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Running SysPrep on a Virtual Machine with SQL Server Installed

This is not strictly a virtual machine tip, but a lot of people run SysPrep on virtual machines to...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/13/2006

Why Does Virtual PC 2007 Install to the "Program Files(x86)" Directory?

Some of you may have noticed that when you install Virtual PC 2007 on a 64-bit host operating system...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/07/2006

Microsoft Launches VHD Evaluation Program

OK, this is really cool. As of today Microsoft is providing virtual hard disks with evaluation...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/06/2006

It is Halloween!

And to celebrate - I am providing a nice Halloween theme for the Virtual Server website: Just...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/31/2006

Changes to the New Virtual Machine Wizard in Virtual PC 2007

There have been a couple of minor changes to the New Virtual Machine Wizard in Virtual PC 2007 to...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/30/2006

Why doesn’t Virtual PC 2007 recognize my wireless network adapter?

In the past I have written about the fact that Virtual PCs support for wireless network adapters is...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/24/2006

Why is Virtual PC saying that my files are marked read-only?

If you're using Virtual PC 2007 on Windows Vista -- you may see an error from Virtual PC that states...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/23/2006

Windows Vista, Virtual PC and Flip-3D

Now that the beta of Virtual PC 2007 is available for general use, and is able to run on Windows...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/20/2006

Gathering disk usage information via WMI

Continuing on our saga through the undocumented Virtual Server WMI interfaces, we now arrive at disk...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/19/2006

Nibbles.bas under Virtual PC

Just like Gorilla.bas, Nibbles.bas is a source code based QBasic game that shipped with MS-DOS 5,...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/18/2006

Virtual Hard Disk format released under Open Specification Promise

A while ago we announced that we were making the VHD format available, royalty free, to people who...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/17/2006

Gorilla.bas under Virtual PC

Gorilla.bas is a BASIC game that shipped with MS-DOS 5, Windows 95 and a couple of other OSes...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/13/2006

Looking at the VM Heartbeat with WMI

Virtual Server also exposes a fair amount of information on the virtual machine heartbeat through...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/12/2006

Virtual PC 2007 Beta now available!

Good news - the Virtual PC 2007 Beta is now available. You can sign up for it here:...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/11/2006

Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Vista RC1 / RC2

I have received a couple of emails asking me about installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/10/2006

Problems with Virtual Server on workgroup based Windows XP

I have known about this issue for a while - but I have kept on forgetting to post about it. If you...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/09/2006

Age of Empires II under Virtual PC

This is a great game, but if you needed me to tell you that then I do not know where you have been....

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/06/2006

Looking at VM Uptime through WMI

Another useful WMI counter that is exposed by Virtual Server is the virtual machine uptime (how long...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/05/2006

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms under Virtual PC

I do not like this game. It's funny - cause I like the original Total Annihilation a lot (as...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/04/2006

Universal TCP/IP boot disk

I recently wanted to Ghost a physical computer to a virtual machine. This is usually best done with...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/03/2006

Today is October 2nd...

Which means it is my birthday (yay for me!), but it also means that the new Windows Datacenter...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/03/2006

Virtual Network Statistics from WMI

Continuing with my journey through the undocumented lands of Virtual Server WMI we come to virtual...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/28/2006

Network sniffing with Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Is not a good idea. Sorry. Every now and then someone asks me whether Virtual PC / Virtual Server...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/27/2006

Hotfix for VS2005R2SP1 on AMD hardware virtualization systems

I have heard from a couple of people who have hit this issue - so I thought I should make a post...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/25/2006

Terminal Velocity under Virtual PC

TERMINAL VELOCITY v1.2 from 3D Realms! #### Shareware by Terminal Reality, Inc. ##"A 3D shooter...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/23/2006

Looking at disk space used by Virtual Server with WMI

So I have been spelunking through the Virtual Server WMI interfaces, and found this handy one for...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/22/2006

Galactic Battle under Virtual PC

GALACTIC BATTLE is a space shoot-em up arcade game for one player. Its setting is an interplanetary...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/20/2006

Using WMI to determine memory usage by Virtual Server

When you create a virtual machine under Virtual Server, you configure the amount of memory that you...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/14/2006

Updates to VPC / VS redistribution rights

I am a bit late on posting about this – but recently we updated the EULA’s on Virtual PC...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/14/2006

Is Virtual Server using hardware virtualization on your computer?

Unfortunately under Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 it is not very easy to tell whether your...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/07/2006

The Chaos Engine under Virtual PC

The Chaos Engine is a classic Bitmap Brothers game. The story for the game is that an inventor has...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/07/2006

Using VHDMount under Windows XP

Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 beta 2 includes a utility to mount virtual hard disks on your...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/05/2006

Double clicking on a VHD to mount it

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 includes 'vhdmount' - a tool to allow you to mount a virtual hard...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/01/2006

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 BETA2 is available for download!

Virtual Server R2 SP1 BETA2 is now available for download, it includes: AMD Virtualization (AMD-V)...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/31/2006

Grim Fandango under Virtual PC

I love this game. Grim Fandango is the first 3D adventure game done by LucasArts and it is just...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/30/2006

Bug with connecting to virtual machines under SCVMM

So while I was playing with System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 I hit an annoying little...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/29/2006

Using virtual machines to run System Center Virtual Machine Manager

A number of people have commented to me on the rather steep requirements to run Beta 1 of System...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/29/2006

Virtual Machines Rock...

In case that wasn't obvious! So why is Ben saying this today? Well I have been setting up a personal...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/17/2006

Running Virtual Server scripts on a computer without Virtual Server

A while ago I talked about how to run VBScripts that control Virtual Server on a remote computer....

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/15/2006

Repeating keys under Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

I recently ran into a case where I was seeing rapidly repeating keys under a Red Hat Enterprise...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/08/2006

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 now available for download

A while ago I posted that the SCVMM Beta was accepting nominations - but now there are bits...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/07/2006

Mortal Kombat II under Virtual PC

Ah the joys of computer game sequels. Like most sequels, Mortal Kombat II was basically like Mortal...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/05/2006

Handy little VBScript to inspect virtual hard disks

I recently threw together this short script to allow me to see what size a virtual hard disk was...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/04/2006

Mortal Kombat under Virtual PC

This is a great game. Mortal Kombat was one of the first arcade games where the best consumer port...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/03/2006

Configuring DCOM for use with an external firewall

When Virtual Server is installed - the installer creates the following exceptions: Port 135 for RPC...

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 07/31/2006

Hexen under Virtual PC

Okay, unlike my lackluster review of Heretic - Hexen (ala Heretic II) is a game that I quite like....

Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 07/28/2006

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