Patrick’s Bytes

After months of testing, Hyper-V reached RTM status today. What is Hyper-V? Below is the explanation from Microsoft’s website.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, allows you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. With Hyper-V, you can also efficiently run multiple different operating systems—Windows, Linux, and others—in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.

You can download it here. I will do the same and test it out over the weekend.

Been using Lenovo T60 under the impression that it does not support Hardware virtualization for about 1 year! This is not until Serena Yeoh told about running Hyper-V on her T61 only I realize by default the Thinkpads have this feature turned off by default. You need to go into bios and set it in CPU configuration section. (pic below)

As stated on the screen, you need to power off the system and turn it on again to have this feature visible in Virtual PC (shown below)

Next? Maybe thinking of installing Windows Server 2008 64bit with Hyper-V on my T60 as well.