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Adding VirtIO drivers to Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE)

3 December 202123 November 2021 by Jan Reilink

How to customize your Windows System Restore

If you need to add VirtIO drivers to your Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) to recover your Windows virtual machine, here is how. The following steps come in handy if you found out the hard way you don’t see any disks in Windows RE after a hard crash. As have I…

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Setting up Monit monitoring in Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL

2 December 202110 March 2019 by Jan Reilink

A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog article about setting up Monit monitoring on an Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V. Now it’s time to do the same, but then in Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL. So, without further ado, here is how to install and configure Monit monitoring in Windows 10 WSL.

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Windows Server 2016 on Hyper-V stuck at stopping

3 December 202128 February 2018 by Jan Reilink

… and the guest server VM won’t reboot

If a Windows Server 2016 guest VM on Hyper-V hangs while stopping after Windows Updates, it might be caused by the recovery debug information type set. Especially when you have moved the Windows PageFile to a different partition/VHDX.

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List all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V Virtual Machines

2 December 202112 August 2016 by Jan Reilink

You sometimes need to list and get all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V virtual machines in your network. Either for your Hyper-V administration or provisioning if you don’t set an unique MAC address automatically. Here is how to get all those MAC addresses easily with PowerShell.

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Get Hyper-V guest serial number with PowerShell

3 December 202120 September 2015 by Jan Reilink

How to retrieve the Hyper-V virtual machine’s serial number with PowerShell? Sometimes you need to have the serial number of a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM, or guest). We, for instance, use this serial number in our automatic, unattended deployment of the guest operating system. But then you need to know how to find this serial number…

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Monit monitoring on Ubuntu 14.04 VM on Hyper-V

2 December 202115 February 2015 by Jan Reilink

In this post you’ll learn about setting up a Monit monitoring service for your websites and services. Monit is a free and open source service monitoring application which can perform various event-based actions. Monit can send email notifications, restart a service or application, or take other responsive actions. We set Monit up on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM, built on Hyper-V. And we use Monit to monitor several websites, and send out notifications on downtime.