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EFA - Hyper-V

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Hello Darky83

Congratulations on the first EFA release. Let hope it the first of many.

Is there any chance of a .vhd (Hyper-V) release?

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That could be possible,

I am currently documenting the build script, with the build script it is possible to build EFA on any machine you want from scratch (linux knowledge is required however because a basic installed debian system is needed)

I currently don't have a Hyper-V host available but I can set one up next week to create a vhd also.
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No worries... I've used linux for many years & many different distro's

I have access to Hyper-V, VMware ESXi and at a push... A Citrix Xen hosts.

Can knock you up an image(s) if you want?

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I already created a Hyper-V image for you :)

see: http://www.efa-project.org/download/
It is compressed using 7zip so you will need 7zip to decompress the .7z file.

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Howdy Darky83

I've downloaded the Hyper-V image. Not having much luck importing it though. Replicated the install/export path etc. What version of Hyper-V did you use?

I'm using Windows 2008 Stnd

Many thanks for the time and effort

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2008 std R2

I don't know if there is a difference in R2 maybe.

I will try it out tomorrow, I sucessfully installed it on a few 2008 R2 hyper-v servers but never tried a non R2 machine.
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Hi Dark

Just wondering you had a .vhd file that could be added to a Hyper-V instance?
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I tested on a non R2 server and all seems to be working fine.

Are you using the import option in Hyper-V Manager or just selecting the disks it self?

See for example: http://www.howtogeek.com/104148/beginne ... n-hyper-v/ and scroll down to Importing a Virtual Machine and select 'Copy the Virtual Machine'

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Howdy

Tried both methods. Gunna try another import
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Hi Dark

Still no joy.

I've replicated the export path. Even tried removing the UUID from the .exp file

Just a quick question... I know this sounds insulting.. But you're not renaming folders once the vm has exported & all exported (even empty ones) folders are being included in the 7zip?

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Howdy Darky83

Please disregard last post.

I've imported the image on Hyper-V R2 host. Image boots up, I can run through the config options.

There's no networking though.

As for my 2008 Std Hyper-V @ Home... time to blow it away and upgrade.

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For networking make sure the 'legacy' networking adapter is connected to a virtual switch.

Weird that it didn't work on your non R2 2008 server, I specialy installed one to test but it worked there :S
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Hello, Yes... tried the legacy card... still no luck :-(

tried bringing the card 'manually' with ifup etc. Tried creating a new vm adding the legacy card, then adding the two vhd files. It boots up but still doesn't pick up the network interface.

This happens on both Hyper-v's

Gunna try a vanilla debian install with Legacy card enabled... just to rule out anymore hv bugs
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Hi,

I am also getting the same problem with lack of networking after the image goes thru the config.

2008 R2 Hyper V with switch and legacy network adapter.

Any ideas?
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Been testing but somehow I can't reproduce,

Guess it has something todo with the physical hardware differences.
My best guess is that in the ip configuration script I use I set eth0 as network interface.

It might be that in your case the system has a eth1 nic for example, if you do a clean boot and then login on the console and then:

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dmesg | grep -i eth 
what is the result there? does it show a eth0 or eth1 nic?

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It appears that if you use the pre-built image, but choose not to keep the same MAC address, Debian assigns a new interface name to the (sole) Ethernet adapter. I haven't tested replacing with the synthetic NIC and keeping the MAC - as it appears the kernel doesn't include the Hyper-V extensions and I'm not clued up enough to install them myself.
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