August, 2006

Virtual Server R2 SP1 BETA2 is now available for download, it includes: AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) compatibility Intel Virtualization Technology (IVT) compatibility Volume Shadow Copy Service support Offline VHD mounting Active Directory...

I love this game. Grim Fandango is the first 3D adventure game done by LucasArts and it is just beautiful. The graphics are spectacular, the music is wonderful and the story is intriguing. You take the role of Manny Calavera, a walking skeleton in the...

So while I was playing with System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 I hit an annoying little bug. Basically if you try and connect to a virtual machine, via VMRC, and the virtual machine has a space in its name - instead of connecting you will see...

A number of people have commented to me on the rather steep requirements to run Beta 1 of System Center Virtual Machine Manager . And I have to agree - with the requirement of: Domain joined 32-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 PowerShell RC1 Net...

In case that wasn't obvious! So why is Ben saying this today? Well I have been setting up a personal domain environment for playing around in - and to be honest it is getting quite complex. By now I have a domain controller, a file server, an iSCSI server...

A while ago I talked about how to run VBScripts that control Virtual Server on a remote computer . Well recently I was asked how to do this if the computer running the scripts does not have Virtual Server installed either. Normally this would fail – as...

I recently ran into a case where I was seeing rapidly repeating keys under a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine. I was also contact by one of the virtual machine MVPs who was seeing the same problem under Fedora. After a bit of poking around...

A while ago I posted that the SCVMM Beta was accepting nominations - but now there are bits available to download! To download the beta (if you are already registered): Go to http://connect.microsoft.com/vmm/downloads Sign in with your Passport...

Ah the joys of computer game sequels. Like most sequels, Mortal Kombat II was basically like Mortal Kombat - with a few tweaks and enhancements. Mortal Kombat II has Shang Tsung, the bad guy mastermind from Mortal Kombat as one of the fighters - which...

I recently threw together this short script to allow me to see what size a virtual hard disk was created as, and how much space it is currently using: 'Connect to Virtual Server Set virtualServer = CreateObject("VirtualServer.Application") 'Create...

This is a great game. Mortal Kombat was one of the first arcade games where the best consumer port was to the PC (IMHO). Mortal Kombat is one of the classic fighting games and introduced a number of new features. First - Mortal Kombat used photographic...