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August 2006 - Posts

Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:05 AM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 BETA2 is available for download!

Virtual Server R2 SP1 BETA2 is now available for download, it includes: AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) compatibility Intel Virtualization Technology (IVT) compatibility Volume Shadow Copy Service support Offline VHD mounting Active Directory integration using
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 15 Comments
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:55 PM

Grim Fandango under Virtual PC

I love this game. Grim Fandango is the first 3D adventure game done by LucasArts and it is just beautiful. The graphics are spectacular, the music is wonderful and the story is intriguing. You take the role of Manny Calavera, a walking skeleton in the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 5:47 PM

Bug with connecting to virtual machines under SCVMM

So while I was playing with System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 I hit an annoying little bug. Basically if you try and connect to a virtual machine, via VMRC, and the virtual machine has a space in its name - instead of connecting you will see
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Monday, August 28, 2006 11:52 PM

Using virtual machines to run System Center Virtual Machine Manager

A number of people have commented to me on the rather steep requirements to run Beta 1 of System Center Virtual Machine Manager . And I have to agree - with the requirement of: Domain joined 32-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 PowerShell RC1 Net 3.0 WS Management
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:06 AM

Virtual Machines Rock...

In case that wasn't obvious! So why is Ben saying this today? Well I have been setting up a personal domain environment for playing around in - and to be honest it is getting quite complex. By now I have a domain controller, a file server, an iSCSI server,
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 19 Comments
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:49 AM

Running Virtual Server scripts on a computer without Virtual Server

A while ago I talked about how to run VBScripts that control Virtual Server on a remote computer . Well recently I was asked how to do this if the computer running the scripts does not have Virtual Server installed either. Normally this would fail – as
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 6:14 PM

Repeating keys under Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

I recently ran into a case where I was seeing rapidly repeating keys under a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine. I was also contact by one of the virtual machine MVPs who was seeing the same problem under Fedora. After a bit of poking around it
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Monday, August 07, 2006 2:15 PM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 now available for download

A while ago I posted that the SCVMM Beta was accepting nominations - but now there are bits available to download! To download the beta (if you are already registered): Go to http://connect.microsoft.com/vmm/downloads Sign in with your Passport or Windows
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Friday, August 04, 2006 9:17 PM

Mortal Kombat II under Virtual PC

Ah the joys of computer game sequels. Like most sequels, Mortal Kombat II was basically like Mortal Kombat - with a few tweaks and enhancements. Mortal Kombat II has Shang Tsung, the bad guy mastermind from Mortal Kombat as one of the fighters - which
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 12 Comments
Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:46 PM

Handy little VBScript to inspect virtual hard disks

I recently threw together this short script to allow me to see what size a virtual hard disk was created as, and how much space it is currently using: 'Connect to Virtual Server Set virtualServer = CreateObject("VirtualServer.Application") 'Create a VHD
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:23 PM

Mortal Kombat under Virtual PC

This is a great game. Mortal Kombat was one of the first arcade games where the best consumer port was to the PC (IMHO). Mortal Kombat is one of the classic fighting games and introduced a number of new features. First - Mortal Kombat used photographic
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
 
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