140 5 Installing a Guest Session on Hyper-V NOTE You cannot change the allocated RAM on a running virtual guest session. The guest session must be shut down first, memory reallocated to the image, and then the guest image booted for the new memory allocation to take effect. Changing Network Settings for the Guest Session Another common configuration change made to a guest session is to change the network setting for the guest session. An administrator of a virtual server might choose to have each guest session connected directly to the network backbone just as if the guest session had a network adapter connected to the. | 140 5 Installing a Guest Session on Hyper-V NOTE You cannot change the allocated RAM on a running virtual guest session. The guest session must be shut down first memory reallocated to the image and then the guest image booted for the new memory allocation to take effect. Changing Network Settings for the Guest Session Another common configuration change made to a guest session is to change the network setting for the guest session. An administrator of a virtual server might choose to have each guest session connected directly to the network backbone just as if the guest session had a network adapter connected to the backbone or the network administrator might choose to set up an isolated network just for the guest sessions. The configuration of the internal and external network segments that the administrator can configure the guest sessions to connect to is covered in the Managing Host Server Virtual Switch and Disk Setting section of Chapter 6. The common configuration methods of the virtual network configurations can be broken down into two groups as follows Direct addressing The guest sessions can connect directly to the backbone of the network to which the virtual server host system is attached. In this instance an administrator would configure an external connection in the Virtual Network Manager and have an IP address on that external segment. Isolated network If the administrator wants to keep the guest sessions isolated off of the network backbone the administrator can set up an internal connection in the Virtual Network Manager and the guest sessions would have an IP address of a segment common to the other guest sessions on the host system. In this case the virtual server acts as a network switch connecting the guest sessions together. NOTE To connect the internal network segment with the external network segment a guest session can be configured as a router or gateway between the internal network and external network. Mounting a Physical CD DVD Image .
