A common way to attach a virtual hard disk to a virtual machine is via the Hyper-V Manager. But, as Brien shows, you can use PowerShell instead. Recently, I have been spending some time coming up with ...

This is my third posting in this series. In the first posting, I described the different components that would be needed for this script. Then in the second posting, I started explaining how the first ...

Hyper-V administrators can quickly resolve four common errors by identifying their root causes--from permissions and VM ...

It is also possible to delay the start of the virtual machine. This helps when you want it to start automatically but wait for a few moments first. It is possible to set this up with the help of the ...

While starting a virtual machine on Hyper-V, if you get An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machine(s) or ‘VM’ could not read or ...

When choosing to administer VMware-based virtual machines (VMs), administrators have a few decisions to make when prepping their bare-metal hosts and configuring the guest OSes, the storage spaces, ...

Activating Microsoft Windows virtual machines can be challenging. But by using automatic virtual machine activation with the built-in Software Licensing Manager, administrators can quickly and easily ...