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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
Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:20 PM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update now Available

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a79bcf9b-59f7-480b-a4b8-fb56f42e3348&displaylang=en KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948515 Details: This update to Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 adds support for the following operating
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:16 PM

Virtual PC 2007 SP1 now available

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=28c97d22-6eb8-4a09-a7f7-f6c7a1f000b5&displaylang=en Release notes: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9f3d3eb5-5e03-4712-999c-e96f91bdf128&displaylang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 24 Comments
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:44 PM

Server and Domain Isolation Demo VM's

Thanks to Dugie for bring this to my attention - there is a great server and domain isolation demo set of virtual machines available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=13a0ab69-2113-482e-a6d1-911aff9e9e2d&displaylang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
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
Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:57 PM

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-049

So this came out while I was on holiday - but I just thought I would pause to highlight this: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-049 - Important Vulnerability in Virtual PC and Virtual Server Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (937986) Executive Summary
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 12 Comments
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
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
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
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 11 Comments
Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:32 AM

Why are Additions required for using virtual machines through Remote Desktop?

I was recently asked why it is required to have Virtual Machine Additions installed when trying to control virtual machines by connecting to the host operating system with Remote Desktop (as discussed here ). To set the terminology correctly – we have
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:26 PM

NUMA and Virtual Server

Before I get started on this topic - let me pause to address the first question that many people will have - what is NUMA? NUMA stands for ' Non-Uniform Memory Access '. NUMA is an architecture for multiprocessor computers. On a non-NUMA system memory
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Monday, April 23, 2007 1:44 PM

Visual Studio 9.0 Beta 1 available as a virtual machine

Here is another interesting virtual machine. The Visual Studio team have made Beta 1 of the next release of Visual Studio (codenamed 'Orcas') available as a virtual machine . It is quite a large download - but it provides a relatively easy way to checkout
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:39 PM

Poll: What do you use desktop virtualization for?

I have oftened been asked "what do the people who read your blog use virtualization for"? So - I thought it was due time to ask you: I look forward to seeing the responses. Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 24 Comments
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:02 AM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

Per the title of this post, the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 RC build can now be downloaded here (note - if you have not signed up for the beta program - you will need to go here instead - and sign up first). There are no significant new features from the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 16 Comments
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:04 AM

Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 Virtual Machines

This is very cool. To help web developers who have IE 6.0 or 7.0 installed on their computers, and need to test the alternate version, the IE team have provided virtual machines with Windows XP and IE 6.0, and Windows XP and IE 7.0. You can find out more
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:29 AM

A New Book on Virtual Server - written by me!

Time for me to unveil a personal secret - I have written a big honkin' book about Virtual Server. For more details - check out this write up that I have made which details everything that you can find inside. Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
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