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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:53 PM

How to get the mouse working with Ubuntu 7.04 under Virtual PC

I know a lot of people have been trying to get Ubuntu 7.04 working under Virtual PC - and have been hitting the problem that the mouse does not work. Well - details of how to get the mouse working have now been posted here: http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/fixing-ubuntu-704-fiesty-fawn-mouse-under-virtual-pc-2007/
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:53 PM

A new Virtual Server management tool: HyperAdmin

HyperAdmin is a custom management interface for Virtual Server. If you want to try it out - you can download it from here: http://www.hyperadmin.com/download/ Also - some demonstrations of the user experience are available here: http://www.hyperadmin.com/screencast/
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:49 PM

Be careful with VHDs and Windows XP Compressed Folders

Just thought I would put a note out here to say - beware! I know a number of people who have lost data after trying to compress VHDs with the "Compressed Folders" feature of Windows XP. Per KB301325 : When you create a compressed folder (ZIP file) that
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 15 Comments
Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:55 PM

Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop and Virtual Server White Paper

I missed this one when it went up last month - but if you are interested in what the Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) licensing plan is all about - check out this white paper: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A4EA33F8-9F6A-4279-B8C8-DA5AE268922D&displaylang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:26 PM

NUMA and Virtual Server

Before I get started on this topic - let me pause to address the first question that many people will have - what is NUMA? NUMA stands for ' Non-Uniform Memory Access '. NUMA is an architecture for multiprocessor computers. On a non-NUMA system memory
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Monday, May 14, 2007 3:53 PM

Slowing down virtual machines

A common request that I hear is that people want a way to create a 'slow' virtual machine. Usually this is because they have an old game or application that has problems when run on modern, fast computers. The problem is that Virtual PC and Virtual Server
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Friday, May 11, 2007 12:03 AM

VBScript to uniquely assign MAC addresses across servers

A while ago I was asked if I had a script that could assign a unique static MAC address to a virtual machine. I did not - and thought I would write one - which turned out to be a lot more effort than I thought! To give some background here - Virtual Server
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:49 AM

Mike Neil provides Windows Server Virtualization updates

Mike Neil has provided updated information about the Windows Server Virtualization release here: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/05/10/viridian-features-update-beta-planned-for-longhorn-rtm.aspx He covers pretty much everything there
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:41 PM

Recovering a lost Virtual PC Console

For various reasons, from time to time, people report that they can no longer access the Virtual PC Console. Inevitably, Virtual PC has decided to open the Virtual PC Console off the edge of the visible screen. Virtual PC stores the information about
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Monday, May 07, 2007 11:29 PM

SCVMM Beta 2 now available for download in a VHD

Good news for those of you too lazy to install SCVMM to try it out - it is now available as a pre-canned virtual hard disk that you can grab from the SCVMM program at http://connect.microsoft.com . Of course, the great thing about this is that you can
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:00 PM

Interesting article on using disk imaging tools with Virtual PC

I just read this article by John Paul Cook (a virtual machine MVP) and thought you all might be interested in checking it out: http://www.vmcentral.com/home/case-studies/solving-virtual-machine-maintenance-problems-with-disk-imaging-by-john-paul-cook
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:44 PM

Vista, Virtual PC and full screen text display

One of the less noticed changes to Windows Vista is that it no longer supports displaying in 'full screen text mode'. This means that if you open a command prompt - you cannot put it into full screen mode. However - you can put a Virtual PC virtual machine
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
 
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