We currently have several VMs running under Virtual Server 2005 SP1. I would like to move these to Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. However, we only have Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 machines at present – and that is unlikely to change in the time-frame I need.
All of the tools I have seen so far to manage Hyper-V Server require Vista, or Windows 7, or a full Server 2008 machine.
- Are there any tools that will work on Windows XP/Server 2003 to manage the Hyper-V Server?
- Can everything necessary (e.g. creating VMs/virtual hard drives, mounting .iso as virtual cd drive, starting/stopping vms, etc) be accomplished via the Hyper-V Server commandline?
- Where is a good reference for the Hyper-V commandline?
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2 - Yes. As you work in Virtual machine manager, you can see the Powershell code behind each task. That's prob. a good starting place for learning
3- I assume Technet will have all this. Here's an MS presentation