Hi Todd,
i will take you up on that offer one day hopefully. Be nice to try some different beers than what the UK have to offer me
Great job getting XP loaded in to Hyper-V
Right firstly how to get USB access in Hyper-V
You are going to need to load your Hyper-V manager, Then right click your host name and click "Hyper-V settings"
Then Locate "Enhanced session mode policy", make sure "Allow enhanced session Mode" is Enabled
The Locate "Enhanced session mode" , make sure Use enhanced Session mode" is enabled.
Click "Ok"
Then connect to your machine; right click and click "Connect"
This should now load in and show this windows "Click Show Options"
Now you will see two tabs at the top of the windows click "Local Recourses"
Now Click "More", expand the tree from "Drives" and if you have plugged your USB in to your Host machine you should see it. Unfortunately in my screenshot below i will not able able to give you a full representation of what would happen, sitting as many miles as i am away from the host I am demoted in to extremely hard to plug a USB drive in
You will just need to choose the USB drive you have plugged in to your host!!
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Click "OK", then Click Connect:
Then fingers crossed when you connect and check for drives you will find the usb drive!!!
Now for the internet, you are able to bind you wireless card to your virtual machines if you desire.
On the Start screen, type PowerShell, right-click the Windows PowerShell app tile, and then, in the app bar, click Run as administrator.
Once PowerShell is loaded you can run a command to get your Network adapters. Enter the cmdlet:
Get-NetAdapter
This will show in a table a list of your network adapters and under the column “InterfaceDescription”
From here you will be able to see if you have any VEthernet networks created in your network.
I suggest you try and create a new virtual switch from PowerShell. The command will be shown below (Note you may want to delete previous Vethernet switches bound to the Network adapter before hand). The one thing you will need to change is the “-NetAdapterName”; input the name from the “Name” field from the “Get-NetAdapter” table.
The command below will create an external network with OS management enabled.
New-VMSwitch "VM Network" -NetAdapterName "Ethernet 2" -AllowManagementOS $True
^^ of course making sure you bind to the network adapter you desire.
I also Recommend installing the integration packs in the Windows XP machine to do this:
ok please can you try update the integration service with the following:
1 - Upgrade Hyper-V Host with latest code - RTM, Hotfix etc...
2 - Launch the Hyper-V Manager MMC
3 - Connect to the Hyper-V Guest System (1 at a time)
4 - Click Action - Insert Integration Services Setup
5 - Run through the prompts
After the VM should restart.
Hope this helps should really make this in to a tutorial.
Cheers,
Harry