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Hyper-V Server on a Presario Notebook

I thought it would be neat to have Hyper-V Server on a notebook, with Windows 2008 SBS as a guest OS, and then load some more legacy OS'es to test a piece of software I was developing. I have a 1.5-year old Compaq Presario (Core 2 Duo) lying around and I used it. I chose to install the Hyper-V Server clean before installing any guest OS'es. That went fine and trouble free. Not a squeak that the CPU was or was not suitable. T Then searched around and found that Hyper-V Manager was needed. I downloaded the version for Vista 32-bit. It installed fine. But it won't connect. Complained with the famous error: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer XXX Did some tedious preparatory steps as indicated in John Howard's blog . But I just did: 1) create the common user, 2) netsh advfirewall ... 3) DCOMCNFG on the client. Hyper-V Manager now connects fine and I can instal