>>> exising VMs)? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Boris >>> |
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