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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:05 AM

Performance Tuning for Hyper-V

It looks like the Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 document has been updated to include information on Performance Tuning for Virtualization Servers.  As the Hyper-V RTM release is getting closer, this is good information to
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Monday, May 19, 2008 4:10 AM

Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

Fedora 9 was released last week, which you can download here: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html . What's new? Highlights from the release notes include: GNOME 2.22 . GNOME now includes a webcam photo and video creation utility called Cheese , improved
Posted by smearp | 11 Comments
Monday, May 05, 2008 6:00 AM

Installing OpenSUSE 11 in Virtual PC

It's that time again! Wife's away, and I'm installing Linux distros for fun. :) Feel free to click on any of the images below to see them at full size. Our friends at Novell recently released the second beta of OpenSuse 11 (although all the screenshots
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:53 AM

Whence Shalt I Screencast?

Alright... back from a MUCH needed vacation, some crazy weather (hail in Seattle?), and I have started to recover from the black lung that my kids were nice enough to share with me. My new Samson microphone showed up as well, so I am ready to start recording
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 10:14 PM

Why can't I manage Hyper-V remotely?

A few weeks ago, I posted instructions on managing Hyper-V remotely from another Windows Server 2008 box that was not running Hyper-V. As I showed in that post, the "Features" screen should have an option for installing the Hyper-V Tools as you can see
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Monday, February 25, 2008 2:51 PM

Virtualization Tech Center

I see over on Matt's blog that we now have a Virtualization Tech Center up on TechNet. Not so pretty, but has lots of great information on all the virtualization technologies: Application Virtualization Microsoft Application Virtualization (formally SoftGrid)
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:43 AM

TechNet How-to Videos

The TechNet Events Team has been hard at work recording "How-To" videos covering a wide variety of Microsoft Technologies, and they are now available in a single location up on TechNet. Click here for the main repository of TechNet How-to Videos . Here,
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:44 PM

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator (and free Vista/Office)

If you have not played with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator, you really need to. It was awesome as the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool, and it is even better now that it adds support for Windows Server 2008, Virtualization,
Posted by smearp | 1 Comments
Friday, December 14, 2007 8:58 PM

Even more Virtual PC/Server images

2007 Office System Demo and HOL Images This virtual machine demonstration environment contains almost 50 Hands-On-Labs, ~25 demos, and more than 10 software packages. A mere 50GB is needed on your hard drive to install this (large) image! Once you have
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:59 PM

Hyper-V released!!!

I would normally put up a great post with examples, pictures, personal stories, wit, and humor... but I am in class today and they are making us shut our laptops. Darn. In any case, AWESOME NEWS!!! The Virtualization team just released a version of Windows
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Friday, December 07, 2007 8:00 PM

More Virtual PC/Server Images

The product groups have been going buck-wild releasing preconfigured Virtual PC/Virtual Server images for you to play around with! I mentioned a bunch of them in this post , and the master TechNet page is here . Keith , however, noticed a few more: Exchange
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:13 AM

Fedora 8 (werewolf) on Virtual PC 2007

My "Running Linux in Virtual PC" posts seem to be some of my more popular reading, so let's have a go at the recently released Fedora 8 (It's no longer Fedora Core). As with most distributions, if you try to install it right off the ISO, you will rapidly
Posted by smearp | 39 Comments
Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:27 AM

Virtual Server HTTP 500 Error

There's probably a KB article about this, but I know the first time I ran into the problem above, it took me forever to find the solution, so I thought I would share it with you. If you install Virtual Server 2005 R2 (or SP1), and then Remote-Desktop
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:04 AM

Fixing the mouse in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn under Virtual PC 2007

The show-stopping " mouse no-workie " issue when loading Ubuntu 7.04 under Virtual PC 2007 now has a workaround! Courtesy of the comments at Arcanecode : Use the RIGHT ALT + V to paste the below lines into Ubuntu. Much easier than typing it out. 1. Reboot
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:05 PM

Shipping is a feature too

I'll keep telling myself that... An update on the Viridian (Windows Server Virtualization) features and ETA can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/05/10/viridian-features-update-beta-planned-for-longhorn-rtm.aspx The News.com
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