Virtual PC is completely integrated in Windows 7
Saturday, May 16th, 2009Yesterday I installed fresh new copy Windows 7 Release Candidate. One of the things that I wanted to install is, of course, Windows Virtual PC. Windows Virtual PC Beta, a feature of Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7 Enterprise, provides you the capability to run multiple Windows environments (and operating systems like Linux, too) such [...]
Windows Server 2008 Virtual Hard Disks
Friday, March 27th, 2009I just saw this great post at Virtual PC Guy’s WebLog. If you are looking for Windows Server 2008 virtual hard disks for your testing environment, you can download them from Microsoft’s web page. Here is the list of Hyper-V based Windows Server 2008 virtual machines with an evaluation period of 60 days, but if [...]
Using NewSID to change SID
Sunday, March 15th, 2009As part of MCITP Self-paced Training Kit: Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator, which was given to me by Microsoft Croatia for learning for MCITP exams, I got 2 Windows Server 2008 installation disks (one is x86, other is x64). I need them for practice tests, and I will use them as virtual machines in Microsoft [...]
Virtual Windows XP SP2 won’t start
Saturday, March 14th, 2009I’m using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for managing my virtual machines. Few days ago, while I was giving my presentation about Windows Server 2008 security technologies at Student technology day, I forgot to plug in my laptop to power source, and at the end of the presentation my battery went dead. I thought it is [...]
Hybrid virtualization
Friday, November 21st, 2008Let’s continue with our virtualization school for beginners. In my previous post, I have explained Type 2 virtualization. In this post, I’ll give you simple schema and description of Hybrid virtualization. In this virtualizaton type, both host OS and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) run directly on the hardware, but with different levels of access to [...]
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