July, 2010

Over on the virtualization team blog – Mike Sterling has just announced the availability of the Linux Integration Services v2.1 .  And there is a lot to announce here.  Along with the previous support for our high performance virtual storage...

Well, the week is over so I thought I would quickly share some links. Vijay has posted a great article on how to install the SP1 beta on our standalone Hyper-V Server product .  So now you really have no excuse to not be looking at dynamic memory...

If you are thinking about trying out dynamic memory in the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 beta release – here are some handy resources to read before you get going: Dynamic Memory Technical Overview whitepaper This paper talks about what dynamic memory is...

At TechEd this year we announced that dynamic memory would be supported for virtual machines that were running the following guest operating systems: Windows Server 2003 Web, Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server...

Starting today you can download the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 beta release.  For Hyper-V this specifically means that you can start evaluating the following new Hyper-V features: Dynamic Memory – the new feature that allows Hyper-V to dynamically...

Over the last couple of weeks I have been playing around with some new (for me) server technology.  This has been a lot of fun – and I have been learning a lot.  However, a couple of days ago things started to go wrong. Specifically I started...

For a while now I have been seeing random people complaining about the fact that they cannot install Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 Home Editions (Basic or Premium).  This always struck me as odd – as I was sure that this was a supported configuration...

Here is a good question: If you are using iSCSI for all of your storage needs; should you use a software iSCSI initiator inside the virtual machine to connect the iSCSI storage directly to the virtual machine, or should you connect the iSCSI storage to...