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Looks like Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell are up to their old tricks again, with an awesome new tool called Disk2VHD . From the web site : Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions
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The other day, Ben Armstrong posted the steps for installing Windows PowerShell on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 . How awesome is that? A real, modern, powerful shell on Hyper-V Server! It should be noted that this also works on Windows Server 2008
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It was my New Years Resolution that I’d do an average of 2 blog posts per week this year. So far, I haven’t been doing a very good job of that, but I think I have a good excuse. I’ve been very busy with preparing to release a new tool, and now, I can
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The Remote Desktop application in Windows has a nifty little feature where you can save all of your custom settings for a specific remote computer to a single .RDP file, and then just use that .RDP file as a shortcut to connect to that remote computer
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In the RC0 release of Hyper-V, you may recall, you had to use the same QFE to Windows Server 2008 host and guest machines to get the Integration Component versions matching. In RTM, you simply need to choose the Insert Integration Services Setup Disk
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Mike Sterling just made a triumphant return to blogging by posting an article on how to add the RC1 ICs to WinPE. Check it out here . Keep in mind, though, that this only works for WinPE 2.0, which is the WinPE that is based on Windows Vista and Windows
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In an earlier post , I said that you should install Windows Server 2008 RC1 with Hyper-V Beta if you're getting error 61658 while trying to install the Integration Components in Windows Server 2003. And you should. But some people are still seeing it.
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To continue my "here's why" series of posts, I figured I'd talk about something else that a lot of our users have run into - the infamous disappearing mouse when you try to use a Hyper-V guest while TS'd (that's Terminal Services - or Remote
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I've seen a lot of users having issues with installing the Hyper-V Integration Components on Windows Server 2003 in the last few days. The error code seems to differ slightly, but it's usually similar to the message below: If you're seeing this
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I've been watching the comments - both internally and externally - about yesterday's launch of the Hyper-V Beta (yes, I know I'm on vacation, but this is exciting to watch), and I thought I'd list the answers to a few commonly asked questions. Q: How
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The bits are available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F22F69E-D1AF-49F0-8236-2B742B354919&displaylang=en There has been a lot of progress made on Hyper-V since the Tech Preview that shipped with Server RC0 and RC1.
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Those of you who have followed my blog for a while know that I've - for one reason or another - been referring to Windows Server virtualization by its codename, which caused some initial confusion. There's a reason that I did this - I knew that the name
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Sorry for the abrupt end to the posts last week, everyone. I was out sick. But fear not, for I am once again a healthy and strapping young man. And as such, I hereby return to blogging Virtual Goodness! So - automating "Viridian"
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Earlier this week, I posted instructions on how to install the "Viridian" CTP on Windows Server 2008 RC0. VMs aren’t very useful unless you can install an operating system in them, so I thought that today’s post should center on
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Welcome back everybody. I hope that you found on how to install the "Viridian" CTP to be both informative and educational. Before we move on to installing operating systems inside of VM, we should talk a little bit about how to configure virtual
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