cnt 4603: system administration spring 2011 installing virtual machine additions in vms

CNT 4603: Installing MS Virtual PC 2007 Dr. Mark Llewellyn ©

CNT 4603: System AdministrationSpring 2011

Installing Virtual Machine Additions in VMs

CNT 4603: System AdministrationSpring 2011

Installing Virtual Machine Additions in VMs

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceUniversity of Central Florida

Instructor : Dr. Mark Llewellyn [email protected]

HEC 236, 4078-823-2790http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cnt4603/spr2011


Installing VMA In Virtual PC 2007

• You should now have Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 installed on your system.

• You should also have created a VM running Windows Server 2008.

• This set of notes will introduce you to the VMA (Virtual Machine Additions) that you will need to install in each VM that you create inside VPC.

• VMA is software that you install inside the guest OS of a VM that provides a performance boost for the VM as well as added features that make it somewhat easier to move between the virtual and physical environments on your host machine.


• Unfortunately, most of the performance benefits of the VMA are noticeable only under Windows NT4, 2000, or XP as guest OS. Since we will be mostly dealing with Server 2008 and Vista, we won’t expect the guest OS to benefit much from the VMA.

• However, the user environment will be significantly enhanced via VMA installation, so you should perform this install in each VM you create.

• The next couple of pages illustrate the primary benefits of the VMA installation.



Mouse Integration:

– Prior to installing VMA, you must press the right ALT key to free the mouse in order to move it from a window within the VM into a window in the physical environment. After installing VMA, you can move freely between the host environment and the virtual environment. VMA tracks the location of the mouse pointer and makes it active in the appropriate window.

Clipboard Integration:

– VMA allows clipboard integration. You can cut or copy from a VM to the host OS and vice versa. However, you cannot cut, copy, and paste from one VM to another VM.



Drag and Drop:

– VMA also supports drag and drop from the host to a VM and vice versa. As with clipboard integration, you cannot drag and drop from one VM into another VM.

Time Synchronization:

– When VMA is installed, the system clocks of all VMs will be synchronized with the host machine’s clock. This is particularly important if you need to process files between the VMs.

Arbitrary Video Resolutions:

– VMA allows you to select an arbitrary video resolution. This means that you can resize a VM window. This is significant…you will not need to adjust the screen resolution within the VM to change the window size.



Customized Video Drivers:

– VMA automatically installs video drivers that are optimized for the OS running in the VM. VMA provides better graphics resolution and access to additional video RAM.

Shared Folders:

– VMA makes it easy to share folders between the host and the VMs. (See next page illustration.) A folder in the host OS is mapped to a drive letter in the VM.




• The next several pages step you through the installation process of the VMA in the VM you created when you installed VPC 2007.

• If you haven’t created the VM yet, do so before proceeding.


Click the “Action” option and then click “Install or Update Virtual Machine

Additions”


Click the “Continue” option from this dialog

box.


Click the highlighted “Run setup.exe” option.


Click “Next”.


Additions are being installed. The next screen

you should see will indicate successful

completion.


Click “Finish”.


Click “Yes” to restart the VM and allow the VMA to

take effect.



• You should now have Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 installed on your system.


Installing Microsoft Virtual PC 2007


Viewing Server Roles in Server 2008• Before the next class you should do the following on the

VM running Windows Server 2008 that you’ve installed in VPC.

• Open the Server Manager (it should be on your taskbar; if not click Start then Server Manager).

• Scroll down and you’ll come to the Roles Summary. Once the data has been collected by the server, you should see that there are 0 of 16 installed roles.

• Click Go to Roles.

• You should now see the screen shown on the next slide. Follow the remaining steps as illustrated.


Viewing Server Roles in Server 2008

Click “Add Roles” to start the add

roles wizard.



Read this page, but don’t do any

of the things mentioned on this page. Then click

“Next”



Select each of the 16 possible roles, and read the description that is provided for each of the possible server roles.

When you’re done, click “Cancel” and shut down the VM.

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