Virtual Environments

Cleaning Up Orphaned Network Adapters After Migrating MS VPC 2007 / MS VS 2005 VPCs to Hyper-V

Sometimes you are unable to remove the Virtual Machine Additions and network adapters from a VPC made with the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 / Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 VPC format before you migrate it to the Hyper-V format.  When this happens orphaned network adapters exist in the migrated VPC.  You may not even know you have orphaned network adapters until you reboot your migrated Hyper-V VPC for the first time.  These network adapters can wreak havoc on your Hyper-V VPC. This post describes how to migrate a Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 / Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 VPC to Hyper-V format when...

posted @ Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:00 AM | Feedback (0)

Hyper-V SharePoint Development Image: USB 2.0 vs. eSATA vs. C:\ shootout

During my preparations for the the MSDN Webcast I'm presenting tomorrow I realized the eSATA drive I purchased was not performing as fast as I thought it would.  I decided to see exactly how fast my external hard drive runs a virtual machine when it is connected via USB 2.0 vs. the eSATA interface. I also threw in a test to see how the virtual machine runs on the host machine's C:\.  It's been a couple of years since I benchmarked a SharePoint virtual machine, so I thought I would share the results with everyone.  Hyper-V is the virtual technology...

posted @ Monday, December 01, 2008 10:22 PM | Feedback (15)

MOSS 2007 B2TR Virtual Development Environments. To MS or VM: That is the question

To MS, or VM: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to shell out the cash for extra memory and an external hard disk, Or to take your desktop and turn it into a development server, and by doing so save money. Wow, I believe my high school teacher who taught me about Hamlet will retract my diploma if he ever reads this. This post is not actually about Hamlet, it’s about choosing a virtualization technology. Now that MS and VMWare both offer free virtualization products, developers have two options to choose from when it comes to virtual...

posted @ Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:21 AM | Feedback (4)