Hyper-V and Dynamic Memory and Disks

provels

Just a general question. On your VM, do you run dynamic disks and/or memory? Any issues? Also, do you normally have your VM set to "Save" or "Shut Down" on server reboots? Thanks for any replies.

nzkiwi68

2.4.4_p3 (x64) - Hyper-V Virtual Machine on Server 2016 free hypervisor
Gen 2
2 v-CPU
2 GB RAM (Fixed)
30GB Disk vhdx (Dynamically expanding)
Packages : FreeRADIUS
Automatic Stop Action: Save

Note: For Gen 2 machine to work set Secure Boot disabled

SteveITS

@provels said in Hyper-V and Dynamic Memory and Disks:

or "Shut Down" on server reboots

A shut down is only going to work if the VM is running the Hyper-V guest tools, so it has a way to tell the VM OS to shut down.

nzkiwi68

@teamits Shutdown does work.

FreeBSD has built-in Microsoft Hyper-V integration services for a while now, really good support since FreeBSD 11.1 (which is the entire pfSense 2.4 branch).

pfSense does support shutdown from Hyper-V - I've tested it..

Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/supported-freebsd-virtual-machines-on-hyper-v