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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:42 PM

How to make the 'Recent Events' more meaningful under Virtual Server

Virtual Server has a handy functionality where it displays the last 5 entries in the Virtual Server event log at the bottom of the master status page. One of the reasons why this is so useful is that all errors encountered by Virtual Server are logged
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:08 PM

A quick way to exit Virtual PC 2004

A little known feature of Virtual PC is that if you have a couple of virtual machines open and want to quickly exit Virtual PC all together - you can hold down the control key and click the 'X' on the Virtual PC Console. This will automatically save state
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 5:16 PM

Where has Ben been?

Hi All - sorry for the little break on my Blog. I have just bought a new house and have been tied up getting ready to move into it, so posts may be a bit sporadic over the next week or two. Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 5:16 PM

Why did Virtual PC just tell me that it has 'disabled live resolution switching'?

As I mentioned here: - Virtual PC supports the ability to change the guest resolution by resizing the virtual machine window (rather than changing the resolution through the standard dialogues). This is a very cool feature - but one of the problems that
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Friday, March 18, 2005 12:16 PM

SimCity Classic under Virtual PC

SimCity Classic was the city simulation game that started it all. In SimCity you play the role of a Mayor and get to manage the development of your city. You can build roads, hospitals, schools, police stations and more - you also get to zone areas, balance
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 10 Comments
Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:33 PM

Event scripting under Virtual Server 2005

There are a couple of ways to setup Virtual Server 2005 so that a given script / program can be launched in response to a specific event - and each way has its advantages and disadvantages. To start with - I am going to talk about using the 'scripts'
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:56 PM

Jumpman Lives! under Virtual PC

The other day I realized that I had never tried my copy of 'Jumpman Lives!' under Virtual PC. 'Jumpman Lives!' is a very nice remake of the original Jumpman that was released by Apogee in 1991. Being a fan of the original game I had immediately downloaded
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 3:09 PM

Virtual machine resizing options under Virtual PC

Normally when you are running a virtual machine, we will display a window that exactly matches the size of the guest operating systems display. This is because the guest operating system does not know it is inside of a virtual machine and believes that
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Monday, March 14, 2005 8:41 PM

What's the point of the 'Use mouse integration' setting under Virtual PC?

Amongst the many varied settings for a virtual machine under Virtual PC there is a 'Mouse' setting which most users do not use or understand. The first confusing thing about this setting panel is that it is only enabled when the virtual machine is running,
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Friday, March 11, 2005 9:07 PM

'ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire' under Virtual PC

Zork would have to be one of the all time greatest text adventure games. One of the greatest things about the Zork series is that it is based on the Zork books - which themselves are 'interactive fiction' - in that you get to make decisions as you read
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Friday, March 11, 2005 12:02 AM

Creating your own virtual machine client application for Virtual Server

The VMRC client used by Virtual Server is a basic ActiveX control. This is very handy for integrating it into your own custom client application. Starting with a blank Windows Application project under Visual Studio .NET 2003 you will need to select:
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:16 PM

Adventure under Virtual PC

This week I felt like it was time to take a walk down memory lane... For those who are unfamiliar with 'Adventure' I will quote http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html : Before there was Doom, Ultima, Rogue, or even Zork, there was... Adventure.
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:49 PM

Controlling a virtual machine through PowerPoint

A very cool hidden feature of Virtual Server is that if you have it installed on your computer you can actually setup a PowerPoint presentation that allows you to directly control a virtual machine. Why would you want to do this? Imagine doing a presentation
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Monday, March 07, 2005 11:17 PM

Loading DOS Sound Card drivers under Virtual PC

Every now and then someone will contact me asking how they can get the Sound Blaster drivers loaded under Virtual PC. The first thing that I point out is that you probably do not need to have the drivers installed anyway. DOS did not really have a strong
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Friday, March 04, 2005 8:37 PM

Skyroads under Virtual PC

Skyroads is a strange little game that I stumbled across a long time ago. The game play and graphics are relatively simple - but the game is incredibly addictive. Basically you maneuver a small space ship down a three dimensional path, through tunnels
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 10 Comments
Friday, March 04, 2005 12:05 AM

Another script to backup a virtual machine

Last week I posted a sample script that would save state a virtual machine, make a copy of it, and restore it (details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/02/25/380216.aspx ). While this is an effective solution - it can result in
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 14 Comments
Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:42 PM

Night Raid under Virtual PC

Night Raid is a very nice remake of the old school 'Paratrooper' game - which I have never been very good at playing... *cough*. Anyway - this is a fun game for killing a couple of minutes with and the graphics and animations result in a very polished
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:50 PM

Installing Windows NT 4.0 Workstation under Virtual PC

Windows NT 4.0 Workstation is not particularly difficult to install inside of Virtual PC - however there are a number of small issues that catch people up from time to time. The first thing to be aware of is that it is best to have installed Virtual PC
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
 
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