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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:47 PM

NetWare 5.1 under Virtual PC

And now on to NetWare 5.1. This is probably my personal favorite version of NetWare. The installation is fairly straight forward - and similar to the installation of NetWare 6.0 and 6.5 . However one big difference is that NetWare 5.1 comes with drivers
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Monday, January 30, 2006 11:46 PM

POST'ing in a virtual machine

A long, long time ago - Virtual PC was originally developed on the Macintosh. For this market the team at Connectix did a lot of work to reduce the time for the virtual machine to 'POST' (this stands for Power On Self Test - and is the black and whit
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Friday, January 27, 2006 9:45 PM

Ski or Die under Virtual PC

Ski or Die was released as a sequel to Skate or Die. It took the same base concept and placed it in a snow covered background. I have to admit that while I played Skate or Die more 'back in the day' - these days I appreciate the improved game engine and
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:43 PM

Receiving Virtual Server events from a managed program

Last week I talked about how to receive Virtual Server events from a VBScript - this week I am going to talk about doing this from a managed application. To do this you need to: Setup the managed application appropriately to talk to the Virtual Server
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:41 PM

Skate or Die under Virtual PC

This is a fun game - that places you as a skate boarding enthusiast with the option to practice and compete in a variety of skate boarding activities. I used to play this game a lot - though sadly I am now hideously out of practice - and found myself
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:39 PM

NetWare 6.0 under Virtual PC

Going on with the Novell NetWare series we now come to NetWare 6.0. I have an evaluation version of NetWare 6.0 on an old CD - but I was unable to find a download link to share (sorry). Like all versions of NetWare you will need to use the modified network
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Monday, January 23, 2006 11:24 PM

Hibernation under Virtual PC

One little known fact about Virtual PC and Virtual Server is that with both of these products - it is possible to 'hibernate' the virtual machine if you wish to. However most people never do this because one of the drivers that gets installed as part
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Friday, January 20, 2006 11:27 PM

Slicks 'n' Slide under Virtual PC

Slicks 'n' Slide is a relatively recent DOS game which can be downloaded here: http://www.kann1sto.com/slicks.php . It is a rather fun and devilishly simple racing game that runs perfectly under Virtual PC. Don't blame me if you lose an hour or two playing
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:23 PM

Detecting other events under Virtual Server

Having now talked about how to detect standard Virtual Server and virtual machine events the next question is how do we go about detecting the not-so-standard events? Thankfully Virtual Server provides a generic event handler that can be used as follows:
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:21 PM

Californian Games under Virtual PC

Ahh... One of the true classics. Californian Games presents you with the ability to practice and compete in a number of subgames - like surfing, skating, BMX riding, etc... And most of these games have a surprising amount of depth to them. Californian
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:11 PM

Installing Novell Netware 6.5 under Virtual Server

A while ago now I posted about configuring the network drivers for Novell Netware . Now I would like to go through installing different versions of Novell Netware - starting with the latest edition: Novell Netware 6.5. You can download an eval version
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Monday, January 16, 2006 11:08 PM

Network duplex and speed settings inside of virtual machines

Virtual PC and Virtual Server only allow the emulated network card inside of the virtual machine to be configured for 100mbit full duplex or 100mbit half duplex connections. Occasionally this has caused confusion for users who need to specify other connections
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Friday, January 13, 2006 9:00 PM

Laser Squad under Virtual PC

Laser squad was a game made by the development team who would go on to create the infamous XCOM series - and it shows many of the hallmarks of the later games. Having said that - I never enjoyed laser squad that much at all. The interface for the game
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:57 PM

Castles under Virtual PC

Here is a game that I have not played in a long time. Castles is an interesting game - where you take the position of a medieval king who needs to spread his control over the local area. In this game you need to carefully balance money, food, labor and
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Monday, January 09, 2006 9:02 PM

Why is Virtual Server telling me that "hardware/bios/time_bytes" changed?

A couple of people have noticed strange entries in their event log for Virtual Server - like: The setting "hardware/bios/time_bytes" for the virtual machine configuration "Test virtual machine" was changed. These entries appear because Virtual Server
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:51 PM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now available on MSDN

I guess that says it all... Cheers, Ben (who is still struggling with jetlag. Grrr...)
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:18 PM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 Evaluation versions now available

Virtual Server 2005 R2 (x64) Enterprise Edition 180 Day Evaluation: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=44E55F58-993C-4D59-8143-87F9C656A1A1&displaylang=en Virtual Server 2005 R2 (x86) Enterprise Edition 180 Day Evaluation: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=803FF21D-0C62-453D-8696-7894BB549CBD&displaylang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Tuesday, January 03, 2006 8:50 PM

Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Windows Server 2003 SP1

Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Windows Server 2003 SP1 are now available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A963433C-193B-41AC-AF6E-AB7AB2DB8541&displaylang=en You will need these if you want to run Windows Server
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
 
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