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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. ... »
Installing Windows 7 on Virtual PC 2007
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/26/installing-windows-7-on-virtual-pc-2007.aspx'; We have not updated Virtual PC 2007 to add support for running Windows 7 as a guest operating system at this point in time. However, this is possible to do – with two important caveats: You really need to have hardware virtualization support to get decent performance ... »
Windows XP Tablet Edition under Windows Virtual PC
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/09/windows-xp-tablet-edition-under-windows-virtual-pc.aspx'; Over the weekend I spent some time going through my dusty archives of a virtual machines, bringing them all across to Windows Virtual PC and making sure they were all up to date. One of the virtual machines that I worked on was a Windows XP Tablet Edition virtual machine (which I... »
Using Windows Server 2008 Core on Windows Virtual PC
tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/04/using-windows-server-2008-core-on-windows-virtual-pc.aspx'; First, a caveat. This is not supported. Most of what I am about to talk about is not supported. Feel free to use this information, but do not call Microsoft if it does not work for you. With that out of the way – this morning I was asked how to get a... »
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