February, 2010

We have just released an updated version of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities that now adds support for Hyper-V, plus we have updated the Hyper-V Migration Guide. You can grab the bits from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

A while ago I talked about how I use Hyper-V in my house . One of the problems that I identified with my current setup was that I had most of my virtual machines (except for the Windows Home Server) running on the same disk as the system disk for the...

The easiest way to connect a smart card to a virtual machine is to use remote desktop to connect to the virtual machine, and enable smart card sharing. Since Windows Virtual PC uses remote desktop technology you get this out of the box. However this...

I have been asked this one a lot of times now, so I thought I would pen a quick blog post on this. A lot of people are looking at using Windows XP Mode to allow them to access websites that still need Internet Explorer 6 / 7. Unfortunately Internet Explorer...

Over the weekend I spent some time going through my dusty archives of a virtual machines, bringing them all across to Windows Virtual PC and making sure they were all up to date. One of the virtual machines that I worked on was a Windows XP Tablet Edition...

With Windows Virtual PC we changed our shared folders to be based on the drive sharing code from Remote Desktop. The advantage of this change is that shared drives are now much more stable, reliable and better performing than shared folders ever were...

First, a caveat. This is not supported. Most of what I am about to talk about is not supported. Feel free to use this information, but do not call Microsoft if it does not work for you. With that out of the way – this morning I was asked how to get...

The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters project have just put up the sample code for a Hyper-V ActiveX RDP control, available here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ddc/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3833 What this allows you to do is...

The Windows Server Performance team have done a really interesting post on how to optimize network performance inside of virtual machines by increasing the size of the VMBus buffers used by our network adapters. They also do a very good job of explaining...

Today Anton – from the Hyper-V development team – released the Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter tool. What this tool does is allow you to take the saved state files from a Hyper-V virtual machine and convert it to the memory dump format that...