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Friday, September 30, 2005 10:26 PM

Worms World Party under Virtual PC

Worms World Party was released two years after Worms II. Apart from sporting support for DirectX 7.0 the general graphics of this game are eerily similar to Worms II. The biggest difference between Worms II and Worms World Party is the addition of a number
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:21 PM

Scripting launch dependencies under Virtual Server

With more complex virtual machine configurations you might find that you have dependencies on the order in which virtual machines should be launched (for instance one virtual machine may be a domain controller - while the other virtual machines are members
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:20 PM

Worms II under Virtual PC

Worms II takes the typical computer game sequel approach of taking the original concept and duplicating it with nicer graphics and more options. And this time the result is quite nice. Worms II is a Windows application - and runs well under Virtual PC
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:16 PM

Configuring restricted access under Virtual Server

It is possible (though not well documented / understood) to configure Virtual Server such that a restricted user can interact with / control only a subset of the virtual machines on a given installation of Virtual Server. The first step is to launch the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Monday, September 26, 2005 10:14 PM

Securely configuring virtual machines

When it comes to configuring virtual machines in a secure fashion - the most important thing to keep in mind is that you need to treat virtual machines just like they are separate physical machines. This includes dealing with the following issues: Network
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Friday, September 23, 2005 5:18 PM

Worms under Virtual PC

Now here is one heck of a game. Worms is a fun little game made by the guys at Team 17 . It takes the original 'Artillery' game concepts and adds the interesting twist that rather than manning tanks that are trying to blow each other up - you are controlling
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:57 PM

Sizing memory for virtual machines appropriately

For some of you reading this - this post will seem like I am stating the obvious - however the question of how to determine the correct amount of memory for a virtual machine is one that gets asked of me quite regularly. To answer this question I am going
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 10 Comments
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:28 PM

Solar OS under Virtual PC

It is always nice to get some time to play around with a completlely new operating system. Recently a friend of mine pointed me toward Solar OS . This is an interesting little OS completely written in assembly and designed to be simple yet elegant. Solar
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Monday, September 19, 2005 8:42 PM

Virtual PC vs. Power Management

It seems that people are constantly running into problems running Virtual PC on laptop systems with advanced power management. The reason for this is that Virtual PC is very demanding on hardware and has very strict timing requirements - and as each new
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 15 Comments
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:23 AM

Virtual PC / Virtual Server and Antivirus programs on the host computer

Occasionally we hear reports of customer seeing bad interactions between Virtual PC / Virtual Server and antivirus programs on their host operating system. This seems to happen because Virtual PC / Virtual Server are making large amounts of changes to
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:17 PM

Virtual Server 2005 now in MSDN!

Woo Hoo! As of today Virtual Server 2005 Standard will be included in all MSDN Enterprise and Universal Subscriptions. This is great news for all developers out there! Have fun with it :-) (details at: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/default.mspx
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Friday, September 09, 2005 10:17 PM

Getting ready for PDC...

I must apologies for the dearth of posting this week - but it is for good reason. I am busy getting ready to head down to PDC05 . As we speak I am polishing my collection of demonstration virtual machines that I will be using in my presentation. Believe
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:28 PM

Quake II under Virtual PC

Quake II ( http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake/quake2/ ) was one of the first games to truly take advantage of hardware support for 3D acceleration - in fact I purchased my first 3D video card because of Quake II (it was an 8mb Creative Voodoo II card).
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 7:46 PM

Making networking more robust under SuSE 9.3 under Virtual PC

I do not know when this happened - but in the last couple of releases of SuSE Linux they have taken a weird dependency on the MAC address of the network card. To be precise - once you have configured your network card under SuSE - changing it's MAC address
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:34 PM

Heading down to Dixie’s

This summer we have had a Program Management Intern, Pat Mauro, working on the virtual machine team (on top secret stuff of course). Given that tomorrow is Pat's last day on the team before he heads back to the joys of college education we decided to
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
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