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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
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
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 | 23 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
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:49 PM

Virtualization Announcements

We had a bunch of announcements today: Bob Muglia sent out an executive email on Harnessing the Power of Virtualization for Dynamic IT , and we also our Vision and Strategy to Accelerate Virtualization Adoption . Some key items here: Microsoft has acquired
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Monday, December 17, 2007 11:35 PM

Virtualization Podcast with Eric Traut

Go check it out: http://www.dabcc.com/podcastdetail.aspx?id=43 Stolen directly from DABCC: In the following Microsoft Virtualization Podcast, Douglas Brown interviews Eric Traut, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer. Eric is responsible for the Windows Kernel
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 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
Monday, November 26, 2007 10:56 AM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Scripting Guide

Now this is the sort of white paper that I like to read: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Scripting Guide 143 pages of useful script samples for SCVMM - which highlights common tasks like: Adding and configuring new Virtual Server hosts. Deploying
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:40 AM

More VHDs available

Just poking around the Microsoft VHD site and there have been some new VHDs added. New on the VHD site recently are: Biztalk Server 2006 , Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 , Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 and Windows Vista Enterprise 30-day Eval Edition .
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
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:35 PM

Updated Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available

There are new Virtual Machine Additions for Linux available for download. There are two key changes to be aware of: Addition of support for SuSE Enterprise Linux 10. The official supported list is now: Enterprise distributions Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 21 Comments
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