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Pricing for Virtual Server 2005 R2 announced

As part of the IT Forum announcments - pricing for Virtual Server 2005 R2 was announced today....

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/15/2005

Virtual Server 2005 R2 RTMs

Hi All,Well - Virtual Server 2005 R2 has RTM'd. Some high level details of the changes in Virtual...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/15/2005

Rebel Assault under Virtual PC

Ahh.. Rebel Assault. This classic star wars game was one of my favorites. It had you playing 'rookie...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/11/2005

New Virtual Server 2005 R2 whitepapers

In the lead up to the release of Virtual Server 2005 R2 there are now two new interesting...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/10/2005

The 7th Guest under Virtual PC

Released in 1993 - The 7th Guest was one of the first CD-ROM based games I ever played (on a...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/10/2005

Virtual machines pausing at launch under Virtual PC

If you are seeing a noticeable 'pause' when you start a virtual machine under Virtual PC - you may...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/07/2005

Donald Duck's Playground under Virtual PC

Okay - this is a really old game. I can remember having a copy of this on my original Commodore 64 -...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/05/2005

Detecting Virtual Server events with VBScript

Virtual Server exposes a number of interesting events which you may want to use to initiate...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/04/2005

Overkill under Virtual PC

OVERKILL Arcade game from EPIC MEGAGAMES-------------------------------------------SMOOTH 16-color...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/03/2005

Minix 3.0 under Virtual PC

As recently announced Minix 3.0 has recently been released. The original Minix was an educational...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/02/2005

Windows Virtualization Architecture Presentation

So this has been out for a while - but I only just stumbled across it the other day. It is the...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/01/2005

Kiloblaster under Virtual PC

KILOBLASTER 2.0 -- from EPIC MEGAGAMES!A superb 256-color VGA animated arcade game,30 levels of fun...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/28/2005

Detecting Microsoft virtual machines

From time to time it is handy to be able to detect that you are running inside of a virtual machine...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/28/2005

Xargon under Virtual PC

Having got Jill of the Jungle to run - I think I will spend some time playing all of my old Epic...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/27/2005

Setting up a Ghost network disk for Virtual PC / Virtual Server

It is not uncommon for people to need to setup a Symantec Ghost...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/26/2005

Problems with Intelppm.sys and processr.sys under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Under certain circumstances with a Windows XP / 2003 operating system - intelppm.sys and...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/25/2005

Jill of the Jungle under Virtual PC

Ahh... Jill of the Jungle. This is one of those classic games of DOS gaming. Released by Epic Mega...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/22/2005

Kernel debugging Windows XP inside of a virtual machine

Something that is incredibly easy to do with virtual machines is kernel debugging. You can do this...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/21/2005

Hexxagon under Virtual PC

Hexxagon is a simple little game - and is a derivation of a very old game (other derivations are...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/20/2005

Using COM Ports for logging under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

One interesting feature of Virtual PC / Virtual Server is the ability to map one of the virtual...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/19/2005

Edit --> Copy under Virtual PC

A while ago now I posted about the Edit --> Paste feature of Virtual PC - but I forgot to mention...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/18/2005

One year blogging anniversary

Well - exactly one year ago today I wrote my first post to this blog. 52 weeks and 227 posts later...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/14/2005

Virtual Networking and Wireless network adapters

Some people have noticed that our support for virtual networking when using a physical wireless...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/14/2005

Red Baron under Virtual PC

Red Baron is one of those classic DOS games where the original owner has been kind enough as to...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/13/2005

More details on new server licensing plan...

Well - a bunch of folks have had questions about the nitty gritty details of yesterday's...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/11/2005

Microsoft anounces new virtualization friendly licensing

Woo Hoo!I love days like today :-). Today we have announced new licensing plans for our server...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/10/2005

Playing Galactix under Virtual PC

Here is a game that I had forgotten about - but used to love. It is a relatively simple space ship...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/08/2005

Nice KB Article on troubleshooting network performance / connectivity issues

I am constantly helping people to resolve network connectivity issues and just the other day I found...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/07/2005

Worms Armageddon under Virtual PC

Wrapping up on the Worms series of games we come to Worms Armageddon . This game is very similar to...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/06/2005

Configuring NAT via using the Microsoft Loopback Adapter and Internet Connection Sharing

In previous posts I have mentioned using the Microsoft Loopback Adapter for advanced networking...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/05/2005

Worms World Party under Virtual PC

Worms World Party was released two years after Worms II. Apart from sporting support for DirectX 7.0...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/01/2005

Scripting launch dependencies under Virtual Server

With more complex virtual machine configurations you might find that you have dependencies on the...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/30/2005

Worms II under Virtual PC

Worms II takes the typical computer game sequel approach of taking the original concept and...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/29/2005

Configuring restricted access under Virtual Server

It is possible (though not well documented / understood) to configure Virtual Server such that a...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/28/2005

Securely configuring virtual machines

When it comes to configuring virtual machines in a secure fashion - the most important thing to keep...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/27/2005

Worms under Virtual PC

Now here is one heck of a game. Worms is a fun little game made by the guys at Team 17. It takes the...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/23/2005

Sizing memory for virtual machines appropriately

For some of you reading this - this post will seem like I am stating the obvious - however the...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/22/2005

Solar OS under Virtual PC

It is always nice to get some time to play around with a completlely new operating system. Recently...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/20/2005

Virtual PC vs. Power Management

It seems that people are constantly running into problems running Virtual PC on laptop systems with...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/19/2005

Virtual PC / Virtual Server and Antivirus programs on the host computer

Occasionally we hear reports of customer seeing bad interactions between Virtual PC / Virtual Server...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/14/2005

Virtual Server 2005 now in MSDN!

Woo Hoo! As of today Virtual Server 2005 Standard will be included in all MSDN Enterprise and...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/13/2005

Making networking more robust under SuSE 9.3 under Virtual PC

I do not know when this happened - but in the last couple of releases of SuSE Linux they have taken...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/06/2005

Heading down to Dixie’s

This summer we have had a Program Management Intern, Pat Mauro, working on the virtual machine team...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/02/2005

Whitepaper: Installing the Virtual Server Administration Web site on a Separate Computer

There is a new Virtual Server white paper up...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/31/2005

Creating multiple private virtual networks under Virtual PC

Under Virtual Server we give you the ability to create multiple private virtual networks for use by...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/30/2005

Changing the name of virtual networks under Virtual PC

Under Virtual Server we provide a convenient UI to allow the user to change the name of their...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/29/2005

Quake under Virtual PC

Quake. If you do not know about this game - then I am not going to try and tell you about it....

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/26/2005

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