In case you wonder, as I did a few days ago, what Hyper V is, here is a simplified answer (the Wikipedia will tell you more):

Hyper V is kind of like Virtual PC for Servers on Steroids: it allows you to efficiently run and manage a whole bunch of different VMs on one machine. Hyper V is a role that is added to Windows 2008 Server (or Windows 2008 Server R2). Once you add the role, some strange things actually happen to your Windows Server installation: it actually becomes it’s own ‘parent partition’ on the server, so that ...

Today I had an interesting battle getting some Virtual Machines connected to the Internet from within their host operating system, Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper V.

Initially, the baffling thing was that I could not enable my Broadcom wireless network adapter on the host partition itself, i.e. from Windows 2008 Server. I dual boot my machine, the other boot option is Windows 7, and it has not problem at all using the card. So I knew there was nothing wrong with the card. Also, the Device Manager on Windows 2008 Server reported that the network adapter was working just fine. I would ...