{"id":46,"date":"2008-10-03T02:40:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T10:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:33","slug":"46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"How to setup the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a free product available for download from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/servers\/hyper-v-server\/default.mspx\"><span style=\"color: #b61c23;\">Microsoft Download Center<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nIt is important to note that the product does not require Host Server license. Each Windows guest Virtual Machine which is running on it requires a license, though.<\/p>\n<p>Hyper-V Server requires:<br \/>\n&#8211; An x64-based CPU<br \/>\n&#8211; Hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-v)<br \/>\n&#8211; Hardware Data Execution Protection (DEP)<\/p>\n<p>In the following <a title=\"How to setup the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/microsoft-hyper-v-server-2008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Step-by-Step video tutorial<\/strong><\/a>, you will see how to setup the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"alignleft\" title=\"How to setup the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/microsoft-hyper-v-server-2008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How to setup the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog-pics\/free-hyper-v-server-2008.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on <strong><a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NetoMeter<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; subscribe to<a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>NetoMeter RSS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a free product available for download from Microsoft Download Center<br \/>\nIt is important to note that the product does not require Host Server license. Each Windows guest Virtual Machine which is running on it requires a license, though.<br \/>\nIn the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, you will see how to setup the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[129,131,132,130,133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}