Hyper-V Integration Services

The first thing you have to do after OS setup is installing “Hyper-V Integration Services”. Integration services include:

  • Drivers for Hyper-V virtual devices like synthetic network adapter
  • Mouse integration support
  • Windows Services for communicating with host Hyper-V machine:
    • System shutdown
    • Time synchronization
    • Data exchange
    • Heartbeat
    • Backup (VSS)

To install Integration Services remove Windows Server 2008 installation DVD from VM DVD drive by click “Media -> DVD Drive -> Eject”:

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Then select “Action -> Insert Integration Services Setup Disk”:

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Restart the system after completing the installation of Integration Services.

After successful setup of Integration Services:

  • You are able to use mouse to work with VM through “Virtual Machine Connection”.
  • VM must allow network connectivity as NIC drivers were installed.
  • There are special Hyper-V Windows services running in the guest OS:

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