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Hyper-V Program Manager
Using RRAS to enable wireless with Hyper-V
A while ago I talked about how to use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) to enable wireless support...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/24/2008
Unusual Usage for CPU Resource Controls
In Hyper-V (and Virtual Server) we allow you to configure a CPU resource reservation, limit and...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/21/2008
Interesting Article on Virtual Server backup
Over at Virtualization Review, Chris Wolf has posted an interesting article on combining Virtual...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/20/2008
Hyper-V Release Candidate is now available
After a lot of hard work I am proud to inform you that the release candidate of Hyper-V is now...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/19/2008
Trilby: The Art of Theft under Virtual PC
A little while ago I stumbled upon the game Trilby: The Art of Theft. This is a fun little...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/14/2008
Compacting Virtual Hard Disks with Hyper-V
When you choose to compact a virtual hard disk with Hyper-V a very interesting process is used. The...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/13/2008
Expanding Virtual Hard Disks with Hyper-V
Hyper-V adds the ability to increase the maximum size of a dynamically expanding or fixed-size...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/12/2008
Virtual Machine Snapshotting under Hyper-V
A number of people have been asking me how snapshots actually work "under the covers". So here we...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/11/2008
VLAN Settings and Hyper-V
One of the features of Hyper-V is VLAN support. This is a little bit confusing - so let me explain...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/10/2008
Virtual Server Backup Information
Just stumbled across some very thorough documentation on backing up Virtual Server with Acronis True...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/07/2008
BgInfo and Virtual Machines
Here is a handy tool to use with virtual machines. BgInfo allows you to display information about...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/07/2008
Using Virtual PC to Evaluate EEE PC
For a while now I have been eyeing off the Asus EEE PC. I liked the look of it and wanted to get one...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/05/2008
Fedora 8 under Virtual PC 2007
So this is a bit old - but somehow I missed this great post by my colleague, Sean Earp, on how to...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 03/04/2008
Warheads on Virtual PC 2007
Wow, it has been far too long since I posted about gaming and virtualization... So today I...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/29/2008
Hyper-V, Virtual Machine CPU usage and Task Manager
A number of people have asked me about the fact that the CPU usage reported on the Hyper-V...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/28/2008
Hyper-V and Power Management
When you enable the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2008 support for sleep / hibernate will be...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/28/2008
Hyper-V and slow guest OS installation
I have seen a number of reviews and comments about the fact that while Hyper-V virtual machines...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/26/2008
Booting Hyper-V VMs off of iSCSI?
Recently there has been some confusion over whether it will be possible to boot Hyper-V virtual...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/20/2008
Virtualization Clustering and Processor Compatibility
Generally speaking I try to pretend that the rest of the Internet does not exist, and just happily...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/19/2008
Some Random Links
Sorry for the dearth of posts - I have been rather busy lately. As such I thought I would quickly...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/12/2008
Hyper-V Scripts and User Account Control
Last week I posted a bunch scripts for interacting with Hyper-V and a couple of you have contacted...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/04/2008
Mounting a Virtual Hard Disk with Hyper-V
You can mount a virtual hard disk under the parent partition with Hyper-V and a simple script:...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/02/2008
Renaming a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Moving on we come to a sample script for changing a setting on a virtual machine - in this case I am...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/01/2008
Shutting down a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Now to get a little trickier - shutting down a virtual machine: VBScript: Option Explicit Dim...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/31/2008
Starting a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Next in the line up of scripts - another simple one - starting a virtual machine: VBScript: Option...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/30/2008
Bring on the Scripts!
Okay! Now that initial documentation of the Hyper-V WMI API is available I thought I would respond...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/28/2008
Hyper-V WMI Documentation Available
Now for me to start working on some sample code for you...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/24/2008
Using BitLocker under Virtual PC / Virtual Server
Up until recently, I thought it was impossible to use BitLocker drive encryption under Virtual PC /...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/23/2008
Virtualization Announcements
We had a bunch of announcements today:Bob Muglia sent out an executive email on Harnessing the Power...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/23/2008
Creating your own Hyper-V MMC Console
The Hyper-V Manager is normally displayed under the Server Manager, and as a stand alone entry under...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/19/2008
Allowing non-Administrators to control Hyper-V
By default Hyper-V is configured such that only members of the administrators group can create and...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/17/2008
Managing Snapshots with Hyper-V
Hyper-V introduces the concept of virtual machine snapshots - which is to say point in time images...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/16/2008
Understanding the 'Clipboard' menu under Hyper-V
With Hyper-V the Virtual Machine Connection window has a menu titled 'clipboard'. This menu brings...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/15/2008
Virtual Machine Connection Key Combinations with Hyper-V
With Hyper-V we now have the "Virtual Machine Connection" to use when interacting with a virtual...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/14/2008
Problems with Virtual Server and Automatically Restarting Virtual Machines
Per this KB article: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/941125There is a known issue with Virtual...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/11/2008
Mounting VHDs from Managed Code
When Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 was released it included the VHDMount tool - that came with a DLL to...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/10/2008
Using Hyper-V with a Wireless Network Adapter
Out of the box Hyper-V does not support connecting virtual machines to wireless network adapters....
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/09/2008
Understanding Networking with Hyper-V
With Hyper-V the world of networking is quite different than it was with Virtual Server. First to...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/09/2008
The Explanation for Error 61658 when installing IC's with Hyper-V
If you are having problems installing integration components on Hyper-V and are getting an error...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/07/2008
Running Virtual PC under Hyper-V Beta
They say that a picture speaks a thousands words, so: Yes! This is Windows Server 2008 running...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/04/2008
Things that Virtual PC needs to be run as Administrator for...
For the most part Virtual PC is able to happily run when you are using a non-administrative user...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/03/2008
Installing Fedora Core 8 on Hyper-V
Anyone who has installed Linux on Virtual PC / Virtual Server knows that while yes, Linux is...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/31/2007
Hyper-V Clustering
If you haven't seen this one yet - Robert Larson has done an excellent post on how to configure...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/27/2007
Installing the Hyper-V Beta in a Core configuration
Today I would like to talk about installing Hyper-V on a Windows Server Core configuration. ...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/26/2007
Installing Windows Server 2008 on the Hyper-V Beta
So once you have the Hyper-V Beta installed and up and running you will probably want to start...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/21/2007
Updated Documentation for Hyper-V Beta now available
Release...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/19/2007
Installing the Hyper-V Beta
A couple of people have already posted on how to get going with the Hyper-V beta - but I thought I...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/18/2007
Virtualization Podcast with Eric Traut
Go check it out: https://www.dabcc.com/podcastdetail.aspx?id=43Stolen directly from DABCC:In the...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/18/2007
Hyper-V Beta Demo's
Check them out: Video: Symmetric Multiprocessing with Windows Server virtualization (Hyper-V) Video:...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/14/2007