Hyper-V RC1, its getting closer...
So Hyper-V is in RC1 and it is available as a public download for all, in total there are four files that you should know of.
Install, update the existing installation (RC0) but please beware that you should:
- Shutdown all the guests, do not use the save state feature. That is NOT supported. All the child needs to be shut down...
- Delete all snapshots and snapshot trees. They can not be used anyway
- All IC's are on the IC ISO, including support for W2K8 (last time the W2K8 was a download from Microsoft)
- If you are running BETA of Hyper-V you need to recreate the child configurations but not the VHD file.
Then you upgrade the parent and then all the child. Improvements in RC1 is (really hard to guess) performance, stability, security, user experience, new programming model, forward capability. Most stuff you don't see or feel, except for the user experience part and the performance :-)
Mikael Nystrom
MVP Windows Server - Setup/Deployment