Aug 13 2011
A client recently required Windows Server 2008 server, they already had Windows Sever 2008 R1, with Hyper-v installed and required an additional server. So we ordered a copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 for their additional sever requirements. Upon receiving this copy the license sticker got me intrigued. It had both a physical product key …
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Sep 02 2009
So I came across Sun’s Virtual Box software some time ago and tried booting a 64bit OS on it which at the time seemed a little buggy. I decided that I would give it another go and it seems to just work….. and running on Windows 7 as well. See for yourself….. So if Sun …
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Aug 26 2008
I’ve e-mail and spoken with every Microsoft employee that I’ve come across and there not talking about Virtual PC x64 Support. I’ve been told to wait for PDC. So my best guess is the Virtual/Hyper-V is going to be a built in option to Windows 7. We’ll have to wait and see thou….
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Jul 01 2008
VMWare player crashes when you try and run Virtual PC along side…. great. When I try to open the VHD, it can’t convert. So now I have to spend time installing Windows XP/Vista clients, which I already have into VMWare….. I’m actually thinking of building a new PC to run Windows Server 2008 on …
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Jun 30 2008
I’ would like to be writing about Windows SBS 2008… but I’m having a hard time getting things up and running. SBS 2008 is a 64bit OS, because Windows Server 2008 is a 64 bit OS, nothing really surprising about this. So how do we test new software these days, we tend to use …
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Jun 26 2008
I purchase a WD MyBook USB drive…. which I have to say I’m liking so far…. Cheapist £50 for 300GB… Any how I ran Vista Complete PC Backup, Last night, which creates a VHD image of you PC’s HDD. It doesn’t boot, but you can add it to existing Virtual PC as a second …
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Aug 14 2007
This seems to have been kept very quite… Virtual Server now runs on Vista.. At last I can build small test networks…. No information on the blogs that I subscribe to…. Download
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Aug 15 2006
I purchased Acronis True Image Workstation last night which claims you can restore the backed up image to a Virtual PC. I’ve not tried it yet, but I’ll let you know the results. The complete backup thou took 4 hours to backup 80GIG!
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Jul 31 2006
I have tried this and the images doesn’t boot, I have only tried with Virtual PC 2004 SP1 and not with Virtual Server R2 as of yet, I’ll let you know.
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Jul 27 2006
As Microsoft has opened up the VHD file format would it not be cool if you could use Ghost 9/10 to ghost that PC’s HDD into a VHD file and you could then boot that PC up? This would be very useful….. UPDATE: Regarding VISTA Complete PC, see here.
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