Virtual Varia

It’s been a very long time since I’ve written anything on this blog, as the very observant of you are likely to notice.  I’ve been involved in some pretty amazing projects here in Windows, and I haven’t had much time for anything other than those...

Starting back in 2006, I wrote a post about how to enable Aero Glass support for Virtual Machines by using Remote Desktop / Terminal Services.  Last August, I wrote another post describing how Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 is able to make Aero...

Do you hate switching back and forth between your PowerPoint slides and a PowerShell window every time you want to demo something? Apparently, so did Capt. Recursion… er… I mean John Robbins of Wintellect.  That’s why he created PowerShellPoint ...

Looks like Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell are up to their old tricks again, with an awesome new tool called Disk2VHD . From the web site : Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions...

I’ve seen quite a few posts about this problem lately - both in public, and on internal Microsoft mailing lists - so I thought it might be best to write up a quick blog about it. This is one of those cool little problems that you can debug with almost...

I have to admit, I really don’t quite get Twitter.  My first experience with it probably wasn’t the best one. It was with Twinkle on my iPhone, which – if you don’t know – will not only show you the people you’re following, but will also show you...

I’m between video games right now, so I thought that I’d take a look at what’s available in the Xbox Live Arcade.  There was one game that caught my eye, simply because of the name.  As you may have guessed from the title of this post, that...

Back in 2006, I posted an article about how to get Glass running in a VM .  The trick was to use Remote Desktop on a Glass-enabled machine to TS into a VM which is running the same OS.  If the build of the OS on your workstation is different...

:: Yawn ::  No big news here.  Microsoft just released the Hyper-V Integration Component drivers for Linux. As Open Source.  Under the GPL v2. Yup.  Just another standard, run of the mill… wait, what?   No, seriously.  It...

I just wanted to post a quick note to all of you that I haven’t given up on the podcasts or anything like that. I’ve been extraordinarily busy over the last few weeks – and the next few weeks are going to be just as busy.  As such, I haven’t had...

Of course you do. And in this episode of the Virtualization Nation Podcast, I’ll show you how. But first, a little background. Earlier today, I posted a description of the new Native VHD integration in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Microsoft...

Some of you may remember that, a long while ago, I asked what sort of things you'd like to see in a Virtualization-themed podcast. Though it's been over a year since that post, I've still been thinking about starting a podcast and talking with other people...

That’s right, folks.  In celebration of the release of the Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate, I’ve updated WIM2VHD with bugfixes and new features! What’s new?  BUGFIXES!  All of the bugs (except for one) on the Code Gallery issue...

So, I know that I've been promising everyone some new videos explaining some of WIM2VHD's features. And I really have been working on them. I have most of them captured, but editing them... is not going so well. I've been using Windows Movie Maker...

The webbernetz are abuzz with news that a new version of Ubuntu has been released today. As such, I figured that I should post instructions on how to get it going under Hyper-V. Now, I know that these steps are pretty complex, so I'll try to use as...

Every now and then, I like to visit the WIM2VHD website and see how many people have downloaded it.  Aside from the ego boost, it’s a nice little figure to pass on to my management so they can see that this project was worth the time that I’ve spent...

This is a pretty common question on our internal mailing lists, and I’d imagine that it’s common outside of Microsoft as well, so I thought it would make a nice blog post (since I’m way behind on blogging…). So, you have a VM that’s joined to a domain...

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on putting together a new set of videos for WIM2VHD, but I’ve run into a bit of a problem. I’m creating a video that goes through and explains the different command line options for WIM2VHD, but the end result, even after...

Hi everyone, I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for the amazing response to WIM2VHD!  We’ve had over 300 downloads since the script went live last week.  It’s nice to know that some of you are finding this tool useful. As you may have...

The other day, Ben Armstrong posted the steps for installing Windows PowerShell on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 .  How awesome is that?  A real, modern, powerful shell on Hyper-V Server! It should be noted that this also works on Windows Server 2008...

It was my New Years Resolution that I’d do an average of 2 blog posts per week this year. So far, I haven’t been doing a very good job of that, but I think I have a good excuse. I’ve been very busy with preparing to release a new tool, and now, I can...

Tim Sneath posted this last night, and I wanted to share it with all of you Windows 7 users out there.  Now, I’ve been using Windows 7 throughout the entire development process (since just after Vista RTM), and after reading through this list I actually...

Ever wonder what a Microsoft ship party looks like? If you take a stroll through Microsoft’s Redmond campus on Google Street View, you’ll get to see one.  On the day that Google decided to drive through campus, we were celebrating the RTM of Hyper...

Well, it looks like I was too slow in getting my posts written, because a bunch of people have beaten me to the punch. Ben Armstrong – also known as the Virtual PC Guy – wrote a post about getting Windows 7 working on Hyper-V. Similarly, Brian Keller...

You know… just in case you haven’t heard it.  I’m sure there aren’t a lot of people talking about it or anything, so you might have missed it .  (There’s some good information in that link – I highly advise you to click on it if you plan on...