130 5 Installing a Guest Session on Hyper-V The operating systems that Microsoft supports as guest sessions under Windows 2008 Hyper-V are as follows: . Windows Server 2008 x86 and x64 . Windows Server 2003 SP2 or higher x86 and x64 . Windows 2000 Server with SP4 and Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4 . Windows Vista x86 and x64 . Windows XP SP2 or later x86 and x64 . SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 or later x86 and x64 NOTE When attempting to install an operating system that may not be officially supported by Microsoft, you might find that a network adapter driver,. | 130 5 Installing a Guest Session on Hyper-V The operating systems that Microsoft supports as guest sessions under Windows 2008 Hyper-V are as follows Windows Server 2008 x86 and x64 Windows Server 2003 SP2 or higher x86 and x64 Windows 2000 Server with SP4 and Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4 Windows Vista x86 and x64 Windows XP SP2 or later x86 and x64 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 or later x86 and x64 NOTE When attempting to install an operating system that may not be officially supported by Microsoft you might find that a network adapter driver hard drive driver audio sound driver or the like is not supported and either the operating system will fail to complete the installation or it will appear to install correctly but the guest session has no support to communicate externally because a network driver was not available to support the guest session. Many times legacy drivers will work and a guest image will work fine. Again however Microsoft technically only supports the operating systems they state that they support for guest sessions. Installing a Windows-Based Guest Operating System Session Assuming you have a Windows 2008 server with the Hyper-V installed and running the guest operating system installation is merely walking through the wizard-driven installation process. The Installation Wizard enables the administrator to configure settings for the guest session and to begin the installation of the guest operating system software itself. A guest session could be a server-based session running something like Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 or a client-based session running something like Windows XP or Windows Vista. The installation of a non-Windows-based guest operating system like Linux is covered in the section Installing a Linux-Based Guest Operating System Session later in this chapter. Gathering the Components Needed for a Windows-Based Guest Session When creating a guest operating system administrators need to make sure they .
