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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 did not perform really. Today I read ...

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3250331a-0116-4064-92d1-50b9b0727b75&DisplayLang=en is the URL to get the new virtualization add-in for visio… You need VSTO runtime for it though…(get that one here...)

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: It works... So now I can run my ''old'' VM's ...

On the virtualization Blog on Technet you will find the most important item for me today: System center Virtual Machine Manager is RTM today. which means, as soon as we can get our hands on the bits for WSv, we can manage it with VMM. I also like the way they plan to proceed with the product: So – in our next set of releases will be adding ...

As I posted previously, I am in love with VMRC plus and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. When you decide to install Virtual Server, and leave out the website, you can install VS2k5r2sp1 and add VMRCPlus later. you do not need to hassle with the IIS setup etc. enabling VMRC access is arranged through VMRC plus. so there seems no need to add resource ...

ITEM 1: If I had it my way, I would create something that would enable me to create dynamically expanding Disks, that would have an initial size, for instance start with a size of 8 GB, while the whole disk would have a size of 127 GB. This takes away a lot of waiting for the disk to grow during installation. while building a machine you could ...

http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/02/25/Where-we_2700_re-headed-with-virtualization.aspx

This site is more than just the ordinary VPC 2007 is released, it offers a couple of nice tips and tricks to keep the performance of both Virtual as physica machines up to speed.  Link to Musings, Ramblings, and the Occasional Useful Information : Virtual PC 2007 Released!

Ronald Beekelaar delivered a presentation about Virtualization in Dublin recently. He is a cool presenter, and a knowledgeable professional. If he gives a presentation near you, you should go and see him. The presentation is downloadable here. UPDATE: the link seems to be broken, access it through this blog.

Is There. the features in it are:   Hardware-assisted virtualization*Virtual PC 2007 includes support for virtualization technology from Intel and AMD. By default, hardware-assisted virtualization is enabled if the feature is enabled on the physical computer. You can turn this assistance on or off for each virtual machine by modifying the ...