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To the left is an image of the device manager from a not upgraded Virtual machine, it shows an unknown device, to the right is an upgraded machine, and here it shows the Virtual Dynamic Memory Driver under system Devices. this driver is responsible for the possibility to balloon memory. The whitepaper...
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And it has the coolest feature around: ( Yes I know, VMWare had this already for years, so now stop about it.) SP1 has Dynamic Memory support for Virtual machines. on the settings Tab you are able to configure it like this: One can specify a startup amount to reserve, and let the virtual Balloon if needed...
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Steve Ballmer announced at the Gartner conference last week that there will be modifications in Vista to add Hyper-V to the system. Hyper-V willa lso integrate further into Server 2008. Microsoft will not wait for Windows 7 to integrate the Hypervisor technology in the client operating system. I am very...
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Today I am running a class on HMC 4.5 This class is running on Hyper-V. we ran into the following and I cannot say I am pleased with this: when you create the first machine on a Hyper-V box through the Hyper-V manager, the MAC address will be always the same, so if you create an environment that is running...
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As you may have found out by reading this Blog, you’ll know that I am running Windows Server 2008 on my laptop with Hyper-V enabled. up tillnow I always switched Hard disks to boot into Windows XP with virtual server. I found the loss of performance in virtual server under Hyper-v very bad. Machines...
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Microsoft released two patches for Hyper-V, the first one makes it possible to use 24 cores on the Hyper-V machine instead of 16, and it gives the possibility to run 192 machines instead of 128. The second one solves some problems when managing Hyper-V through VMM.
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Isn’t this the best certification ever? Behave Non-Professional in a certified manner… I really love it, more because I am only one exam from this certification. I only need the 70-403 exam , which I will try my luck on on the 10th of October… I ran into this certification by looking at the certification...
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A lot of departments at Microsoft are releasing official statements on Their product and Virtualization Sharepoint and Hyper-V Exchange and Virtualization ISA Server and there will be more to come. When talking about Virtualization, they not only talk about Hyper-V, but about all Virtualization partners...
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I found this podcast of the Hyper-V song here .
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The result of my Beta exam (70-652 TS: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring) has just come in. I reviewed my status on the prometric web site and there it was. PASSED… So now I am a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring… that is one mouth full ( of...
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Just before I was packing my bag for a (well earned (if I may say so myself)) vacation, I read this post about a migration tool for VMC files to Hyper-V . I hope I will have time after the vacation to play around with it. It sounds promising. If you have time, please leave your impressions here..
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while reading up on some mail and feeds, I ran into this little gem here: a Sidebar gadget to keep track of your Hyper-V machines (on several parents…) http://mindre.net/post/Hyper-V-Monitor-Gadget-for-Windows-Sidebar.aspx
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RTM Hyper-V within 180 days of RTM-ing Windows Server 2008, and they made it, Hyper-V went RTM today.. From July 8th it will be available through Microsoft Update. Get it now here…
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I blogged about the fact I was running Server 2008 on my laptop with Hyper-V, until the latest release I was not able to run both Hyper-V and Virtual PC/Server on the same box, the box rebooted when I started a Vm in VPC/VS2005. I tried again (against my better judgement I thought), and to my surprise...
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I thought: live life on the edge and go for it, so I downloaded the Escrow RTM bits and tried to upgrade my laptop: this incompatibility report appeared: ( I had to take Two screenshots of it. Funny, but I can imagine why.