Creating Windows 2003 Hyper V Virtual Machines

Creating the virtual machine is straight forward, however there's a little trick with the windows 2003 machines. The integration setup can only be run with windows 2003 SP2, and without integration setup, we can't get any mouse interaction on the server.

So the idea is to copy the service pack 2 file onto the server and installed it with only keyboard interaction.

1. Create a new virtual machine. (Add in a legacy Network Device)
2. Install the VM with windows 2003 server.
3. Use keyboard (TAB, Shift-TAB, Spacebar, etc..) to navigate thru the setup wizard.
4. Once installation completes, use keyboard to navigate to network connection.
OR
you can use netsh command to key in an IP address for the server.
5. The reason we are using "Legacy network device" is because before Integration Setup is ran, the server will not recognize the normal network device. So configure "Legacy Network" connection with an IP and do a file transfer to copy the Service Pack 2 file over.
6. Run the service pack 2 file, restart as required.
7. Run the Integration Setup, restart as required.

Now the server is ready to be used as normal.