Comments on: Running Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 from USB

By: gkakas

gkakas — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:26:07 +0000

This is a small tool to create Hyper-V R2 bootable USB sticks.

http://www.cite.gr/cite/?q=node/17

I have not tested it thoroughly yet, but seems to work on two systems (x64).

Does almost same thing as this article describes, but it is not based on this article.

By: Joachim Nässlander

Joachim Nässlander — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:59:18 +0000

You could manage with a 4 GB I’d assume, it’s around 2.6 GB installed. I’ve just tried it with 16 GB USB-drives.

By: jason404

jason404 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:24:44 +0000

What size USB flash drive do you need to do this with Hyper-V? ESXi can run from a 2GB flash drive (I think it actually only needs 1GB).

By: Joachim Nässlander

Joachim Nässlander — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:45:07 +0000

Hmm, I’ll look over my post to see if I’ve missed something. That’d be embarrassing :)

By: Splash

Splash — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:58:43 +0000

I realise that this is an old posting, but for the benefit of anyone else struggling with this (like I did for the past few hours!) I managed to resolve the booting issue with EasyBCD (which is a freebie at the time of writing and has been for a while, promise I’m not pimping!)

By: Bob Sculley

Bob Sculley — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:11:12 +0000

Hi,

Let me begin by saying that I am a developer, not an admin, so a lot of your procedure was totally “cookbook” for me. I think I followed all the steps, but at the end I had a flash drive with only 16MB used and it won’t boot. I’m assuming I missed something basic (like copying the vhd file to the flash drive, maybe?) but I reviewed the procedure thoroughly and I can’t spot my mistake. The bcdboot process said “copying boot files” and that’s what used the 16MB. I would appreciate it if you could point out my error.

Thanks,
Bob

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:13:29 +0000

Hi, just been playing with this, failed many times. I decided to use the host (windows 7 x64) bcdboot (bcdboot C:\Windows /s usbdrive: /v) rather than using the boot from the image (bcdboot vhddrive:\Windows /s usbdrive: /v). Now it works. Thanks for the info!

By: Ross Beavis

Ross Beavis — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:12:09 +0000

I’m intregued, why not just skip the vhd and apply the installer straight to the USB drive? Is the vhd to get round the removeable media bit? If so, there’s a way to get round that using this tool:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=15923&st=0&p=103213&#entry103213

Presumably also you could skip the VHD if installing this to a USB hard drive?