Wednesday, April 6, 2011

SCVMM: Mount Shared ISO

I have been using SCVMM R2 for a while but one thing I never got working correctly is the ability to mount an ISO directly from the library share rather than copy the ISO to the VM. There are plenty of guides to help you get that setup. Like here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dutchpts/archive/2009/02/09/hyper-v-and-scvmm-2008-mounting-iso-s-from-a-network-share.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0

It never worked for me until I found this other little blog entry by Timothy. http://www.avianwaves.com/Blog/default.aspx?id=187&t=SCVMM-Mounting-Shared-ISOs-From-The-Lib

Basically if your SCVMM library is on the same server as the Hyper-V host you just need to add the NT AUTHORITY\Network Service user account to both your library Share and NTFS permissions.

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