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January 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:35 PM

Examining Virtual Hard Disks through Powershell

OK, today I would like to try making a script to display virtual hard disk information under Powershell. Here is a simple little script that will do the job: Param([String]$vhdName) $vs=new-object –com VirtualServer.Application –Strict $result = SetSecurity($vs)
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:24 PM

Listing virtual machines under Powershell

There are a lot of things you can do with Virtual Server and Powershell by just interacting with the COM object directly at the command line. There are, however, a couple of things that are quite hard. One of the first things you might run into is that
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:07 AM

Querying guest operating system information with Powershell

I recently posted how to query guest operating system information using VBScript . It was pointed out to me that this was much easier to do using Powershell, so here is a sample script that will do the same thing with Powershell: $vs=new-object –com VirtualServer.Application
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:59 PM

Fallout under Virtual PC

Fallout is one of my all time favorite games. It is a role playing/adventure game set in a post apocalyptic wasteland. You are a member of an underground vault that has survived a nuclear war, however due to mechanical failure your vault is about to run
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Monday, January 22, 2007 11:51 PM

Is virtualization bad for hardware sales?

The other day I was reading this article: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4324 which proposes that virtualization is going to cause troubles for hardware vendors. It is certainly a logical conclusion to come to, I mean if you can run more operating systems
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:36 PM

Gathering virtual machine guest OS information

Here is a simple script to display information about the guest OS of a running virtual machine: Option Explicit dim vs, vm Set vs = CreateObject("VirtualServer.Application") set vm = vs.FindVirtualMachine("a virtual machine") 'Display information about
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Monday, January 15, 2007 11:43 PM

Fixing broken virtual networking

Periodically I receive emails from people who find them and they start Virtual PC/Virtual Server, it reports that it was unable to initiate virtual networking on any network adapters. There are two common causes of this problem, though they both seem
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 31 Comments
Friday, January 12, 2007 8:27 PM

Pirates! Gold under Virtual PC

How many times can you release the same game? In the case of Pirates! it turns out the answer is three. The original Pirates! was released in 1987. Pirates! Gold, released in 1993, was the first version to be available on the PC. This game has recently
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:20 PM

Gathering processor information about running virtual machines

Under Virtual Server each virtual machine has access to the same processor capabilities as are present in the physical computer. This sample script uses the Virtual Server COM API to find out the processor capabilities that are currently available for
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:01 PM

Castle of the Winds under Virtual PC

Castle of the Winds is one of my old favorites. It is an adventure game in the style of rogue or net hack, however it is a fully graphical game that runs on top of Windows, and almost everything is done with the mouse. I was surprised to find out recently
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:42 AM

ReactOS under Virtual PC

I've been meaning to do this for a while, but I've finally had a chance to play with ReactOS ( http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html ). For those of you who have not heard of this operating system, it is an the open source operating system with the ambitious
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Monday, January 08, 2007 2:22 PM

Extracting files from the Virtual PC installer

A number of people have asked me how to get the Virtual Machine Additions from Virtual PC 2004, without having to install Virtual PC 2004. To do this you will need to download the Virtual PC 2004 installer (from: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:43 PM

Floppy disk image formats supported by Virtual PC and Virtual Server

Virtual PC and Virtual Server allow you to create and use 1.44MB (high density 3.5" media) and 720KB (double density 3.5" media) floppy disk images. However they also support a number of other formats. The supported formats are as follows: Size: 360KB
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 13 Comments
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:59 PM

Why won't the Virtual PC 2007 Virtual Machine Additions load on Windows 95?

A number of people have been confused by the fact that the Virtual Machine Additions that are included with Virtual PC 2007 fail to install on Windows 95. The reason for this is twofold: Windows 95 is not supported under Virtual PC 2007. With each release
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:25 PM

Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

You can download it from: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads.aspx?SiteID=288 Some key changes from previous builds include: PXE Boot Support Keyboard / performance issues on laptops addressed (yay!) Virtual Networing on wireless adapters
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 30 Comments
 
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