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February 2008 - Posts

Friday, February 29, 2008 4:32 PM

Warheads on Virtual PC 2007

Wow, it has been far too long since I posted about gaming and virtualization...  So today I would like to talk about Warheads.  This is a wacky little game released by Ionos Interactive and Total Play in 1997.  It is basically a version
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 12 Comments
Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:41 PM

Hyper-V, Virtual Machine CPU usage and Task Manager

A number of people have asked me about the fact that the CPU usage reported on the Hyper-V Management console does not match the CPU usage reported under task manager.  The answer to this is fairly complicated - so I thought it would make a good
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:20 PM

Hyper-V and Power Management

When you enable the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2008 support for sleep / hibernate will be disabled.  The reason for this is that supporting these features on a hypervisor based system is incredibly complicated - and Hyper-V is designed to run
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:28 PM

Hyper-V and slow guest OS installation

I have seen a number of reviews and comments about the fact that while Hyper-V virtual machines appear to be quite fast once they are up and running - operating system installation seems to take quite a while.  The reason for this is relatively easy
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Monday, February 25, 2008 5:53 PM

Hyper-V Terminology

Well, I just realized that I had dived into talking about how to do things with Hyper-V without first taking the time to orient you on some of the terminology used.  So I would now take the time to correct that.  Note that many of these terms
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:34 PM

Booting Hyper-V VMs off of iSCSI?

Recently there has been some confusion over whether it will be possible to boot Hyper-V virtual machines off of iSCSI. I would like to clear this up with a strong statement of "No, but yes!" :-) Okay - now for the longer answer. Hyper-V virtual machines
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:08 AM

Virtualization Clustering and Processor Compatibility

Generally speaking I try to pretend that the rest of the Internet does not exist, and just happily talk about my technology. However when I find members of my own team confused about statements made on others blogs / news sites I guess I am compelled
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:21 PM

Some Random Links

Sorry for the dearth of posts - I have been rather busy lately.  As such I thought I would quickly throw out some nice links. My colleague - John Howard - has done a great series of posts on using Terminal Servers Gateway + Terminal Services Web
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Monday, February 04, 2008 11:58 AM

Hyper-V Scripts and User Account Control

Last week I posted a bunch scripts for interacting with Hyper-V and a couple of you have contacted me about issues running these scripts on systems with User Account Control enabled.  By default 'Administrators' are only allowed to access the Hyper-V
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Friday, February 01, 2008 9:55 PM

Mounting a Virtual Hard Disk with Hyper-V

You can mount a virtual hard disk under the parent partition with Hyper-V and a simple script: VBScript: Option Explicit   Dim WMIService Dim VHDService Dim VHD   'Specify the VHD to be mounted VHD = "F:\Windows.vhd"   'Get instance
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 10 Comments
 
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