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Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:14 PM

Multiple Seamless Applications with Windows Virtual PC

We have spent a lot of time telling people how Windows Virtual PC and Virtual XP mode will allow them to run incompatible legacy applications on Windows 7.  Unfortunately a number of people have come away with the impression that you can only do
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Friday, June 19, 2009 4:50 PM

Disabling Integrated Mode in Windows Virtual PC

Earlier this week I talked about integrated mode in Windows Virtual PC .  And there I mentioned that there are times that you may want to disable integrated mode.  You can do this on a running virtual machine by using the tools menu: You can
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Monday, June 15, 2009 10:18 AM

Creating virtual machines with Windows Virtual PC

If you have read about Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode, you may mistakenly think that Windows Virtual PC can only be used for running applications in Windows XP mode.  While this is one of the major features, Windows Virtual PC allows you
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 21 Comments
Thursday, June 11, 2009 5:22 PM

Using Windows Virtual PC to run 16-bit applications on 64-bit Windows

I have had some people ask me whether you can use Windows Virtual PC – with its integrated Windows XP Mode – to run older 16-bit Windows programs on a 64-bit platform.  The answer is “Yes!”.  Here you can see a screen shot of SkiFree running
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:56 PM

Windows 7 RC + Windows Virtual PC Beta now available

In case you did not see the announcements yesterday – you can now get your hands on the Windows 7 RC (release candidate) build for testing.  You can also download the beta of Windows Virtual PC , and the beta for Windows XP Mode . Also, there is
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 57 Comments
Monday, April 27, 2009 9:34 AM

Windows Virtual PC is Coming…

Over on the Windows Blog, Scott Woodgate has given us a brief glance of Windows Virtual PC, which will be part of Windows 7.  One of the most exciting features is the new “Windows XP mode” which is designed to help people with Windows XP applications
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 33 Comments
Monday, April 06, 2009 4:40 PM

MED-V now available

I have been somewhat remiss in not talking more about MED-V (Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization) and hope to address this by finding the time to post about it in the coming weeks. If you are not aware – MED-V is an enterprise management solution
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:14 PM

A Fist Full of Virtual Hard Disks

There have been a bunch of new evaluation virtual hard disks coming out in the last week or two: An Office Communications Server 2007 R2 evaluation set of virtual machines can be downloaded from here: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 VHD Hyper-V based
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Monday, March 09, 2009 5:18 PM

New VHD Trials Available

Dugie just pointed this out .  There are two new trial VHDs available: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 These trials are built for Virtual Server, but can be used with Virtual PC.  Dugie is also
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Monday, February 09, 2009 3:38 PM

Mike releases WIM2VHD

Mike Kolitz has just released "WIM2VHD".  This is a tool that allows you to take the WIM file off of a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 install DVD and turn it directly into a virtual hard disk that can be used by Hyper-V, Virtual Server
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:27 PM

Mounting VHDs with Windows 7

In Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD support is now part of the platform.  This means that you do not need to enable Hyper-V to mount and manipulate virtual hard disks.  You can mount virtual hard disks directly on your Windows 7 / Windows
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:36 PM

Virtual Server to Hyper-V Migration Guide

For users who want to move virtual machines from Virtual Server to Hyper-V there are two resources you should be aware of. The first is the Virtual Server to Hyper-V Migration Guide that is now available here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd296684.aspx
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:07 PM

Shutting down a Hyper-V / Virtual Server Cluster Node

If you are running Hyper-V or Virtual Server in a clustered configuration - you need to be careful about just shutting down a cluster node.  If you need to shutdown one of the cluster nodes you need to first open the cluster manager and select to
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:04 PM

Windows 7 on Virtual PC on Windows 7

You might be interested to know that this is a combination that works just fine. Here is a screenshot of Windows 7 on Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7: Though there are a couple of things you should know: Use Virtual PC 2007 SP1. Earlier versions of Virtual
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 31 Comments
Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:22 PM

How do I Fix a Corrupted Virtual Hard Disk?

People occasionally contact me and ask me how to fix a virtual hard disk that they have which is reporting corruption. The short answer is: "Run data recovery tools inside the virtual machine." For the long answer we need to look at how the virtual hard
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
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