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February 2007 - Posts

Updated HP ProLiant Server Sizer for Virtual Server 2005 R2

I have posted about this in the past, but HP have updated their virtualization sizing tool. This is a very nice tool that allows you to enter a bunch of data about the physical hardware that you want to consolidate, and then makes recommendations about

Mike talks about virtualization strategy and direction

For those of you who have not seen, Mike Neil has recently made a blog post talking about the overall direction of virtualization at Microsoft. Go check it out here: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/02/25/Where-we_2700_re-headed-with-virtualization.aspx

LaserWars under Virtual PC

Man! It has been too long since I've done a gaming post. Sorry for all the seriousness :-). But on to the topic at hand, LaserWars under Virtual PC. This is a fun little shareware program from 1994. You and your opponent both control a tank that is capable

Multi-monitor fullscreen mode compatibility with Virtual PC 2007

Just wanted to take some time to highlight a minor feature of Virtual PC 2007. With Virtual PC 2004 we heard a lot of feedback from users running on multi-monitor systems that wanted to be able to keep a virtual machine in fullscreen mode on one monitor

Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

Virtual PC 2007 was released in final form for download today. You can read more about Virtual PC 2007, and download it, from the newly updated Virtual PC website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx . Some key features

Upcoming virtualization webinars

I have just been informed that we will have a number of webinars coming up in this month. If you're interested, you can check out the available sessions at: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/techinfo/events/default.mspx There

Nice article about using loopback adapters with virtual machines

Just a small note to say that here is an interesting article written by one of the virtual machine MVPs on using loopback adapters to communicate between the host and virtual machine environments when a network connection is not available: http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/33644
 
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