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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

Deploying and Updating Virtual Machines

The following are some of the more frequently asked questions when it comes to deploying a group Virtual Machines sharing common configuration. After updating the VHD and VMC, how to re-deploy the changes out to the group of physical machines After deploying Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 4:00 AM by Anonymous | 5 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 | 5 Comments

Virtual Server 2005 Support Messaging

Question: I am curious to know what this message is about: "You should use Microsoft Windows XP Professional as a host operating system only in a non-production environment." What does the non-production environment mean and is it recommended to set up Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 11:29 PM by Anonymous | 4 Comments

Virtual Server 2005 R2 is Free!

Hurray... one of my favorite technologies, Virtual Server, is now freely available for download at this location . I suggest that everyone go grab a copy and install it. Especially if you have VMWare. ... except if you are running XP Home for your "production" Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:51 AM by Anonymous | 5 Comments
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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

Does Virtual Server support multiple Floppy and CDROM drives?

Question: on a VM, is it possible to have simultaneously 2 CDROM, 2 Floppy drives, real or virtual? I have been told that is not possible under virtual PC 2004, but what about VS? Answer: You can programmatically attach multiple virtual DVD ROM drives Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 28, 2006 1:57 AM by Anonymous | 4 Comments

IIS and Virtual Server Conversations Part 2

Question: I am a 'nuts&bolts' guy - I need to know what kind of nuts and bolts to use for what kind of job, I don't need to know about the philosophy of why the nuts are having their threads inverted. Nuts and bolts have a practical use. I just want Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 24, 2005 1:15 AM by Anonymous | 0 Comments

IIS and Virtual Server Conversations

Question: In preparation to installing Virtual Server, and acknowledging the fact that it needs IIS, I would like to know: Is there any specific setup to perform on the IIS before I configure VS? Or, will it just need to be there? Also, since now I have Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:50 AM by Anonymous | 7 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 | 3 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 | 30 Comments

Why use Virtual PC or Virtual Server?

One of the popular comparisons of Virtual Machine technologies is Virtual PC vs. Virtual Server (the other being Virtual Server vs. VMWare GSX/ESX). I decided to tackle the Virtual PC vs. Virtual Server comparison with a little brain dump. This is purely Read More...
Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 7:46 AM by Anonymous | 20 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

Why do I still get a user/password Login prompt with Integrate Authentication (for Virtual server 2005 Administration website)

When Integrated Authentication is enabled, users frequently wonder why they are still prompted for username/password. After all, isn't Integrated Authentication supposed to get rid of that? Thus, the following question has come up several times when users Read More...
Posted Monday, July 04, 2005 11:55 PM by Anonymous | 22 Comments

Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:51 PM by Anonymous | 27 Comments
 
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