Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

December 2007 - Posts

Monday, December 31, 2007 4:13 PM

Installing Fedora Core 8 on Hyper-V

Anyone who has installed Linux on Virtual PC / Virtual Server knows that while yes, Linux is supported on these platforms, and yes, it does run well after getting it setup - installation can be a downright pain.  It is for this reason that I take
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 17 Comments
Thursday, December 27, 2007 5:55 PM

Hyper-V Clustering

If you haven't seen this one yet - Robert Larson has done an excellent post on how to configure Hyper-V Clustering: http://blogs.technet.com/roblarson/archive/2007/12/17/building-a-host-cluster-with-hyper-v-beta-1.aspx Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 5:04 PM

Installing the Hyper-V Beta in a Core configuration

Today I would like to talk about installing Hyper-V on a Windows Server Core configuration.  All you need to do is: Follow steps 1 to 4 from Installing the Hyper-V Beta . Proceed through the installation screens and select to do a "Server Core
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, December 21, 2007 3:56 PM

Installing Windows Server 2008 on the Hyper-V Beta

So once you have the Hyper-V Beta installed and up and running you will probably want to start making virtual machines and playing with them.  Of all the possible guest operating systems - Windows Server 2008 is the 'premier' one, in both performance
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 10 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:08 AM

Updated Documentation for Hyper-V Beta now available

Release Notes: http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/4/8/e48d5cff-53d2-4eed-85bf-4af50e25b78c/relnotes.htm Step-by-step guide: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/b/6/1b687175-0b30-4f56-bb58-2349b2ee1c98/Step-by-Step_Guide_to_Getting_Started_with_Hyper-V.doc
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:04 PM

Installing the Hyper-V Beta

A couple of people have already posted on how to get going with the Hyper-V beta - but I thought I would try and do a detailed step-by-step guide. So here we go: The first thing to do is to make sure you have the right hardware. To quote from the release
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 12 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, December 17, 2007 11:35 PM

Virtualization Podcast with Eric Traut

Go check it out: http://www.dabcc.com/podcastdetail.aspx?id=43 Stolen directly from DABCC: In the following Microsoft Virtualization Podcast, Douglas Brown interviews Eric Traut, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer. Eric is responsible for the Windows Kernel
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Friday, December 14, 2007 3:26 PM

Hyper-V Beta Demo's

Check them out: Video: Symmetric Multiprocessing with Windows Server virtualization (Hyper-V) Video: Virtual networking with Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V Video: Virtual storage for Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:21 AM

Hyper-V Beta now available for download!

Go and get it while it's hot: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F22F69E-D1AF-49F0-8236-2B742B354919&displaylang=en This is Windows Server 2008 RC1 with the Hyper-V Beta components.  Lots of changes since the preview, huge
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 10 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:44 PM

Server and Domain Isolation Demo VM's

Thanks to Dugie for bring this to my attention - there is a great server and domain isolation demo set of virtual machines available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=13a0ab69-2113-482e-a6d1-911aff9e9e2d&displaylang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:28 AM

Windows Server virtualization (Hyper-V) Step-by-Step guide available

Well, if you have not got around to checking out the community technical preview build of Windows Server virtualization (Hyper-V) in the Windows Server 2008 RC0 build - there is now a nice "Step-by-Step" guide that walks you through the process
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Filed under:
 
Page view tracker