http://www.digwin.com/cat/Virtualization/hot digWin: Community news sharing for Microsoft Techies. en http://www.digwin.com/hyperv-installation-tricks-part-1-sysprep-and-hyperv Sysprep and Hyper-V; Unattended Installation of Windows and Hyper-V RC0; Integrated Installation - The Beauty of the Win6 servicing stack. Source:→ Microsoft. This post is from Deepak Gupta's - D' Technology Weblog ... http://www.digwin.com/hyperv-management-tools-available-for-vista-sp1 You need to enable this folder under the start menu properties to have it displayed. Also note that you will need to enable WMI between your computer (per this article: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389290(VS.85).aspx). http://www.digwin.com/windows-2008-server-x86-install-on-virtual-server-r2-on-64bit-vista Imagine my surprise when I realized you can’t run 64bit guest operating systems on Virtual Server R2. For that, you have to be running Windows 2008 Server running Hyper-V (or VmWare). A step-by-step guide is here on the Microsoft site ... http://www.digwin.com/reap-the-rewards-of-server-virtualization Windows Virtual Server is for those who have a Microsoft-only environment, either Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Microsoft provides two versions of its Windows Virtual Server 2005: Standard Edition and Enterprise ... http://www.digwin.com/windows-2008-has-gone-rtm-0 Last week Microsoft announced that Windows 2008 had hit rtm status. This is good news for those who are eagerly looking forward to some of the new drastic changes Window 2K8 will be brining, especially Microsoft’s Hyper-V technology. ... http://www.digwin.com/hyperv-in-server-2008-rtm-doesnt-like-nonus-locales-5 Hyper-V is Microsoft’s whizzy new virtual server manager, which uses new virtualization features in recent Intel and AMD processors so support more efficient virtual machines. Intel’s extensions are called Intel Virtualization ... http://www.digwin.com/hyperv-in-server-2008-rtm-doesnt-like-nonus-locales-3 Hyper-V is Microsoft’s whizzy new virtual server manager, which uses new virtualization features in recent Intel and AMD processors so support more efficient virtual machines. Intel’s extensions are called Intel Virtualization ... http://www.digwin.com/windows-server-2008-in-the-enterprise-an-overview By now you have either heard or read something somewhere that Microsoft is about to release a new Serve operating System. The new server operating system is Windows Server 2008, slated for world wide release on February 27 2007. ... http://www.digwin.com/citrix-acquires-xensource-still-scratching-my-head XenSource has also stated several times that it is a "stepping stone" to Microsoft's Hyper-V when it gets released. OK. So the strategy is go and spend $500 million on a company that's losing money, switch all of your current successful ... http://www.digwin.com/how-to-back-up-your-personal-computer You’re supposed to be able to open a VHD file with Microsoft’s Virtual PC (a free download), but I couldn’t get that to work (weird error messages). Some people have reported success in taking the VHDmount command from Virtual Server ... http://www.digwin.com/installation-of-virtual-server-2005-r2 Then I just drag-n-drop my rdp-file ontop of the batfile. This will result in a console connection to the server set in the rdp-file. I hope this helps! Gustaf Westerlund Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consultant WM-Data/Logica CMG ... http://www.digwin.com/migrating-a-windows-server-2003-virtual-machine-to-hyperv There are a couple of issues that I’ve already run across that you need to be aware of before attempting to move a Windows Server 2003 VM from one virtual server to another. First, you should remove the static IP number on the network ... http://www.digwin.com/hyperv-in-server-2008-rtm-doesnt-like-nonus-locales-1 Hyper-V is Microsoft’s whizzy new virtual server manager, which uses new virtualization features in recent Intel and AMD processors so support more... Read more at VMblog.com. http://www.digwin.com/hyperv-in-server-2008-rtm-doesnt-like-nonus-locales-0 When it does get finished, Microsoft recommends using Server Core rather than the full Server 2008 as the host OS. However, Hyper-V is interesting to developers as well as admins, so I wanted to take a look. Unfortunately, after I added ... http://www.digwin.com/using-windows-server-2008-as-a-super-workstation-os Windows Server 2008 is the best OS to be released till date from Microsoft's stable. And the moment I got hold of the RTM build I could not resist installing it on my workstation. Due to the nature of my work I always prefer running a ... http://www.digwin.com/insomniacausing-hyperv Daniel Oxley:I am in Seattle at the moment at an internal Microsoft conference. Yesterday I attended a presentation by one of the product managers for Hyper-V where he really stressed a point that people ask me all the time, ... http://www.digwin.com/how-to-install-hypervm-on-linux “Support for Windows Virtualization.” “HyperVM allows efficient windows virtualization with advanced features like backup/restore built in.” “Support for multiple virtualization technologies.” “Live Migrate” ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-tightens-citrix-ties-adds-tools As the release of Windows Server 2008 and the Hyper-V hypervisor draw nearer, Microsoft is turning up the heat on virtualization rival VMware. http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-unveils-virtualization-strategy-0 Microsoft also reversed its earlier position and will now allow the Home Basic and Home Premium versions of Vista to run under virtualization. The company confirmed its plans to deliver its Hyper-V hypervisor within six months of the ... http://www.digwin.com/hyperv-on-server-core-compared-to-full-installation Hyper-V is considered to be the ideal Hyper-V root partition because it needs less patching, has a smaller attack surface and offers better performance. That last claim has finally been put to the test! http://www.digwin.com/virtual-machine-manager-2007 Once Windows Server virtualization is available, the tool will be expanded to work with VMs created with this new technology. Virtual Machine Manager Hardware Requirements -- Single Computer. The minimum and recommended hardware ... http://www.digwin.com/windows-7-why-i-think-it-will-be-a-dream-os a hypervisor OS that can run every windows app from dos 1.0 to vista open a dos app: in the background a dos environment is being virtualized, all you see is your dos app running. same goes for all applications. its things you can never ... http://www.digwin.com/how-to-connect-to-office-network-domain-from-virtual-pc I love virtualization. In fact I use it in the office for a long time. But I never had a chance to show my wife and kid how cool my job is. So what we need:. Virtual PC 2007. Windows XP or Windows 2003 server installed as guest PC. ... http://www.digwin.com/vmware-server-virtual-server-consolidation-free-virtualization- NAS DeviceSecond, the Personal Backup Appliance provides a simple NAS service for drag-and-drop incremental backup through Windows (SMB) shares. When coupled with helper backup software such as SyncToy (free download for Windows) or ... http://www.digwin.com/parallels-server-brings-virtualization-to-leopard-server The option to run two or more copies of Leopard Server (along with other operating systems, such as Windows Server and Linux) on, say, one of the spiffy new eight-core Xserves (see “New Xserve Goes Eight-Core Too,” 2008-01-08) could ... http://www.digwin.com/windows-server-2008-enterprise-rc1-with-hyperv-beta-for-download Anyone who wants to experiment with Microsoft's Hypervisor Virtualization technology (beta) on steroids, should download Windows Server 2008 Enterprise RC1 with Hyper-V beta. Download from here: Evaluate the Windows Server 2008 Release ... http://www.digwin.com/changing-virtual-hard-drive-from-ide-to-scsi ... Browse to the C:\Program Files\Virtual Machine Additions folder and click OK; The Microsoft Virtual Machine PCI SCSI Controller driver should now be installed; Shutdown your virtual machine; In the Virtual Server Virtual Machine ... http://www.digwin.com/microsofts-windows-home-server-corrupts-files-1 Windows Server 2008 Revealed: Hyper-V virtualization. Here's a look at how Microsoft's Hyper-V works, its major benefits and when you can expect to deploy this in production environments. ... http://www.digwin.com/windows-8-or-9-or-10 The proliferation of cores is bad for the current Windows architecture - at 16 CPUs Windows is actually SLOWER than a single-core machine. Luckily, many-core architectures create opportunities for virtualization, and this I think is the ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-launches-virtualization-hypervisor-beta-2 Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) on Thursday fired a shot across the bow of competitors in the virtualization market by releasing a public beta for Hyper-V, its widely awaited virtualization hypervisor that will be part of Windows Server 2008 ...