Everything is Crap » hyper-v http://everythingiscrap.com Notes on the crap we've been subjected to Wed, 02 May 2012 15:33:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hyper-V integration for Ubuntu http://everythingiscrap.com/hyper-v-integration-for-ubuntu/ http://everythingiscrap.com/hyper-v-integration-for-ubuntu/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:02:29 +0000 paul http://everythingiscrap.com/?p=496

Add the following to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

hv_vmbus

hv_storvsc

hv_blkvsc

hv_netvsc

Generate a new initrd image

update-initramfs –u

make sure /etc/network/interfaces is pointed at the synthetic network adapter

auto seth0

iface seth0 inet dhcp

Thanks RobbieCanuck and ServerFault

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So, Windows doesn't work well for WordPress. The more plug-ins I install, the more I realize that the world of WordPress is still a Linux-based world. We'll keep Everything is Crap on Windows because our needs are simple for this blog. But, in the future, all my WordPress are belong to Ubuntu.

But, because Everything is Crap, Ubuntu has problems too. Specifically, the shiny and new Ubuntu 10.04 Server running on Hyper-V R2 is unusably slow. But, just on the console. Attaching via SSH works as quick as ever. Anyway, here's the fix:

edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf and add the following line:
blacklist vga16fb

This guy fixed the Ubuntu slow console frame buffer problem for Hyper-V and Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks guy!

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Snapshots in Hyper-V are awesome. No more reinstalling from scratch to fix a boneheaded error. Take a snapshot before you do something dangerous (like messing with users or network settings). Then, no matter what happens, you can return to the EXACT POINT IN TIME from which you took the snapshot.

More information about snapshots from the Virtual PC Guy.

]]> http://everythingiscrap.com/hyper-v-snapshots-are-cool/feed/ 0 Installing Drivers on Hyper-V R2 http://everythingiscrap.com/installing-drivers-on-hyper-v-r2/ http://everythingiscrap.com/installing-drivers-on-hyper-v-r2/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:30:00 +0000 paul http://piotrouble.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/installing-drivers-on-hyper-v-r2 We've been trying to set up a new network card on our Hyper-V R2 installation. GUI installations don't work. Luckily, there's a utility for that, pnputil.exe. Once we found the right .inf we were able to successfully add and install the network adapter driver.

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net share MyShareName=C:MyShareDrive /GRANT:MyDomainMyUser",FULL

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