How to determine virtual machine host name "virtual server"
Recently had a problem where the lab folks forget where my VM was installed to and I needed some RAM added to it. I needed to find the physical host name of the machine the VM was running on. Turns out that there is a handy dandy reg key one the VS devs pointed out to me:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters\PhysicalHostName
Hope it helps someone, I spent quite some time trying to figure it out on my own.
spat
Published Friday, April 03, 2009 7:22 AM by SpatDSG
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11 comments:
Awesome find!
Can also be set using sysprep (in sysprep.inf)
thanks for the find, really helpful
Thanks for the tip. It was very useful!
awesoem .. thanks
Hi todd,
How do we figure out the virtual host for a VMWare virtual machine?
Hi
Its not working. I couldn't find out any entry like what you said.
In SOFTWARE folder, there is no option as VIRTUALMACHINE.
Hi Ganesh,
If the machine is a Hyper-V VM then you will find the registry key, But if its a VM-Ware VM then this key wont be present. But in many places in the registry you will find VM-Ware as the value like for example the Moterboard name etc.
Very helpful, thanks for taking the time to help :-)
Thanks Todd.
This is really helpfull.
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