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Monday, October 31, 2005 10:16 PM

Windows Virtualization Architecture Presentation

So this has been out for a while - but I only just stumbled across it the other day. It is the PowerPoint presentation that we presented at WinHEC this year; where we outlined the architecture for Windows virtualization technology. You can check it out
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Friday, October 28, 2005 5:24 PM

Kiloblaster under Virtual PC

KILOBLASTER 2.0 -- from EPIC MEGAGAMES! A superb 256-color VGA animated arcade game, 30 levels of fun & wild digitized artwork! Supports VGA, Joystick, and a Megacool sound track for the Sound Blaster. The makers of Jill of the Jungle have returned
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:14 PM

Detecting Microsoft virtual machines

From time to time it is handy to be able to detect that you are running inside of a virtual machine (for instance - you may have maintenance scripts that you want to run on all of your computers - but have them behave differently inside of your virtual
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 10 Comments
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:57 PM

Xargon under Virtual PC

Having got Jill of the Jungle to run - I think I will spend some time playing all of my old Epic Mega games. It seems that though many of these games are quite different stylistically - they all use the same engine - which means that in order to avoid
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:47 PM

Setting up a Ghost network disk for Virtual PC / Virtual Server

It is not uncommon for people to need to setup a Symantec Ghost ( http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ ) network boot floppies to run inside of Virtual PC / Virtual Server. Symantec provide a nice wizard to do this with - but unfortunately they do not
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Monday, October 24, 2005 9:25 PM

Problems with Intelppm.sys and processr.sys under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Under certain circumstances with a Windows XP / 2003 operating system - intelppm.sys and processr.sys can cause a virtual machine running under Virtual PC / Virtual Server to crash (by default this will cause the Windows guest operating system to reboot
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Friday, October 21, 2005 10:54 PM

Jill of the Jungle under Virtual PC

Ahh... Jill of the Jungle. This is one of those classic games of DOS gaming. Released by Epic Mega during their hey-day this game is a solid platformer - with you playing the role of 'Jill' an Amazonian woman who needs to get through all of the levels
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:35 PM

Kernel debugging Windows XP inside of a virtual machine

Something that is incredibly easy to do with virtual machines is kernel debugging. You can do this by either connecting two virtual machines to the same named pipe (creating a virtual null-modem cable as it were), or by debugging a virtual machine directly
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:53 PM

Hexxagon under Virtual PC

Hexxagon is a simple little game - and is a derivation of a very old game (other derivations are known as reversi, othello, attacks, etc...). I do not know why but for some reason I have always enjoyed playing this particular game - as it is a very nice
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:28 PM

Using COM Ports for logging under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

One interesting feature of Virtual PC / Virtual Server is the ability to map one of the virtual machines COM ports to a text file on the host computer. This can be very handy for logging information on automated tests / batch jobs running inside of virtual
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Monday, October 17, 2005 9:51 PM

Edit --> Copy under Virtual PC

A while ago now I posted about the Edit --> Paste feature of Virtual PC - but I forgot to mention it's sibling - Edit --> Copy. Once you have a running virtual machine under Virtual PC you can go to the Edit menu of the virtual machine and select
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Friday, October 14, 2005 1:41 PM

One year blogging anniversary

Well - exactly one year ago today I wrote my first post to this blog. 52 weeks and 227 posts later (at an average of 4.365 posts per week) we find ourselves here. I thought that this would be a good chance to answer some of the common questions I get
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
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Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:19 PM

Virtual Networking and Wireless network adapters

Some people have noticed that our support for virtual networking when using a physical wireless network adapter is a bit hit and miss. The reason for this is because in order to perform our virtual networking - we implement an OSI layer 2 filter driver
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 10:17 PM

Red Baron under Virtual PC

Red Baron is one of those classic DOS games where the original owner has been kind enough as to release it as freeware - so that all of us classic gaming aficionados can appreciate it. Red Baron is a great plane flight simulator set in the World War I
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:33 PM

More details on new server licensing plan...

Well - a bunch of folks have had questions about the nitty gritty details of yesterday's virtualization licensing announcement - so I thought I would share some helpful resources on this. First there is a 10 page licensing breif available here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/9/68964284-864d-4a6d-aed9-f2c1f8f23e14/virtualization_brief.doc
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Monday, October 10, 2005 8:52 AM

Microsoft anounces new virtualization friendly licensing

Woo Hoo! I love days like today :-). Today we have announced new licensing plans for our server software which is much more virtualization friendly. I quick summary of the changes is as follows: New virtualization use rights for Windows Server™ 2003 R2
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 15 Comments
Friday, October 07, 2005 11:26 PM

Playing Galactix under Virtual PC

Here is a game that I had forgotten about - but used to love. It is a relatively simple space ship shooting game - but some of the things I like about it are: It has a surprisingly intuitive mouse interface It has the interesting feature of having a 'claw'
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:15 PM

Nice KB Article on troubleshooting network performance / connectivity issues

I am constantly helping people to resolve network connectivity issues and just the other day I found out that we have a really nice KB article already written on this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888750/ Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:13 PM

Worms Armageddon under Virtual PC

Wrapping up on the Worms series of games we come to Worms Armageddon . This game is very similar to Worms World Party - but once again with slightly better graphics and slightly more polish. Worms Armageddon can run just fine under Windows 2000 / Windows
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:16 PM

Configuring NAT via using the Microsoft Loopback Adapter and Internet Connection Sharing

In previous posts I have mentioned using the Microsoft Loopback Adapter for advanced networking scenarios. Today I am going to talk about how to team up the Microsoft Loopback Adapter with the Internet Connection Sharing capabilities of Windows to construct
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
 
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