Windows Server 2008 R2

Adventures in Backup – continued

Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Adventures in Backup – continued

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/adventures-in-backup-continued.aspx'; Two weeks ago I discussed some bad experiences I had with Hyper-V + backup.  Since then I have spent a bunch of time setting up Hyper-V + backup on a couple of systems – and none were as problematic as my first attempt.  I have also setup my home Hyper-V server to... »

The Big [re]Build

Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
The Big [re]Build

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/the-big-re-build.aspx'; A while ago I talked about how I use Hyper-V in my house, and more recently I talked about trying to backup my Hyper-V server.  This discussion of backup was actually in preparation for a significant rebuild of my home Hyper-V server, that I undertook a week and a half ago.  There... »

Understanding where your virtual machine files are [Hyper-V]

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Understanding where your virtual machine files are [Hyper-V]

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/understanding-where-your-virtual-machine-files-are-hyper-v.aspx'; To be honest, I am surprised that I have not blogged about this before, but today I would like to talk about how virtual machine files are placed on the hard disk.  Virtual Machine files The first thing to know is what files are used to create a virtual machine: .XML files These files contain... »

Hyper-V Whitepapers / Guides (Live Migration configuration + Storage Performance)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Hyper-V Whitepapers / Guides (Live Migration configuration + Storage Performance)

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/01/hyper-v-whitepapers-guides-live-migration-configuration-storage-performance.aspx'; We have released a bunch of updated documentation in the last week.  The first thing to look at is the Live Migration Network Configuration Guide.  The really neat part of this is that it talks through all the supported / unsupported network configuration options.  It also talks how to use the network... »

Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities + Hyper-V Migration Guide Update

Friday, February 26, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities + Hyper-V Migration Guide Update

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/25/windows-server-2008-r2-migration-utilities-hyper-v-migration-guide-update.aspx'; We have just released an updated version of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities that now adds support for Hyper-V, plus we have updated the Hyper-V Migration Guide.  You can grab the bits from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c1ec14a-e9d7-46ea-9c6e-73d6bc4219b4 And read the guide here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee849855(WS.10).aspx But what is this exactly? Simply put – this is a set of command... »

Adventures with Hyper-V and Backup

Monday, February 22, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Adventures with Hyper-V and Backup

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/22/adventures-with-hyper-v-and-backup.aspx'; A while ago I talked about how I use Hyper-V in my house.  One of the problems that I identified with my current setup was that I had most of my virtual machines (except for the Windows Home Server) running on the same disk as the system disk for the management operating... »

Hyper-V ActiveX RDP Control

Thursday, February 4, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Hyper-V ActiveX RDP Control

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/03/hyper-v-activex-rdp-control.aspx'; The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters project have just put up the sample code for a Hyper-V ActiveX RDP control, available here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ddc/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3833 What this allows you to do is to create a Remote Desktop connection directly to the virtual machine (not to the guest operating system) in exactly the same manner as... »

Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter

Tuesday, February 2, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/01/hyper-v-vm-state-to-memory-dump-converter.aspx'; Today Anton – from the Hyper-V development team – released the Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter tool. What this tool does is allow you to take the saved state files from a Hyper-V virtual machine and convert it to the memory dump format that is used by the Windows debugging tools. ... »

RemoteApp + Hyper-V + Windows XP / Vista

Thursday, December 17, 2009
By Virtual PC Guy
RemoteApp + Hyper-V + Windows XP / Vista

The Remote Desktop team just did an interesting post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2009/12/15/remoteapp-for-hyper-v.aspx About the RemoteApp for Hyper-V functionality that is available with Windows Server 2008 R2.  The concept here is that you would have a setup similar to Windows Virtual PC, where you run a legacy application in a Windows XP... »

The different ways to compact a disk

Monday, December 14, 2009
By Virtual PC Guy
The different ways to compact a disk

Today if you want to compact a virtual hard disk – you can use Virtual PC / Virtual Server / Hyper-V or Windows 7.  But not all methods are the same.  Under the covers there are two different approaches that are taken to compacting virtual hard disks: Virtual PC / Virtual Server: ... »

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