I’ve been in the process of moving to Windows 2008 “Workstation,” and at the same time taking advantage of some 64bit goodness.   Previously I had been running Server 2003 on my development laptop, and getting quite a bit of work out of Virtual Server - now that everybody is all excited about Hyper-V I thought I’d give that a shot.

Everything went fine until I tried to suspend my laptop late last night - the sleep | hibernate options are gone!  Running “powercfg -a” just says that “An internal system component has disabled this standby state.”

According to Ben Armstrong, you can’t have the Hyper-V role enabled and still be able to standby, they are utterly incompatible.  So now I have to make a choice - what would cost less time, having to start up and shut down more, or not being able to use Hyper-V?  I’m going to leave Hyper-V as-is and see how it goes…

If you want sleep, you have to uninstall the Hyper-V role.

Tony Rasa Esoterica