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Hyper-V RC1, RTM Around The Corner |
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Sunday, 25 May 2008
by Michel Roth
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Microsoft has announced the general availability of the release candidate 1 (RC1) of Microsoft Hyper-V. This availability of RC1 barely only two months after Microsoft announced RC0 only emphasizes my point in that the RTM of Hyper-V is right around the corner (and not in August).
In addition to bug fixes and stability improvements, Microsoft also
made some additional changes largely based on feedback from customers:
- Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 guest’s included in Integration Services Setup Disk
- New icons/graphics for Hyper-V Manager and Virtual Machine Connection – including a “Now” icon in the snapshot pane
- IPv4
Address Migration - when creating a new Virtual Network bound to an
adapter with a static IPv4 address the IPv4 settings are migrated to
the new virtual adapter.
Of course the new Hyper-V binaries are available only for the x64 version of Windows.
Windows Server 2008 x64 Hyper-V RC1 Update - KB950049
This
is the Hyper-V RC1 package for Windows Server 2008 x64. This package
must be installed on Hyper-V server’s (physical machines). It includes
the Hyper-V Server components for Full and Core installs, the Hyper-V
Integration Components for Server 2008 x64 (see note below for RC1 improvements over RC0) and the Hyper-V Management Components for Full Windows installs.
NOTE:
This package is permanent. Once installed, it cannot be uninstalled.
So you can’t got back to RC0 or Beta after installing RC1.
Read more about Hyper-V RC1 at the Microsoft Virtualization blog.
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