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Friday, June 30, 2006 5:12 PM

HoverTank 3D under Virtual PC

So it appears very few people know this - but HoverTank 3D was the first 3D first person shooter to be released by the company that would eventually be known as 'ID Software'. Released in 1991 it used EGA polygons for the walls, and had very simple graphics.
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:07 PM

Enabling sound over RDP with a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine

Virtual Server does not provide sound support out of the box - and in the past I have commented that it is possible to get sound out of a virtual machine if you connect to it via RDP and enable sound remoting under the advanced options of the Remote Desktop
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 2:38 PM

VM Additions available for Windows Vista Beta 2

Details here . Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Monday, June 26, 2006 9:06 PM

Problems with Virtual Server when shutting down the host

Some people have encountered an issue with Virtual Server when they are shutting down the host operating system. What happens is that they configure Virtual Server to 'save state' their virtual machines when the host operating system is being shutdown,
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Friday, June 23, 2006 1:16 PM

Where has Ben been?

Hi All, you have probably noticed the dearth of posts this week. Unfortunately I had some unexpected surgery (nothing major) and have been recovering from that. You can expect the posts to resume in earnest next week. Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
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Friday, June 16, 2006 9:48 PM

Cyclemania under Virtual PC

This would have to be one of the earliest CD-ROM based games I bought (though not the first). By all rights - I should hate this game. It has so many aspects that have caused me to dislike other games. It has over the top use of full motion video (because
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:44 PM

PowerShell tweaks for controlling Virtual Server

On Tuesday I talked about how to control Virtual Server from PowerShell. Since then I have come up with a couple of simple tweaks to make interacting with Virtual Server easier. Load the interop DLL as part of your profile. You can create your own personal
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:42 PM

Big Red Racing under Virtual PC

Big Red Racing is a traditional early 3D racing game. It pits you against a number of different courses - where the vehicle you drive varies per course (it is not even always a car - sometimes you will be driving trucks, sometimes boats, it all depends
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:25 PM

Controlling Virtual Server through PowerShell

A number of people have been asking me about using PowerShell to control Virtual Server. This is a very cool idea - however, out of the box it does not work. If you try and access the Virtual Server COM object (with a command like: $vs=new-object –com
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 24 Comments
Attachment(s): VSWrapperForPSH.cs
Monday, June 12, 2006 11:44 PM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta

At WinHEC we announced that we were working on System Center Virtual Machine Manager - to provide a centralized management solution for Microsoft server virtualization offerings. We are planning to make a public beta of this available in Q3 of this year
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Monday, June 05, 2006 6:54 PM

Installing Virtual Server on Windows Vista Beta 2

People have been asking me how to install Virtual Server on Windows Vista Beta 2. There are a couple of things to know in order to do this: The default install of IIS on Windows Vista Beta 2 is missing several components the Virtual Server needs to run.
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 51 Comments
Attachment(s): vistaIISInstall.txt
Friday, June 02, 2006 7:31 PM

Boppin' under Virtual PC

#### BOPPIN' v1.1 from APOGEE! #### #### Variety jammed arcade/puzzle game! #### In an alternate *arcade game* universe, you must free dozens of imprisoned enemies from other video games. Each level has unique VGA graphics in this unusual game. Violence
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Thursday, June 01, 2006 7:56 PM

Launching programs remotely via WMI

One thing that people regularly ask how to do with Virtual Server / Virtual PC is to be able to remotely, programmatically start a program running inside of a virtual machine. We do not provide anyway to do this directly with our products - however you
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
 
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