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Hyper-V Server R2 boots from flash

By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial

Posted in operating systems, Windows 7, Windows Server, Windows Vista, virtualisation, Windows, Enterprise, Microsoft on May 13, 2009 at 7:01 pm

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Getting virtualisation deployed just got a lot faster.

We’ve spent the morning with Microsoft’s Jeff Wooley, one of the team leads that helped put together Hyper-V, talking about live migration. However, one final thing he said was a bit of a scoop…

It turns out that Hyper-V Server R2, the next release of Microsoft’s standalone virtualisation platform, will boot from flash disk. That’s a big new feature that will help speed virtualisation deployments - all you’ll need to do is duplicate a set of flash drives for all your servers. All your hard disk space is working space for your VMs, and storage for your VHDs.

Oh, and it’ll be free.

That’s not bad.

While you’re thinking that way, flash drives are a good way of installing the latest generation of operating systems. It’s easy enough to make a bootable flash drive in Windows with just a few commands:

1. diskpart

2. list disk

3. select disk 1

4. clean

5. create partition primary

6. select partition 1

7. active

8. format fs=fat32

9. assign

10. exit

Then all you need to do is copy Windows Vista’s (or Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008) DVD ROM content to the drive. Simply issue the following command to start copying all the content from the DVD to your newly formatted high speed flash drive: xcopy d:\*.* /s/

Just plug in the drive, and you’re ready to install - very quickly. If you’ve just got an ISO of an installer, this is a good alternative to burning a DVD…

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