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Monday, November 16, 2009 11:39 PM

Understanding High-End Video Performance Issues with Hyper-V

A while ago I wrote a relatively short blog post high-lighting the fact that there are performance issues with Hyper-V when used with a high-end graphics adapter.  Since then I have been inundated with people asking questions and trying to get their
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:53 AM

Double click to mount a virtual hard disk (Windows 7 Style)

I have been wanting to come up with a workable solution for mounting virtual hard disks by double clicking on them in Windows 7 for a while now. The problem is that: There is no easily scriptable API for VHD mounting You need to be elevated (running “As
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:12 PM

Virtual Machine Migration Test Wizard

I little while ago some member of the Hyper-V test team released a new tool on code.msdn.microsoft.com.  It is the Virtual Machine Migration Test Wizard: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VMMTestWizard In Windows Server 2008 R2 we introduced a new “Processor
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:19 AM

Installing Virtual CD Software in a Virtual Machine

Like many Hyper-V users, I have created ISO images of most of my CDs / DVDs (and in the case of my MSDN software – have downloaded in ISO format to begin with).  I then have these images stored on a file server. It is possible to connect a CD ISO
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:16 AM

Setting up Hyper-V with a UPS

People have asked me how you go about setting up a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) with Hyper-V.  This is much easier than it sounds.  The first thing to understand is that when you shut down the physical computer, the virtual machines will
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 12 Comments
Friday, October 16, 2009 5:26 PM

Hotfix needed to move R2 differencing disk to Windows Server 2008

A virtualization MVP recently bought this to my attention: In Windows Server 2008 R2 there was a minor change to the format of differencing virtual hard disks.  As a result you will need to apply an update to Windows Server 2008 if you want to move
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Friday, October 16, 2009 11:20 AM

Hyper-V Hotfix for "0x00000101 - CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT" on Nehalem systems

We have just released a new hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 that address the issue that users were getting a bluescreen of death on Intel Xeon 5500 series processor-based computers with the following text: 0x00000101 ( parameter1 , 0000000000000000,
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 12 Comments
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:29 AM

Hyper-V Management + Delegated Administration + SCVMM

A while ago I blogged about how to allow non-administrators to control Hyper-V .  You do this by editing the Hyper-V authorization store.  What I failed to mention at that time was that this method does not work if you are using SCVMM to manage
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:24 AM

Windows 7 Eval VHD now available for Hyper-V

We have just released a prebuilt Windows 7 evaluation virtual hard disk for use with Hyper-V that you can download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=606ae07e-b7db-405b-974b-dd61fc41add4 Windows validation is required
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Monday, October 12, 2009 11:55 PM

Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta available for download

The beta release of System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 is now available for download.  You can read more here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/2010beta-overview.aspx And download it from here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9686964
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Monday, October 12, 2009 8:25 AM

How I Manage Servers in my House

Last week I posted a description about the servers (physical and virtual) that I have configured in my house . Today I would like to spend a moment to talk about how I manage this environment. All of my management is done from my Windows 7 computer. I
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 8 Comments
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:18 PM

Hyper-V in my House

I often chat to people about how I use Hyper-V in my house – so I figured that I should write it down for all to read. At the moment I have a single server in my house. It is a single processor quad-core system (Q6600 processor) with 8GB of memory. This
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 23 Comments
Monday, September 28, 2009 11:25 AM

SCOM Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 R2

The System Center Operations Manager management pack for Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available.  In fact it has been available for a while now (since 9/18).  Unfortunately I missed this because this was delivered as an update to the existing
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:11 AM

I am speaking at Tech-Ed Australia and Tech-Ed New Zealand

Immediately after attending VMworld this year I am going to be jumping on a plane and heading back home to speak at Tech-Ed Australia and Tech-Ed New Zealand . At both of these shows I am going to be giving two presentations: Windows 7 XP Compatability
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:15 AM

Geeking out with Windows Deployment Services

(Stick with me on this one – it will take a while but I will bring this back to virtualization at the end of it all.  Oh – and be warned – this is a very long post.) This weekend I had a challenge to solve: A while ago I bought myself one of the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
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