Hyper V Manager for Windows XP

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2nd January 2009, 07:21 PM
FN-GM

Hyper V Manager for Windows XP

HI there

Does anyone know if you can get Hyper V manger for Windows XP please?

Thanks
2nd January 2009, 09:39 PM
kmount

I wouldn't imagine you can given it has a pre-requisite of Vista SP1, but having not tried it, I can't specifically comment. Google hasn't helped much either, sorry.
2nd January 2009, 10:29 PM
K.C.Leblanc

Erm, my knowledge of server 2008 mostly comes from a chappy from MS telling me how uber it is so there's probably a good reason why this won't work.

Could you use 2008's application publishing to make the manager available on your XP desktop.
2nd January 2009, 10:37 PM
FN-GM

Quote:

Could you use 2008's application publishing to make the manager available on your XP desktop.

please tell me more :)
2nd January 2009, 10:49 PM
K.C.Leblanc

Quote:

Originally Posted by FN-GM

please tell me more :)

I don't know much more, but I'm under the impression that terminal services in 2008 can make individual applications available instead of the whole desktop. Kinda like X2 or Citrix. But I don't know for certain, I havn't had a chance to play with it.
3rd January 2009, 02:22 AM
somabc

There is no Hyper-V manager for Windows XP, only for Vista & Server 2008 (which is a shame).
16th January 2009, 11:39 AM
FN-GM

Thanks for the comments. I decided Hyper V wasn't the best option. I stuck with VMware and upgraded to server version 2.
20th January 2009, 01:26 AM
k-strider

Thinking a little out the Box you could use some sort of TS to do this.. web App publishing via TS2008 perhaps.. though you would need the infrastructure there though. I see you decided to stick with VM fair enough... i have put Vista on my PC at work (and use this to manage my Hyper-V core server), and i run Virtual Server 2005 on it with XP for all the important stuff that doesn't run correctly in Vista ADUC Exchange Snapins i even do most of my GPO editing in XP since our workstations are still XP