"Hyper-V is an enterprise IT technology included in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. As such the documentation on TechNet and MSDN is on enterprise IT use, on a server. However, some may wish to use Hyper-V on a laptop or a desktop computer. Perhaps to learn about Hyper-V, or create training material such as demos, for development purposes, or just for fun. Sometimes, because of company IT policy and management practice for servers, running Hyper-V on a laptop is the only way you can develop or document something. "
"To run Hyper-V on laptops, you must address several issues, including:
Hyper-V does not allow you to bind a wireless network adapter to a virtual machine, although an unsupported workaround was posted in http://blogs.technet.com/b/doxley/archive/2008/07/07/disconnecting-hyper-v.aspx
NOTE that if your laptop is domain-joined, you may have group policy that prevents this bridging for security reasons. To work around this, dis-join that laptop from the domain.
Power-saving features such as standby and hibernate are disabled when the Hyper-V role is enabled on the system. Other power management features, like changing the minimum and maximum processor speed while running on battery or plugged in, are still available. Since standby and hibernate features are not available, you cannot configure your laptop to go into a sleep state when you close the lid, nor to hibernate when the battery reaches a critical state.
The "user experience" for Windows Server 2008 is not the same as the "desktop experience" user's expect on a Windows Vista or 7 laptop. If you wish to change this see Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS .
Virtual PC and Windows Virtual PC do not support 64-bit virtual machines. Therefore, Hyper-V is the only Microsoft solution for running 64-bit virtual machines on your laptop.
Some laptop display drivers, particularly those with3-D acceleration, are not suppported in Hyper-V. Check your manufacturer information, or use the VGA.sys driver."
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