Hyper V on T410 running W7 Ult 64. Anyone doing this?

I am looking at running at 1 or more virtual machines on my new T410. Has anyone done this? Any pitfalls or problems? Any resources that were helpful?

 

Are you wanting to run the Stand alone Hyper-V R2 Server and add a Win 7 Ult VM? It would work but the Stand alone is only a CLI or remote environment.

If you are wanted to install Server 2008 R2 and add the Hyper-V role it should work without issue, Server 2008 R2 was designed to be able to run on laptops because so many that work for Microsoft needed to run demos on their laptops....

 

What kind of VMs and for what purpose?

I'm not running Hyper-V, but I do run VMWare Workstation, and it performs quite nicely on my T400.

 

Bing/Google search turns up Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to the Lenovo ThinkPad T410 - Keith Combs' Blahg - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

As already mentioned in the thread, the Microsoft guys usually report Hyper-V issues they encounter with the ThinkPads.

If you want to run VMs on Windows 7, you should also checkout Oracle VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation. VirtualBox is still free I think.

 

i just bought my T410i.. core i5 + 4GB RAM..

now running windows server 2008 R2 SP1 with hyper-V..

running windows server 2008 R2 images with Exchange server 2010..

so far so good.. it just that i need 6GB @ perhaps 8GB RAM to make sure the Hyper-V images run smoothly.

 

Thanks for the link and info. The host OS is Win7 64 Ultimate with 8GB RAM on an i7. I am looking into Hyper V or other free virtualization software for the following reasons:
1. Get some practicle experience with a virtualized environment
2. Be able to run a network on 1 machine. i.e. Windows server os and client os, both on the host os
3. Really, it boils down to hands on experience. None of the virtuals I would run would be critical, but would give me great hands on experience with new server OS'es, Ubuntu (or other Linux builds) and allow me to create test environments to continue my career.

I lean toward Hyper V simply because I support almost exclusively Windows for my job (very few Mac and no linux). The only other other option would be VMWare server (i am not even sure of the flavors available of VMWare) simply because it would be the most relevant to me and my job. Meaning it would be (after HyperV) the most likely to be implemented in the environments I support.

I was envisioning the following VMs on my system:
Windows sbs 2008 with WXP and W7 as clients
Windows SBS2011 (when released) with the same clients
Linux build (Ubuntu is the only one I have personally tried)
WXP for testing software

At most, I would have a server OS and 1 workstation OS running simultaneously.

ANy thoughts? From my reading, HyperV 2008 R2 will run on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

Thanks again for all the info!

Jonesy

 

Why VMWare Server as opposed to Workstation?

Workstation will still run server operating systems just fine. I've run 2008R2 guest OSes on a Windows 7 Pro x64 host system with it, so that I could create template guests for VMware ESXi servers I was building at work.

 

If you want to run the Stand Alone version of Hyper-V irt will need to be a dual boot situation, What I would do is create a blank VHD Aand mount it to your Windows 7 install, edit the BCD and load Server 2008 R2 on the VHD, after that you can add the Hyper-V role to the Server...

Dual Boot from VHD Using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 - Keith Combs' Blahg - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

 

I'm assuming you aren't planning to do a bare metal install.

VMWare Workstation will give you better guest OS performance than VMWare Server will and quite a bit easier to manage.

VMWare Server is only manageable via the web interface. Hyper-V is only manageable through MMC. Both of which are a pseudo pain in the butt compared to VMWare Workstation.