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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:29 AM

Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server

As the stand-alone Hyper-V Server is now available, I would like to demonstrate what the process is for installing Hyper-V Server on a physical computer.  The requirements for Hyper-V Server are that your computer be a x64 computer with hardware
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Monday, October 06, 2008 4:37 PM

The Server Unleashed

Okay, I admit it, I am a sucker for IT advertising - so I am really happy to see some cool advertising coming out for Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V: That's right - it is a robot computer holding a can of "Hyper-V".  Now a number of you
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Monday, August 25, 2008 2:01 PM

TechEd Australia and New Zealand

Next week I am going to be jumping on a plane and going to New Zealand and Australia to talk virtualization. Here is my speaking schedule: New Zealand: Session: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios and Networking Deep Dive Date:  
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:51 PM

Microsoft Server Software and Supported Virtualization Environments

This KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957006 Outlines all of the Microsoft Server Software products that are supported under Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms that are part of the Server Virtualization Validation Program . Cheers,
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:24 PM

Ben is back, some quick links

You may have noticed my absence for the last couple of weeks - I have been on vacation for some post-Hyper-V release unwinding.  But I am back at work now (and digging through a mountain of email).  To kick off blogging again I am going to throw
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:15 AM

Windows Server 2008 VHDs Available for Virtual Server / Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition evaluation VHDs are now available for Virtual Server and Hyper-V.  They are available full and core installation options.  You can get the Hyper-V VHDs from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=060f0c51-339a-4c4e-bb6e-716bb7401fd4&DisplayLang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:43 PM

Hyper-V RC1 Available

In case you missed it - Hyper-V RC1 is now available for download.  Full details can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/hyper-v-rc1-release-available-on-microsoft-download-center.aspx And the release notes are
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 20 Comments
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:01 PM

It doesn't feel like a hypervisor to me...

When I have talked to people about Hyper-V - I have often come across the sentiment that Hyper-V doesn't feel like a hypervisor based virtualization solution. You install Windows, enable a role and then have virtual machines - how is this different from
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 10 Comments
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:21 PM

Some Random Links

Sorry for the dearth of posts - I have been rather busy lately.  As such I thought I would quickly throw out some nice links. My colleague - John Howard - has done a great series of posts on using Terminal Servers Gateway + Terminal Services Web
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Monday, November 12, 2007 9:47 AM

Introducing Microsoft Hyper-V

Today at Tech ED / IT FORUM in Barcelona we made a couple of important announcements: Windows Server virtualization in Windows Server 2008 (formerly codenamed 'Viridian') will have an official product name of 'Hyper-V'. Love it or hate it - it is what
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Friday, October 26, 2007 12:39 PM

Some Windows Server virtualization links to check out

If you haven't already found these - and are playing with (or thinking of playing with) the Windows Server virtualization CTP - here are some good links to check out: Windows Server virtualization CTP release notes: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ED582F0-F844-40BA-B692-230845AF1149&displaylang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:05 AM

Hypervisor API available under the Open Specification Promise

Nice little press release snippet: "Microsoft today announced that it will extend the Open Specification Promise to the hypercall application programmer’s interface (API) within Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian), and will be available
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
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
 
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