Posts Tagged ‘hypervisor’

Hyper-V Dropping Outgoing Packets

For weeks I have been fighting with a Windows Server 2008 R2 server running Hyper-V. I noticed that on a couple of virtual machines they would suffer from significant packet loss. I first noticed it with the Windows 8 Release Preview VM and immediately blamed it on Windows 8 not being supported yet, not being […]

Windows won’t boot. Black screen with blinking cursor at the corner.

Ever run into a Windows system which won’t boot and instead just sits at a black screen with a blinking cursor forever? I have. Especially when the Windows system is a guest operating system in Microsoft Hyper-V. And frequently if that guest OS was recently converted from a VMWare Server or VMWare ESX Server vmdk […]