October 2007 - Posts
Microsoft announced today with it will be publishing the Hypercall APIs through the Open Specification Promise when Windows Server Virtualization ships. In addition they posted a draft of these interfaces in the form of a Hypervisor top-level functional
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In Virtual Server 2005 R2, a virtual network operated like a hub with a switched uplink port. Traffic on all guests plugged into the network was visible on every port of the virtual network, but that traffic was not visible to anything on the other side
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My co-author Janique Carbone has posted two new bonus scripts on her site http://vscommunity.com . Both scripts have to do with finding out information about differencing disks. GETVHDParentInfo - Allows you to specify a VHD file on the command line and
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Previously published in the July issue of TechNet Magazine, these are two PDFs of Windows 2008: Operating System components and Active Directory components. The posters explain how they work and detail capabilities. They are great resources to have up
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Adapted from Chapter 7 of the Virtual Server 2005 R2 Resource Kit book from Microsoft Press So you are trying to figure out how a virtual machine network adapter is mapped to a physical network adapter in the host through a virtual network. Maybe you
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If you are like me and primarily use a notebook, then you live by wireless. If you are also trying to test Windows 2008 RC0 then you might be scratching you head on how you get wireless to work. Windows 2008 has a new feature called the Wireless LAN Service.
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Microsoft is holding a series of webcasts to provide information on the virtualization solutions it provides. If you want to learn about Microsoft Virtualization technology or how to manage the virtualization technology, check these out. There are a couple
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