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July 2009 - Posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:40 PM

[HDoaLC] Power Management

One of the biggest challenges I have hit with using a Hyper-V virtual machine on my laptop as my desktop environment has been power management.  I was expecting this, as Hyper-V has been designed for servers and not for laptops. The first issue I
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:00 AM

Windows Virtual PC + Seamless Applications + Task Bar = Wrong Icons?

I have been asked a couple of times why the icons in the task bar for seamless applications are all wrong.  If you look at this picture: You will see that while I have three seamless applications running, and they display correctly under task manager,
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:23 PM

Windows Virtual PC Executables

Unlike Virtual PC 2007, Windows Virtual PC is comprised of multiple executables.  As such you may have a some trouble trying to figure out what is actually running when you look at task manager.  Here is a list of the Windows Virtual PC Executables,
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:20 PM

Linux Integration Components (v2 RC2) for Hyper-V Now Available

The release candidate 2 version of the second generation of the Linux integration components for Hyper-V are now available for download.  You can get the bits from here: https://connect.microsoft.com/SelfNomination.aspx?ProgramID=1863&pageType=1&SiteID=495
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Monday, July 20, 2009 2:35 PM

Hyper-V Linux ICs now available under GPLv2

The Hyper-V integration component drivers for Linux have now been formally released under the GPLv2 license.  They are currently available in Greg Kroah-Hartman's tree (aka, the Linux Driver Project ).  These are the Linux drivers for VMBus
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:37 PM

[Script] Listing Virtual Machines with Windows Virtual PC

To get things started here, I thought I would put up some samples for the most basic scripts I could think of for interacting with Windows Virtual PC. So here is a sample script that just lists the virtual machines that are currently registered on the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:40 PM

[HDoaLC] Sorting out Wireless Networking

I have been using a virtual machine for my main desktop for just over a week now – and so far I am enjoying it (all the blog posts this week have been written from inside the virtual machine). The first problem that I faced was getting networking up and
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:27 PM

Windows Virtual PC and PowerShell

In the past I have lamented about how hard it is to use PowerShell to control Virtual Server .  Luckily it is much easier with Windows Virtual PC.  There is no need to load interop code – instead you can just point PowerShell at Virtual PC and
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Monday, July 13, 2009 5:41 PM

Developing against Windows Virtual PC

One of the big “under the covers” features of Windows Virtual PC is that it now has a programmable COM API that is based off of the Virtual Server COM API.  In fact – I have been able to take many of my existing Virtual Server scripts and turn them
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:28 AM

VDI / RDP / Hyper-V / Laptop Challenge

I was reading Brian Madden the other day, and saw his post about trying out RDP 7 for his main desktop system .  After giving it some thought – this inspired me to take a similar challenge myself. We have spent a lot of time working with the Remote
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 15 Comments
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:45 PM

Hyper-V Management Tools update for Windows Vista Service Pack 2

If you have installed Windows Vista Service Pack 2 on the system that you are using to manage Hyper-V – you should grab this update: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970203 Note that this is an “update” which means that you need to have the original version
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
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Monday, July 06, 2009 5:28 PM

Fixing a missing “Create Virtual Machine” option [Windows Virtual PC]

Some people are finding that when they install Windows Virtual PC, their Virtual Machines folder does not have the option to Create Virtual Machine . If this happens to you – there are three options that you can try: When in the Virtual Machines folder,
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
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