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Hyper-V Check Tool for AMD Processors

Ben just pointed to a page on AMD's website containing valuable processor related tools for free download. The one of importance here is obviously an " AMD Virtualization™ Technology and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ System Compatibility Check Read More...
Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 6:29 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Hyper-V Release Candidate available

YES, RC0 of the Microsoft virtualization solution Hyper-V is available for download. John Howard has an excellent and extensive blog post about the details. Please pay close attention to his post and read 'til the end before you install the bits! It is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:01 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

Honestly I was shocked when I read John's recent post about " Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC? " Hestarts off with some "No, not supported" cases and I almost immediately started felling nauseous. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:01 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Virtualization Starter

TechRepublic published an article about the" 10 things you should know about virtualization." If you are new to the whole virtualization thing, it will certainly get you started. The author, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, is right, "Virtualization is a huge Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:51 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Hyper-V WMI API Sample Code

Ben kept word . Yesterday he started his "Week of Hyper-V Scripts". Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:09 AM by Volker Will | 2 Comments

Series of Virtualization Podcasts on InfoWorld

A series for five short and comprehensive podcasts will be published on InfoWorld's blog. This week the first has been posted. Below some info about the complete series. The podcasts can be found here . Podcast Descriptions Episode One : Top Virtualization Read More...
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 3:54 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Hyper-V WMI Interfaces published

Well, I guess this is something all developers and IT Pro's have been anxiously waiting for. The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provider for virtualization and the hypervisor API enable developers, and IT professionals, to quickly build custom Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:37 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Hafnium helps increasing performance of virtual environments

On Nov 11th Intel already announced a "Fundamental Advance in Transistor Design," extending  Moore's Law and therefore computing performance. You find the full press announcement here . Why's it important in the context of virtualization? Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:40 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

One of the largest Virtualization conferences

One of the largest Virtualization conferences of the industry seems to happen this week in Barcelona, Spain. Microsoft Teched IT Forum . Obviously not a pure virtualization conference but the Microsoft technical event for IT professionals. But if you Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 3:26 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Hypercall API published under OSP

Today Microsoft announced that it will extend the Open Specification Promise (OSP) to the hypercall API within Windows Server virtualization, and the final version will be available at the RTM milestone of Windows Server virtualization. Today Microsoft Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:25 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Series of Webcasts and chats on Windows Server Virtualization

TechNet Webcast: Virtualization and Windows Server 2008 Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time The new Windows Server Virtualization infrastructure will be a core feature in Windows Server 2008. This session will provide you an Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:06 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Microsoft Virtualization has a new home

Microsoft Virtualization information has a new home. Check out the new URL: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualization/default.mspx . The content available here cover all virtualization technologies in one place as you can see: Looking Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:16 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

New set of Microsoft Virtualization videos available

Virtualization in Windows Server Mike Neil, General Manager http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=515 Virtualization technology roadmap and an outline of Microsoft's vision for how these technologies will combine with future Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:23 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

How Green Is Viridian?

Today I met with DaveO, an old colleague of mine. He left the company some time ago to pursue his own thing. Now he's kind of back. At least for a project. He recently finished working on an article for Technet about Green Computing. The article should Read More...
Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 7:47 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Windows Virtualization Team Blog adds new member

Starting yesterday Jeff Woolsey, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Microsoft Virtualization team started blogging. You can read his first blog post here . If you have not yet subscribed to the team blog. Here's one more good reason. Moving forward Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:46 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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