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HOWTO: Monitor Virtual Server Events

I think Virtual Server Events and Asynchronous Tasks are two of the least utilized features of the Virtual Server Administration API. Contrary to the often-asked task of "find the VM, turn it off, manipulate its VHD, then turn it back on", which shows Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:14 AM by Anonymous | 9 Comments

HOWTO: Perform VHD Maintenance Automatically

Question: I would like to have a night script to run on guest machines and perform the following tasks: 1. start / restore from saved state if machine is not running (preferably disconnected from network in order to preserve resources) 2. run on the guest Read More...
Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 6 Comments

HOWTO: Install Virtual Server VM Additions Unattended

Question: I was wondering if it is possible not to have the virtual machine additions installation eject the iso image after installing, maybe an undocumented switch. I have created a custom OS installation CD and anything to be installed after VMA will Read More...
Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 3:35 AM by Anonymous | 6 Comments

HOWTO: Pose Answerable Questions, My Top 10...

Today, I decided to do a sweep through my backlog of private blog comments which I have not yet composed a response to. There are about 120 comments going back six months in this state. Honestly, it is getting progressively harder for me to blog regularly Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:30 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments

HOWTO: Remotely start and stop a Virtual Machine on Virtual Server 2005

Here is one of the usual questions about Virtual Server - how to remotely control the Guest VM. Actually, Virtual Server 2005 Administration API is pretty rich and supports these scenarios - you just need to write a little bit of code to do so. Small Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 31 Comments

HOWTO: Kickoff. Wait for Asynchronous Virtual Server Task Completion

Ok, lately I have been very busy with IIS7 related milestones, so I am a little drained mentally. Thus, I will talk about a "simpler" topic that should still be useful useful... just not as much prep work for me... Virtual Server. :-) This will be the Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:06 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments
 
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