John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft : Virtual PC

Windows Virtual PC Links

jhoward — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:45:00 GMT

A quick note to say that Windows Virtual PC has reached RC (release candidate) and is available for download. Ben has lots more information here, and I'm really pleased to see that Prasad has started a WVPC team blog where you can learn more about its features and capabilities.

Cheers,
John.

Blogcast on VSMT (Virtual Server Migration Toolkit) - Part 5

jhoward — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 03:02:00 GMT

As promised, here's the last blogcast installment walking through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. This blogcast walks through deploying the disk image into the blank VM and seeing the final result. It can be viewed by clicking here (10 minutes 6 seconds).

If you missed any of the previous parts:

Part one can be viewed here
Part two can be viewed here
Part three can be viewed here
Part four can be viewed here

Edited by John: 3rd Nov 2005 - Rehosted WMV File

Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 4

jhoward — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:54:00 GMT

I'm "virtually" (no pun intended) at the end in the series of blog entries walking you through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. If you've missed out so far:

Part one can be viewed here (links to 2 blogcasts)
Part two can be viewed here (links to 2 blogcasts)
Part three can be viewed here (links to 2 blogcasts)

The seventh and penultimate VSMT blogcast walks through creating a new virtual machine under Virtual Server as a placeholder for the migrated server. It can be viewed by clicking here (6 minutes 55 seconds).

I've had some great feedback about this series from a truly worldwide audience - the level of interest has been absolutely staggering, and I thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. If you would like more of this type of demonstration/blogcast, please drop me an email using the contact me option on the home page of my blog. I'll try my best to accomodate, but I need to know what you want to see....

Edited by John: 3rd Nov 2005 - Rehosted WMV file

Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 3

jhoward — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:41:00 GMT

If you missed my two previous postings in this series of blogcasts walking you through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, part one can be viewed here, and part two can be viewed here.

This blog provides links to the next two blogcasts parts five and six:

The fifth VSMT blogcast walks through updating the script files to ensure the generated P2V migration files work correctly in the environment validating the XML file describing the hardware on the server being migrated and adds an device to ADS for the target Virtual Server machine. It can be viewed by clicking here (2 minutes 46 seconds).

The sixth VSMT blogcast walks through capturing a disk image of the NT4 server into ADS. It can be viewed by clicking here (7 minutes 33 seconds).

Edited by John: 3rd Nov 2005 - Rehosted WMV files

Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 2

jhoward — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:01:00 GMT

I hope you enjoyed the first two blogcast demonstrations of VSMT I blogged about yesterday. Today, I'm publishing part two which contains the next two blogcasts in the series.

The third VSMT blogcast walks through validating the XML file describing the hardware which the server being migrated is running. It can be viewed by clicking here (1 minute 23 seconds).
The fourth VSMT blogcast walks through generating the P2V (physical to virtual) files used for the remainder of the migration. It can be viewed by clicking here (2 minutes 44 seconds).

Edited by John: 3rd Nov 2005 - Rehosted WMV Files

Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 1

jhoward — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:17:00 GMT

Blogcast, podcast, mini-webcast.... What's in a name - well quite a lot judging by some of the reactions I've had.

Leaving the name issue to one side, I've recorded a series of eight clips which walk through the process of migrating an NT4 server into Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 using the VSMT (Virtual Server Migration Toolkit). Each of these clips is only a few minutes long, with the longest one only 10 minutes. Please feel free to delve in as you want. These clips essentially run through the steps described in a fabulous white paper available on microsoft.com

You will be able to see demo live in Birmingham on January 13th where you can ask me questions in-person.

The first blogcast is an introduction to the environment I'm using to perform the migration and can be viewed by clicking here.

The second blogcast is using the gatherhw tool to generate an XML manifest cataloguing the hardware in my NT4 Server. This can be viewed by clicking here

Hope you enjoy these - I'll blog about the other recordings over the next few days. Also, if you want to see more of these type of recordings relating to Windows Server environments or Virtual Server, drop me a mail or add a comment.

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...added 28th January 2005: Now that they're published, here's the links to the other parts to save you searching.
Part two can be viewed here
Part three can be viewed here
Part four can be viewed here
Part five can be viewed here

Edited by John: 3rd Nov 2005 - Rehosted WMV files