Windows 10: Hyper V: Integration Services for Windows Home Server 2011 VM?

I have created a Windows Home Server 2011 VM as a guest OS inside of Windows 10, which is the host OS. The VM is working and the networking is working (whew!). But I cannot figure out a way to get the integration services working. I've already selected Enhanced Session Mode in the Hyper-V Manager and Guest Services in the Integration Services portion of the VM settings. Can someone please provide me with a clue on how to get this working?


Thank you.

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Hyper-V on Windows Home Edition?

In my "Services (Local)", the following are listed:

Hyper-V Data Exchange Service

Hyper-V Guest Service Interface

Hyper-V Guest Shutdown Service

Hyper-V Heartbeat Service

Hyper-V Remote Desktop Virtualization Service

Hyper-V Time Synchronization Service

Hyper-V VM Session Service

Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Requestor

Since Hyper V isn't supposed to be on Windows 10 Home, I'm wondering what's going on and why it is in my Services. Are there any other services which would appear in Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise or Education that shouldn't appear in Windows 10 Home Services?

Thanks!

 

Importing Virtual PC -> Hyper V

Thank you. I followed the instructions below, and when I go to hit the action menu to install Integration services, of course, there is no such option under the Action Menu. The instructions seem so simple but I'm still missing something...

Step 4: Install or upgrade integration services

Hyper-V includes a software package for supported guest operating systems that improves integration between the physical computer and the virtual machine. This package is referred to as integration services. To learn more, see Integration
Services.

This step can't be automated or done within a Windows PowerShell session.

To install integration services

• 
  Open Hyper-V Manager. From the Server Manager Tools menu, click Hyper-V Manager.
  
• 
  Connect to the virtual machine. Right-click the name of the virtual machine and click Connect.
  
• 
  From the Action menu of Virtual Machine Connection, click Insert Integration Services Setup Disk. This action loads the setup disk in the virtual DVD drive. Depending on the guest operating system installed, you may
  need to start the installation manually.
  
• 
  After the installation finishes, all integration services are available for use.
  

 

Anyone?

 

If you have Enhanced Mode working, you already have all possible integration features present. What are you / do you think you are missing?

 

Well I don't have access to the USB devices plugged into the host computer, and there's no sound.

 

What are you trying to get sound from? Does media content the server distributes not have sound? Sound in Hyper-V itself is not available by default (but then why would a Home Server need sound anyway?).

 

The why doesn't matter. I want sound from my media items stored on this image. In particular, I want to turn this WHS2011 into a plex server.

 

A Plex server does not need any audio itself; missing audio features on the server do not affect the content streamed to other hardware. You can have your WHS 2011 server without audio features, make it a Plex server, and stream content to other devices which will get full audio.

 

Fair enough, though I was hoping to use it for local playback. Though I wanted it to accomplish one more thing for me: be a network print server. It can't really do that if it has no access to USB peripherals.

 

Hi there.

If it's serving multi-media to remote devices - say smart TV's / chromecast thingey's etc the home server at least will have to be able to transmit / serve audio and video files. This doesn't mean that sound needs to be present on the home server itself but it needs to be able to serve the files correctly.

@elessar --Plex is great -- the easiest way is to use a CHROMECAST device (really cheap) plugged in to your remote TV (connect via HDMI) and then use an app on say a tablet / smartphone to control the casting to your remote device. - Works brilliantly. The Android app is FREE as well and PLEX works on Linux too.

You don't need PLEX to PLAY on your server - just serve the music / video files.

Hint use PLEX VIDEO scanner rather than MOVIE scanner when creating your libraries if you have a lot of LOCAL content stored on local HDD's. Chromecast / PLEX will play FLAC too if you want uncompressed music. If you do this use the TV's OPTICAL sound output for best quality. Creating the initial MUSIC library can take a bit of time if you have a large music library. The Video libraries get created very quickly.

If your PLEX SERVER is running from a VM using a Chromecast device is ideal as you can disable any transcoding FROM the plex server reducing the load on the server. The OS built in to the chromecast can handle almost any codec - including HEVAC !!
For once google has come up with something cheap and good.

Cheers
jimbo

 

That will solve the Plex Server issues, but what about the print server? Is that possible in my Hyper-V scenario?