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July 2007 - Posts

Monday, July 23, 2007 9:45 AM

Off on holiday...

Well - I am heading out for a couple of weeks of well earned rest. I will also be speaking at TechED Australia and New Zealand this year - so if you are attending either of those - try and drop by and say hello. In the mean time blog posts are going to
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Friday, July 20, 2007 12:36 PM

Virtualization displayed on the Windows Server 2008 Component Posters

Thanks to Dugie for the heads up here. We have just released some big honkin' Windows Server 2008 component posters - and one of the components displayed is Windows virtualization. Very nice. Go check it out here: details.aspx-FamilyID=c2b9e44e-0bbd-47cb-bc09-b3d48be7f867&DisplayLang=en
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:28 PM

Troubleshooting VHDMount

If you are having problems using the VHDMount tool that is included with Virtual Server 2005 SP1, something to do to help you to figure out what could be going wrong is to run: SET VHD_MOUNT_TRACE=1 Before using VHDMount. Then you will see tracing information
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:24 AM

Updated Toshiba m400 BIOS with VPC Compatibility

Anyone with a Toshiba m400 (like me) will know that there have been issues running VPC 2007 with hardware virtualization support enabled on one of these laptops. Thankfully Toshiba has just released an updated BIOS for the m400 which addresses these issues.
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Monday, July 16, 2007 11:37 PM

Support for greater than 64 virtual machines in x64 VS 2005 R2 SP1

Another change that has come with Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1 is a change to the limit on the number of virtual machines that you can run on a single computer. Previously Virtual Server has been limited to only be able to run 64 virtual machines
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Friday, July 13, 2007 12:37 PM

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 under Virtual PC

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is one of the last of the great platform games. It was also one of the only ones to be released as a Windows 95/98 only game. You play the role of a gun wielding green rabbit out to stop the space turtles from taking over the universe.
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:27 PM

VS 2005 R2 SP1 Active Directory Marker

Another new feature of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 is that it now has an Active Directory marker that allows you to identify installations of Virtual Server in your domain environment. John Howard has posted a useful VBScript that shows you how to access
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:27 PM

VS 2005 R2 SP1, VMRC and -fullscreenstretch

Reading the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 readme, I came across this: New VMRC client option to enable video stretch in full screen mode A new command-line option -fullscreenstretch has been added to the VMRC client. With this option, the console opens in
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:20 PM

Changes to Guest OS Support with VS 2005 R2 SP1

Looking at the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 release notes, you will find the following list of new guest operating systems that are supported with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (non-production use only) Windows Vista™ Business (non-production
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Friday, July 06, 2007 5:15 PM

X-Wing under Virtual PC

Now this is a classic, the original DOS version of X-Wing. The game where you got to play as part of the rebellion and try to overthrow the evil empire - you even get to participate in the final run on the Death Star. This game had many things that made
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 20 Comments
Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:53 PM

Looking at the GuestOS.ComputerName property

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 added a few new bells and whistles to the COM API. One of these is the GuestOS.ComputerName property. This property allows you to get the network name of the virtual machine through the COM API. Option Explicit Dim vs, vm, vmName,
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 10:53 PM

Controlling simultaneous VMRC connections

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 provides a new option to allow you to control multiple simultaneous VMRC connections: Now, under Virtual Server 2005 R2 or earlier you could always have multiple people connected to the same virtual machine via VMRC at the same
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:15 PM

Citrix Presentation Server Evaluation VHD available for download

Citrix has just provided an evaluation version of their Presentation Server available as a virtual machine through our VHD Testdrive program. This is a fairly hefty download - but you can be up and running within minutes of finishing the download. All
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Monday, July 02, 2007 4:25 PM

Virtual Server management tool - VMRCPlus now available

As mentioned here - VMRCplus is a free tool that allows you to use Virtual Server without having the web interface installed - and it is now available for download. Now to add a bit of background for those of you wondering where the heck this tool came
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