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SCVMM 2008 R2 Release Date

hey guys, If you are wondering when VMM 2008 R2 will release, this latest blog post by Rakesh will give you the inside track. http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/archive/2009/07/13/scvmm-2008-r2-release-date-information.aspx cheers. Read More...
Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 3:12 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

How to get data (like the integration services version) from Msvm_KvpExchangeDataItem in Hyper-V

Today, if you are using VMM, you can quickly and easily find out if your VM has the integration components installed by using this simple PowerShell script. << PS D:\Windows\system32> get-vm | select name, hostname, hasvmadditions, vmaddition Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:12 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

Utilizing Virtualization and boot-from-vhd for making a dual-boot laptop

I received my brand new Dell Latitude E4300 laptop today and I wanted to make sure i could boot both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on it. Here is how virtualization came in handy. Instead of partitioning my laptop using two partitions (one for Read More...
Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 9:20 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

Rapid Provisioning in VMM 2008 R2 using the UseLocalVirtualHardDisks and SkipInstallVirtualizationGuestServices flags

At MMS 2009, our team announced a new feature of VMM 2008 R2 called Rapid Provisioning. This feature is not available in VMM 2008 R2 beta, but it will be available in the upcoming release candidate and in the RTM version. This feature was implemented Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 5:46 AM by mlmich | 2 Comments
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Trying to add Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host to VMM 2008?

we have several customers that tried to add a Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host in VMM 2008. Our team has not validated that R2 will work with VMM 2008 and it is officially not supported. However, for the few of you that tried to add a Windows Server 2008 Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 1:59 PM by mlmich | 3 Comments

Running the Virtual Machine Manager server component inside a Virtual Machine

Running VMM inside a Virtual Machine is a fully supported way of running VMM. Our team tests this scenario and we have some customers deploying VMM in such an enviroment. If you would like to deploy VMM in such an environment, it is recommended to place Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:16 PM by mlmich | 2 Comments
 
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