February 2008 - Posts

29 February 2008
VMBus fails to load (device cannot find enough free resources Code 12) on a Windows Server 2008 x86 virtual machine under Hyper-V

There is one particular scenario where you could be faced with this when booting a VM using Hyper-V. The most obvious way you can immediately notice it is that when using Virtual Machine Connection to remotely control a virtual machine, you do not have Read More...

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28 February 2008
Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

This question frequently comes up, but most often is not the question people mean to ask. As written, the answer to the question is yes – there is no change to the VHD format specification used between any of these virtualization solutions. The Read More...

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17 February 2008
HTTP Error 500 from Virtual Server Admin Site - mstsc /admin, not mstsc /console

Sometimes you find things out the hard way. This one started bugging me a few weeks ago, so I started to dig around to see what I could find. Have you ever been faced with this (HTTP Error 500) when remotely logging on to the console session of a machine Read More...

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09 February 2008
Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services Web Access using Hyper-V (Part 4)

Part four of my weekend project is to add the Hyper-V management applications to Terminal Server web access. Let’s see just how easy that is. Of course, I could have left it at the point of “TS’ing” to the Hyper-V machine directly Read More...

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09 February 2008
Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services Web Access using Hyper-V (Part 3)

Part three of my weekend project involves a little more reconfiguration of my ISA 2006 Server to allow TS Web access the Terminal Services virtual machine running under Hyper-V beta. There are two rules I need to create on the ISA server to achieve this, Read More...

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09 February 2008
Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services Web Access using Hyper-V (Part 2)

Part two of my weekend project involves a little reconfiguration of my ISA 2006 Server to allow RPC access to the Terminal Services gateway running as a virtual machine under Hyper-V beta. There’s really three rules involved in the ISA server – Read More...

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09 February 2008
Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services Web Access using Hyper-V (Part 1)

So over the weekend, I found myself with a few spare hours, and got back to “playing with technology” – something I haven’t had a lot of time to focus on recently. What I ended up with was something which I classify mostly as “because Read More...

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