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Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:59 PM

VMC to Hyper-V Import Tool

Matthijs ten Seldam has produced a cool tool that allows you to take your existing Virtual PC / Virtual Server .VMC files and import them into Hyper-V.  This tool does not do any fix-up on the virtual hard disk (i.e. you will still need to uninstall
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:21 PM

Updated VHDs Available

There are a couple of interesting VHD updates that have recently come out: The Internet Explorer team have provided updated "IE Compatibility" test virtual machines, which now include an IE6, IE7 and IE8 Beta 1 virtual machine. Download available here:
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:15 AM

Windows Server 2008 VHDs Available for Virtual Server / Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition evaluation VHDs are now available for Virtual Server and Hyper-V.  They are available full and core installation options.  You can get the Hyper-V VHDs from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=060f0c51-339a-4c4e-bb6e-716bb7401fd4&DisplayLang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:20 PM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update now Available

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a79bcf9b-59f7-480b-a4b8-fb56f42e3348&displaylang=en KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948515 Details: This update to Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 adds support for the following operating
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:16 PM

Virtual PC 2007 SP1 now available

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=28c97d22-6eb8-4a09-a7f7-f6c7a1f000b5&displaylang=en Release notes: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9f3d3eb5-5e03-4712-999c-e96f91bdf128&displaylang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 24 Comments
Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:01 PM

Interesting Article on Virtual Server backup

Over at Virtualization Review, Chris Wolf has posted an interesting article on combining Virtual Server VSS backup with VHD mounting to have a scheduled backup that only backs up a subset of files from inside a virtual machine. Go check it out: http://virtualizationreview.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=2426
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Friday, March 07, 2008 1:24 AM

Virtual Server Backup Information

Just stumbled across some very thorough documentation on backing up Virtual Server with Acronis True Image and Microsoft Data Protection Manager: Backup and Recovery using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 and Acronis True Image 9.1 Enterprise
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Friday, March 07, 2008 12:09 AM

BgInfo and Virtual Machines

Here is a handy tool to use with virtual machines.  BgInfo allows you to display information about the system on the desktop wallpaper including the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. This is useful when you have a large number
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:42 PM

Using Virtual PC to Evaluate EEE PC

For a while now I have been eyeing off the Asus EEE PC . I liked the look of it and wanted to get one as a 'mobile email client' to use at Microsoft. However there were two significant issues for me. The first was that it only supports a display of 800x480
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 11 Comments
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:21 PM

Using BitLocker under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Up until recently, I thought it was impossible to use BitLocker drive encryption under Virtual PC / Virtual Server (because the virtual machines do not have a TPM for BitLocker to use).  However, thanks to Pascal Sauliere, I now know how to do this. 
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 12 Comments
Friday, January 11, 2008 3:58 PM

Problems with Virtual Server and Automatically Restarting Virtual Machines

Per this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941125 There is a known issue with Virtual Server and virtual machines which are configured to 'save state' when the system is shutdown - and then to automatically restart when the system is powered
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Friday, January 04, 2008 2:21 PM

Running Virtual PC under Hyper-V Beta

They say that a picture speaks a thousands words, so: Yes!  This is Windows Server 2008 running the Hyper-V beta with Windows Server 2003 installed in a virtual machine, which in turn has Virtual PC 2007 installed and running Windows 98. And the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:55 PM

Things that Virtual PC needs to be run as Administrator for...

For the most part Virtual PC is able to happily run when you are using a non-administrative user account and everything will work.  There are - however - a couple of things that will not work correctly unless Virtual PC is run under an Administrative
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
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
Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:29 PM

Troubleshooting corrupt VM configuration files with Virtual Server

If you have an installation of Virtual Server that has been working correctly - but now you are finding that: The Administrative website loads, but does not display any virtual machines. The Administrative website loads, but displays an error message
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
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