MS Virtualization News - Commentary

Posted on Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 | 3 Responses

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 for free?

Just about everyone has covered the fact that Microsoft announced they would start giving away Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition. What I find most surprising is that most are somewhat shocked or at least a little astonished that this finally happened. Aside from the fact that […]

Moving Virtual Server 2005 VMs

Posted on Sunday, January 8th, 2006 | No Comments

John Howard has some great tips on moving virtual machines that have saved state from one physical host to another. Though the virtualization layer of Virtual Server abstracts the hardware from the equation most of the time, there are still some host-specific hardware changes that throw a monkey wrench in the process if you […]

VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) Image Format Specification

Posted on Saturday, October 15th, 2005 | No Comments

Microsoft has made available the specifications for their VHD image format used by Virtual PC and Virtual Server 2005. One could use this specification to get details on how to read and modify the data contained in a VPC 2004 virtual hard disk or a Virtual Server 2005 virtual hard disk.
According to the posting […]

Good Resource for VPC Information

Posted on Saturday, September 3rd, 2005 | No Comments

Stumbled upon this site from a former Connectix employee and Microsoft MVP. There’s a lot of good VPC information to be found…
http://www.essjae.com/VPC/virtual_pc_downloads.htm

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Virtual Server / Virtual PC on Windows Vista Beta 1

Posted on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 | No Comments

Ben Armstrong has some good tips on running VPC and VS 2005 on Vista Beta 1.
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/08/01/446236.aspx