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May 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:36 PM

Stopping the warning pop-ups on VMRC

Virtual Server 2005 includes a standalone VMRC (Virtual Machine Remote Control) client application - that many people like to use to control virtual machines in demonstration and training environments (where you do not want the end user to have the full
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:21 PM

http://vpc.visualwin.com hits 1000 operating systems listed!

http://vpc.visualwin.com - the website that shows you which operating systems work and don't work under Virtual PC has just listed it's 1000th operating system (for the curious the 1000th operating system was XFLD 0.2 - and was reported as working by
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Monday, May 30, 2005 2:44 PM

Portability issues with Linux under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

If you are like me - then you have quickly grown used to being able to move virtual machines around from computer to computer for convenience. However - there is one specific problem with doing this with a Linux based virtual machine - and that is that
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 13 Comments
Friday, May 27, 2005 8:29 PM

Revenant under Virtual PC 2004

Friday, Friday, Friday. Time to play games on Friday :-). Today we will be looking at Revenant ( http://www.eidosinteractive.com/games/info.html?gmid=37 ) - an Action / Adventure game where you play the role of an ancient dead warrior, revived as a Revenant
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:20 PM

Developing VM-Typer (Part 2)

Last week we starting looking at developing 'VM-Typer' - a .Net application that would allow you to automatically type in text from the host computer to an arbitrary virtual machine. The first thing we had to do was get the application up and running
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:02 PM

Galactic Civilizations for OS/2 (under Virtual PC)

Long before they got into the Windows scene, Stardock (creators of WindowBlinds and many other cool tools: http://www.stardock.com/ ) was actually one of the few commercial game development companies developing on top of OS/2. Galactic Civilizations for
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:02 PM

The importance of playing games - a lot...

A while ago now, the Virtual Server development team delivered the first internal build of Virtual Server SP1 for x64 systems for our test team to start working on. Needless to say I grabbed this build and started trying every obscure virtual machine
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Monday, May 23, 2005 11:24 PM

Text mode, Virtual PC 2004 and full screen mode

Every now and then someone notices that if they have a virtual machine running in 'text mode' (like DOS) and they put it into full screen mode - they will get a small black band at the top and bottom of the screen. We display 'text mode' at 640 x 400
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Friday, May 20, 2005 7:34 PM

Major Stryker under Virtual PC 2004

***** MAJOR STRYKER v1.4 -- BY APOGEE! ***** Triple parallax scrolling sets this action shoot 'em up game apart from any other. EGA/VGA graphics, joystick, AdLib & Sound Blaster supported. Incredible 3-D illusion of depth. Become Earth's greatest
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:43 PM

Developing VM-Typer (new series)

The other weekend I was playing around with Virtual Server - and installing Windows Server 2003 in a virtual machine. When I got to the stage where I needed to enter a product key - I thought: "How annoying - I wish there was an easy way to just copy
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:14 PM

Changes to time synchronization in Virtual Server 2005 SP1 Beta

One of the features of Virtual Machine Additions is that we synchronize the time of the virtual machine with that of the physical computer. The reason for this feature is that it is very hard to maintain an accurate timer inside of a virtual machine that
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Monday, May 16, 2005 7:39 PM

Using 5.25'' floppy disks with Virtual PC

Over the weekend I decided to peruse my collection of software to see if there was anything I had not tried running inside of Virtual PC yet - and I spied some very old software that was on 5.25" floppy disks. Much to my surprise I was able to find a
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Friday, May 13, 2005 7:47 PM

Total Annihilation under Virtual PC

Normally I try to post about gaming under Virtual PC every Wednesday and Friday. As you may have noticed it has been two weeks since I have posted about gaming - what can I say - things have been very hectic around here. But now Friday is here and Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:43 PM

Programming Virtual Server from a managed application (Part 2)

Last week I talked about using CoInitializeSecurity() in order to access the Virtual Server COM APIs from a managed application (.Net). The next thing you need to be aware of wehn developing a managed application that controls Virtual Server is apartment
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 10, 2005 8:54 PM

The new mouse filter driver in Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1 beta

When you install Virtual Machine Additions we make a number of changes to help improve the general experience of using a virtual machine. One of these changes is to enable 'mouse integration' - which is the feature where by you can seamlessly move the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Monday, May 09, 2005 8:09 PM

Configuring X.Org / XFree86 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

On the weekend I finally got around to downloading and playing with Fedora Core 4 (test 2) under Virtual PC / Virtual Server. This did - however - remind me of the fact that there is a fair amount of confusion around the configuration of X.org / XFree86
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Thursday, May 05, 2005 7:30 PM

Programming Virtual Server from a managed application (Part 1)

One of the coolest things (IMHO) about Virtual Server is that we have a completely documented COM API that allows end users and other developers to create programs that automate and interact with Virtual Server. Unfortunately doing this from a managed
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:28 PM

Pre-creation of saved state files under Virtual Server 2005 SP1 beta

A couple of people have noticed this relatively obscure addition to the Virtual Server 2005 SP1 beta release. Basically what we now do is: when you launch a virtual machine under Virtual Server we will create a blank saved state file (.VSV) that is the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Monday, May 02, 2005 11:26 PM

Improving the performance of Virtual PC over Remote Desktop

People often complain of poor performance when using Virtual PC over Remote Desktop (also known as RDP or Terminal Services). The reason why this happens is because to Remote Desktop, Virtual PC is just a rapidly refreshing bitmap with unknown contents,
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 10 Comments
 
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