Virtual Environments
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...
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...
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...