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Emergency Windows 2008 activation workaround

I was in a tight spot one night after I decided to move a Windows 2008 based VM from a VMWare based host server to a Hyper-V based host.
This resulted in most of the hardware changing within the guest VM and in turn forced a reactivation of the OS. The problem was I couldn’t get [...]

How to manually merge snapshots in Hyper-V

We are great fans of virtual machines here at G2 and we regularly use both VMWare and Windows Hyper-V to virtualise devices, particularly old legacy servers. Both VMWare and MS provide the ability to create snapshots of virtual machines, effectively saving the state of a virtual machine and it’s hard disks at a given point in time.