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Loading the Virtual Server SCSI Shunt Driver on Vista & Windows Server 2008...
Unlike Hyper-V, Virtual Server allows you to boot a virtual machine off of a SCSI disk. Unfortunately – in some configurations (like mine) this can cause the initial operating system installation to...
View ArticlePowerShell Script to Register a bunch of Virtual Machines [Virtual PC]
When I was getting ready to head out to TechEd this week I copied a bunch of my Windows Virtual PC virtual machines onto a USB disk. 60 of them to be precise. But then I had the problem of how to...
View ArticleWhat physical computer am I on?
Once you start to get more and more virtual machines, and more and more Hyper-V servers, in your environment it can get quite hard to keep track of where a specific virtual machine is actually...
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Turning off a virtual machine
Virtual PC, Virtual Server and Hyper-V all have a simple command to “Turn off” a running virtual machine. Unfortunately, it is one that causes us a bit of consternation when we look at it with...
View ArticleShutting down a virtual machine
What happens when you use the Virtual PC / Virtual Server / Hyper-V user interface to shut down a virtual machine? At the simplest level – we send a message over to the virtual machine that asks the...
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The real “legacy” network adapter
Over the years I have made a hobby of collecting real copies of the hardware that we emulate inside of our virtual machines. And this is one of my favorites – the quad-port Intel 21140 network...
View ArticleAutomating WIM2VHD
As I mentioned yesterday – I have been working on a completely automated virtual machine build process that does not use templates (but build everything from scratch). One of the key tools that I...
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Hyper-V PowerShell One-Line-Challenge
While digging through my notes I came across an exchange between a colleague and I – where we were challenging each other to come up with the most impressive (and functional) “Hyper-V PowerShell One...
View ArticleAdding yourself to the Hyper-V Administrators group with PowerShell
I am currently setting up a couple of new computers – and thought I would share this little tidbit of information. As I have blogged in the past, you do not need to run “As Administrator” to use...
View ArticleLock the VM Console when you close Hyper-V UI
There is a little feature that we snuck into Hyper-V recently that is very handy for our security minded users out there. Normally, if you connect to a virtual machine with Remote Desktop or Enhanced...
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