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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:15 PM

Using Virtual Machine Connection (stand alone)

While you are probably used to connecting to a virtual machine from the Hyper-V manager snap-in, it is possible to just run the Virtual Machine Connection directly.  On a computer where you have the Hyper-V management tools installed, go to the Hyper-V
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Monday, April 21, 2008 9:02 PM

Authentication Errors with Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection

If you are getting an "Authentication Error" when trying to connect to a virtual machine under Hyper-V,  you can open the Hyper-V Settings (from the main MMC page) and disable the use of default credentials under the User Credentials section. 
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Monday, April 14, 2008 4:01 PM

Creating a "no hypervisor" boot entry

From time to time I want to run Virtual PC / Virtual Server on my Hyper-V system.  While I can do this with the hypervisor running, the result is that Virtual PC / Virtual Server run quite slowly.  An easy fix for this is to create a second
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Friday, April 11, 2008 11:16 PM

Risk under Virtual PC 2007

Released in 1989, this was the first "official" computer version of Risk.  As such it goes a long way to try and replicate the board game in as much detail as possible.  It even goes as far as allowing you to pick whether you are playing
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:40 PM

Hyper-V VM Settings UI Tweaks

A slightly hidden option on the virtual machine settings dialog under Hyper-V is that you can enable or disable the settings summary display on the left pane by right clicking on the left pane and unchecking the option to show summaries: You can also
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:56 PM

Virtual Hard Disk Wizard Integration in Hyper-V VM Settings

A neat little touch in the Hyper-V virtual machines settings is the integration of the virtual hard disk wizards: If you go to the hard disk settings page for a virtual machine you can click on the New button - which will open the new virtual hard disk
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 2:47 PM

Copying a Physical Disk to a Virtual Hard Disk with Hyper-V

Under Virtual PC / Virtual Server, if you wanted to copy a physical hard disk to a virtual hard disk you had to make a linked virtual hard disk and convert it.  With Hyper-V we have gotten rid of the concept of linked virtual hard disks, and instead
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Monday, April 07, 2008 2:37 PM

Attaching Physical Hard Disks to Hyper-V VMs

Hyper-V brings us the ability to attach a physical hard disk directly to a virtual machine.  In order to do this the hard disk in question needs to not be identified as "removable" by Windows.  It also needs to be in an offline state. 
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:44 PM

When you try to enable, disable, or update Hyper-V technology, the process stops responding

A KB article ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/950792 ) has just been posted about problems that people are encountering with installation / uninstallation of Hyper-V RC0.  This is caused by and incompatibility with the Hewlett-Packard
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:11 AM

Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V RC now Available

Updated integration components for Hyper-V RC are now available for download.  You can find out more about this here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/04/01/linux-integration-components-for-hyper-v-rc-now-available.aspx Note that
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