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Monday, September 24, 2007 5:37 PM

Windows Server virtualization Community Technology Preview now available

As announced here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/sep07/09-24windowserverrc0.mspx Window Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 is now available for download (you can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/Windowsserver2008/audsel.mspx
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 20 Comments
Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:33 AM

Why is there no LPT port listed under Virtual PC?

Every now and then I get an e-mail from someone who is trying to connect the LPT port under Virtual PC, but is finding that there is no LPT port listed on the LPT port settings page. Usually the reason for this is because Virtual PC only supports use
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 11 Comments
Monday, September 17, 2007 1:51 PM

How to enable duplicate MAC addresses on Virtual Server 2005R2

Just wanted to pass this one a long, is embarrassingly enough I actually learned about this on one of our public newsgroups. By default Virtual Server 2005R2 will detect if you have virtual machines on the same box configured with duplicate MAC addresses
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Friday, September 14, 2007 1:32 PM

Flying Tigers under Virtual PC

This is an old vertical scrolling flying shooting them up style game, similar to Raptor in many cases, but not as polished. The story behind this game is fairly flimsy and tells of bad guys who got control of time machines-which sets the stage for you
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:35 PM

QuickStart for Get Virtual open for Microsoft Gold Certified partners

Link: www.quickstartgetvirtual.com This is a new site from Microsoft that is all about giving Microsoft Gold Certified partners material and information that they need to help get their customers up and running with Microsoft virtualization. Feel free
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:41 PM

Windows Server virtualization screencast

Keith Combs has done an excellent screencast demonstrating some of the features of the upcoming Customer Technology Preview release of Windows Server virtualization. Go and check it out here: http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2007/09/13/windows-server-2008-screencast-virtualization-10-minute-tour.aspx
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:27 PM

Microsoft and Citrix extend virtualization alliance

We have recently announced that Citrix will use the Microsoft VHD format in future versions of it’s Desktop Server and virtual application solutions. Yay for VHD :-) Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:58 PM

Windows Server virtualization customer preview to be included in Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate

This has already been mentioned in a couple of places , but in case you missed it the upcoming Windows Server 2008 release candidate will increase a customer technology preview release of Windows Server virtualization. So now's the time to make sure that
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Monday, September 10, 2007 1:34 PM

DMTF accepts new open virtual machine format

You can read the full press report here . The summary is that a number of industry members working on virtualization (Microsoft included) have been working on an open virtual machine format, which is now been accepted by the DMTF (distributed management
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Friday, September 07, 2007 3:48 PM

Captain COMIC under Virtual PC

You are Captain Comic, galactic hero. Your mission is to recover three treasures from the planet Omsoc, which have been stolen away and hidden on the remote planet of Tambi. Your task will not be easy, you will need to gather tools to increase your fighting
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:40 AM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 now RTM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 has been released to manufacturing. Key features of SCVMM include: Centralized deployment and management of virtual machines Intelligent Placement analysis to determine the best servers for virtualization Quick
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:08 PM

WinImage converts VMDKs to VHDs

I have raved about the benefits of WinImage before but now with the latest version (8.10) it allows you to convert VMware virtual hard disks (VMDKs) to Virtual PC / Virtual Server virtual hard disks (VHDs) - which is pretty cool. Note that it does not
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:47 PM

Command & Conquer available for free download

Okay, so not really Virtual PC or Virtual Server related (except that I have posted about Command & Conquer under Virtual PC before - here and here ). But EA have made the original Windows 95 version of Command & Conquer available for free download.
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
 
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