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28 April 2006
How to Enable Hardware Assisted Virtualization in VS2005R2 SP1 Beta
Once you install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 1, you'll notice a check box on the properties page for a virtual machine as shown below - it's as simple as checking the box (on by default). Have fun - and remember, this is Beta code - only install it Read More...
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26 April 2006
Installing or Accessing VSMT help on a Windows XP machine.
I thought this was worth mentioning after I received an email today with a question about VSMT . I answered the email (hopefully with the correct answer!), but would have been able to give a more complete answer if I had had the VSMT help file to hand. Read More...
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06 January 2006
Virtual Machine state not saved on host machine reboot
A common problem you may find under Virtual Server 2005 (including R2) is one which hit me over Christmas after rebuilding on of my Virtual Server hosts. An age old problem which I first encountered probably back in the early days of Exchange 2000 was Read More...
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02 December 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 5 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. The last part of this mini series is where we setup Read More...
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01 December 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 4 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. In part 3, the new cluster group for the virtual machine Read More...
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30 November 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 3 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. Part 3 of 5 gets into the "nitty-gritty" of the configuration. Read More...
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29 November 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 2 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. Part 2 of 5 performs a similar configuration to what Read More...
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29 November 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 1 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. So, another blogcast series starts, but only 5 parts Read More...
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27 November 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering Walkthrough
With Virtual Server 2005 R2 just a few days away from public availability, many of you will want to know more about Host Clustering - a new capability supported with this release - what better way to find out than with a live on-demand demonstration, Read More...
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14 November 2005
How to upgrade to Virtual Server 2005 R2
With the Beta program for Virtual Server 2005 SP1 (as it was named when released to the web) having come to a close last week, and the imminent release of Virtual Server 2005 R2, here's run through of the steps to get you to the production release. Critically, Read More...
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10 November 2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI
And while on the subject of official Virtual Server 2005 R2 information starting to becoming public , we now support iSCSI for VHD storage and clustering shared storage. Typically iSCSI can be a far cheaper alternative to fibre channel attached storage, Read More...
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03 November 2005
Online Labs
Just got news in my inbox that all the US Virtual Labs for both Technet and MSDN are running on Virtual Server 2005 R2 which I thought was kind of cool. If you haven't had a chance to play with the online labs - you should. There's lots of labs which Read More...
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17 October 2005
Netware to Windows Server migration
So, apart from being a great showcase for using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to run online labs, this provides a great opportunity to learn about how to migrate from Novell to Windows in this brand new online lab. To sign up and for more information, Read More...
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26 July 2005
Virtual Machine detection from guests
There are a few "known" hacks to determine if a program is running under a Virtual Machine, unfortunately none of these supported by Microsoft. The most common one is the WMI query to find the motherboard manufacturer - if it is Microsoft, then, as of Read More...
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20 July 2005
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Performance Tips (KB903748)
Just spotted this one released a few days ago. Much of the information in there is pretty well known to most people having been using virtualisation for a while, but it's nice to see it written up officially as a Knowledgebase Article, 903748 . Note that Read More...
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