Hyper-V

Technical articles from Microsoft’s Windows Server core team

Hyper-V HyperClear RETbleed Update

Multiple new speculative execution side channel issues were recently disclosed by both Intel and AMD.  These issues were described in security bulletins available here: AMD CPU Branch Type Confusion | AMD Return Stack Buffer Underflow / CVE-2022-29901, CVE-2022-28693 /… (intel.com) These hardware vulnerabilities are officially referred to as CVE-2022-23825 (Branch Type Confusion), CVE-2022-29900 (RETbleed), CVE-2022-29901 …

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VMware Workstation and Hyper-V

As a follow up to our previous post on VMware and Hyper-V Working Together,  VMware has released a version of VMware Workstation that works with the Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHP). This release adds support for VMware Workstation running side by side with Microsoft’s virtualization based offerings.  For a full write up on the changes VMware …

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VM Checkpoints Names in the Hyper-V Manager Window…

Hello everyone, my name is John Clyburn and I am a Sr. consultant in MCS. I recently ran into an interesting problem with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019 and Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019 I think you may find interesting. The VM checkpoints showed up in the Hyper-V Manager window as VMs.  I would …

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Hyper-V for Developers on Windows 10

Hyper-V is more known as a server virtualization technology; however, since Windows 8, it is also available in the client operating system. In Windows 10, Microsoft improved the experience drastically to make Hyper-V an excellent solution for developers and IT Pros. Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian, is a native (type 1) hypervisor that directly runs on …

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Hyper-V Powering Windows Features

December 2019 Hyper-V is Microsoft’s hardware virtualization technology that initially released with Windows Server 2008 to support server virtualization and has since become a core component of many Microsoft products and features. These features range from enhancing security to empowering developers to enabling the most compatible gaming console. Recent additions to this list include Windows …

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Step-By-Step: Building a Hyper-V Lab in Azure with Windows Server 2019

I was recently challenged with having to create technical demos for a Microsoft Ignite the tour session called “Migrating to Windows Server 2019” (watch the recording here – awesome session). The demos for this talk centered around taking a bunch of Windows Server 2008 R2 systems running “core infrastructure services” (Active Directory, DHCP and File …

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