Mastering Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

This shared driver base leads to the main concern, which is security and stability. With a shared dri ...

Figure 2.2 Task Manager showing a single vmms.exe instance and many vmwp.exe instances Components also run i ...

VMMS and VMWP that run in the user mode. The VID talks to the Windows Hypervisor Interface Library (WinHv) ...

The Anatomy of a Virtual Machine Consider the fundamental objectives of a virtualization environment. One objectiv ...

Ethernet adapter, a PS/2 keyboard and mouse, and a complete virtual motherboard with BIOS. Behind the ...

adapter, and floppy). The types of network adapters are covered in the next chapter, but for now know that a legacy network adap ...

VM IC Time Synchronization Provider The guidance for domain controllers has changed over the years. The recommendat ...

process (vmwp.exe) in the parent partition (which gives poor performance), and wherever possible, to avoid ...

Figure 2.5 Adding a SCSI controller to a generation 1 virtual machine Each SCSI controller supports up ...

the hardware and therefore stop virtual machine mobility. This does not mean there are not solutions, though ...

generation 2 virtual machine removes these emulated components to offer a simpler, streamlined virtual machine tha ...

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Figure 2.6 Generation 1 compared to generation 2 hardware At the time of this writing, the following ope ...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463149.aspx The main benefits to using a generation 2 virtual m ...

Additionally, because of the text-based nature of the file, it was susceptible to corruption if an unplanned power ...

Windows Server 2012 4 Windows Server 2012 R2 5 (and 4 to enable Live Migration from 2012, but once migr ...

Processor Resources With the core fabric of a virtual machine understood, it’s time to move on to the pr ...

Figure 2. 8 Task Manager in Logical Processor view showing the physical processors and logical processor details Prior to W ...

processor’scapacityisdividedamongthevirtualprocessorsascomputationsare required.Thisworksinasimilarmannertothetimeslicingthatocc ...

Figure 2.9 A view of logical processor to virtual processor mapping Note that there is no concept of proc ...