VM Times

For all of you wanting to hear more news about Windows 8, here’s the latest. Windows 8 will include Hyper-V! This is definitely an upgrade from Windows 7 and having to install Virtual PC, which only supported running 32bit VMs. Hyper-V has come a long way since it’s inception…most notably Dynamic Memory.

Also to note, Microsoft had to come up with a solution for wireless NICs to work with Hyper-V. Engineers used Microsoft Bridging, which implements ARP proxying (for IPv4) and Neighbor Discovery proxying (for IPv6) to replace the virtual NICs’ MAC address with the WiFi adapter’s MAC address for outgoing packets. The bridge maintains an internal mapping between the virtual NIC’s IP address and its MAC address to ensure that the packets coming from the external world are sent to the appropriate virtual NIC (see graphic).

For more info and a brief video visit the MSDN blog here.