On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Joseph Kern <[email protected]>wrote:

> That sounds almost as bad as running a windows 7 vm on your esxi server to
> run the vSphere Client for all your Linux VMs.
>
> Xen is sounding better and better every day ....
>
> We have a heterogeneous environment with both Hyper-V and ESXi (due to
purchasing a company running a different environment) so the box I've been
using to manage Hyper-V resides on ESXi which eliminates the risk you're
referring to.

Regardless, it's not a great move by Microsoft. Very disappointing in fact.


>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Joseph Kern <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> It's funny, I can only find comments in MSDN blogs about how that
>>> doesn't work, I can't find anything official about that.
>>>
>>> Are you talking about the 2008 Hyper-V SKU? Or the 2008 Standard running
>>> Hyper-V as a role? IMHO, buying anything less than standard or ultimate SKU
>>> is just asking for trouble with Windows products ...
>>>
>>> I'm currently experiencing this issue firsthand at my place of
>> employment and we're running 2008 Datacenter running Hyper-V as a role.
>>
>> I had to setup a Windows 7 VM that I remote into whenever I want to
>> manage our Hyper-V 2008 environment. It is very annoying.
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> > From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss-
>>>>> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Kern
>>>>> >
>>>>> > winrm is turned on by default
>>>>> > powershell is now front and center (and loads fast)
>>>>> > systems may be upgraded/downgraded from server-core at will.
>>>>>
>>>>> I mentioned in a different thread, that the win7 RSAT tools are not
>>>>> compatible with 2012.  So you either need to install win8 RSAT (implying
>>>>> you need to run windows 8), or use RDP and do it locally on a 2012 server.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Additionally, you can't manage many parts of Windows Server 2008 from
>>>> Windows 8 (specifically Hyper-V 2008). It's a real pain and very
>>>> shortsighted by Microsoft.
>>>>
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