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Linux Integration Services Version v3.2 for Hyper-V now available
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/12/02/linux-integration-services-version-v3-2-for-hyper-v-now-available.aspx'; Yesterday we released a new version of the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V. You can download them directly from here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28188 Some key changes / new features to call out are: Integrated mouse support Yay! This means that... »
Diagnosing a cause of PXE boot failure
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/11/02/diagnosing-a-cause-of-pxe-boot-failure.aspx'; The other day I was trying to boot a virtual machine over the network using my Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Server. This normally works fine – but for some reason I was getting nothing but errors. Sometimes I would get a DHCP failure, other times I received varied PXE... »
Recent MVP posts about different operating systems under Hyper-V
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/08/24/recent-mvp-posts-about-different-operating-systems-under-hyper-v.aspx'; We have a great group of Hyper-V MVPs who contribute greatly to our users. Recently there have been some interesting posts about running different operating systems under Hyper-V. Last Thursday, Alessandro Cardoso posted a detailed guide to installing RedHat 6.1 and setting up the latest integration services. You... »
Linux Integration Services 3.1 for Hyper-V
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/08/04/linux-integration-services-3-1-for-hyper-v.aspx'; Last week we released an update for the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V. You can download the 3.1 release here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26837 Key details are that this release supports the following Linux distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and 6.1 x86 and x64 (Up to... »
Installing Ubuntu Server 10.10 on Hyper-V
Now that the Hyper-V integration services are included in the official Linux builds – I wanted to try out a Linux distribution that is not officially supported by Microsoft and see what was involved in getting it all working. With the recent release of Ubuntu 10.10 I thought I would try out their server... »
Linux Integration Services v2.1 Now Available
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/07/29/linux-integration-services-v2-1-now-available.aspx'; Over on the virtualization team blog – Mike Sterling has just announced the availability of the Linux Integration Services v2.1. And there is a lot to announce here. Along with the previous support for our high performance virtual storage and network adapters – this release brings in the following new features: ... »
Installing Windows 98 on Windows Virtual PC
Windows Virtual PC only officially supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 as guest operating systems. Thankfully it has great compatibility and can run many operating systems that are not officially supported. I recently needed to setup a Windows 98 virtual machine for my wife – who has some genealogy software that will not... »
SmoothWall Express 3.0 under Hyper-V
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/05/10/smoothwall-express-3-0-under-hyper-v.aspx'; The other day I setup a virtual machine running SmoothWall Express 3.0 under Hyper-V. If you are not familiar with this OS – let me be lazy and quote Wikipedia: SmoothWall is a Linux distribution designed to be used as an open source firewall. Designed for ease of... »
Using Virtual Server with Internet Explorer 8
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/04/13/using-virtual-server-with-internet-explorer-8.aspx'; Whether you are running Virtual Server on Windows 7, or just trying to manage Virtual Server from a Windows 7 computer – you will need to use the Virtual Server Administrative Web Site under Internet Explorer 8. This is possible – but there are a number of things that you need to... »
Beta Linux Integration Services Available – SMP support is coming!
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/31/beta-linux-integration-services-available-smp-support-is-coming.aspx'; We have just released the beta of the next version of the Linux integration services. This release brings some much wanted and requested new functionality to our Linux support on Hyper-V. Specifically it brings: Support for running Linux with up to 4 vCPUs per virtual machine. ... »
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