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Dell Latitude E6400, STOP 0x101 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

Posted Sunday, April 5, 2009 9:55 PM by Ken
My work recently gave me a new Latitude E6400 (the E6500 was just a bit too heavy) which is a great machine for running virtual machines out of the office. It has an internal 7200 RPM drive, a modular drive (120GB 1.8" 5400 RPM) and I can connect Read More...
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Home Data Centre Upgrade #3

Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:32 PM by Ken
After adding extra disks to the home "data centre" and then getting a new backup device ( Dell RD1000 ), today I took a punt on upgrading the RAM. When I originally bought my Dell PE SC1430 it was rated at a maximum of 8GB RAM. The latest models Read More...
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SCVMM 2008 Beta 1 install fails at the WAIK prerequisite step

Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2008 8:50 PM by Ken
I was just trying to install SCVMM 2008 Beta 1 today. When installing the SCVMM 2008 Server, it failed installing the WAIK prerequisite asking me to instead install this manually. Attempting to run the WAIK msi directly from the prerequisites folder (\prerequisites\WAIK\1033) Read More...
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Converting from VMWare Server to Hyper-V RC0

Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:06 PM by Ken
This Easter weekend, having a bit of downtime, I decided to convert my virtual infrastructure at home from VMWare Server to Hyper-V. The major blocking issue was a lack of RAID controller drivers from 3Ware for their 9650SE-series cards, but thanks to Read More...
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Windows Hyper-V and Wireless adapters - using RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Service)

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:33 PM by Ken
I see that Ben Armstrong has posted instructions on how to use Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to give your Hyper-V virtual machines access to networks via a wireless adapter. However ICS does not appear to work if the network that your wireless Read More...
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Moving a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machine

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 7:32 PM by Ken
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V stores a list of virtual machines in %systemroot%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\virtualisation\Virtual Machines. In that folder are a set of symbolic links, that are linked to the actual config files for each virtual machine. Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V backup (Dell RD1000 review)

Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:24 PM by Ken
Meta: IIS and Kerberos Part 6 is coming (for anyone interested in IIS still reading this blog) The Windows Server 2008 backup feature no longer supports direct backup to disk (you'll need third party backup software to do that). You can backup to Read More...
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Upgrading the home "data centre"

Posted Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:17 PM by Ken
At home I have a small virtualised lab running a number of server services. Unfortunately when provisioning my server, I didn't really consider the space needs of the virtualised Windows Home Server. Originally, I bought 2 x 500GB disks for my server, Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2007 RTMs

Posted Thursday, September 6, 2007 2:00 PM by Ken
Well, I've been very busy wrapping up the first drafts for all the chapters for the upcoming Professional IIS 7.0 book (as well as taking part in a couple of Tech.Ed events), so there's been very little blogwise. However I noticed today the System Read More...
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 released

Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:19 AM by Ken
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 (isn't that a mouthful?) is now available for free download in both 32bit (x86) and 64bit (x64) versions. New features include: PXE boot support for guest OSes A command line tool for mounting VHDs as virtual drives on other Read More...
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Need to run lots of Virtual Machines on a laptop - but need more storage?

Posted Monday, June 4, 2007 7:52 PM by Ken
Previously I talked about running lots of virtual machines on a laptop (I can run about six on my Portege M400). I have some tips on overcoming some of the hurdles I have run into. I've sort of mentioned disk i/o in the previous post, so I won't Read More...
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Can you virtualize a 64bit OS on 32bit host OS?

Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2007 11:37 PM by Ken
Absolutely (as long as it's x64, not ia64). This topic came up at work, and there seemed to be a fair bit of confusion over what's possible and what's not. Using VMWare Server (or a Workstation version that supports 64bit guests) you can run Read More...
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Virtual PC 2007 released

Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 7:42 AM by Ken
Virtual PC 2007 is out now (for 32bit and 64bit) - get it from here and be the first in your neighbourhood to be running VPC07 :-) Some of the major new features include hardware virtualisation support (e.g. for Intel VT) that will dramatically improve Read More...
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Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate available

Posted Thursday, January 4, 2007 7:54 PM by Ken
Virtual PC 2007 RC1 is now available from Microsoft Connect . New improvements include PXE support, fixes for keyboard input lagging on certain laptop chipsets and BSODs when starting Virtual PC after suspending or hibernating your machine. Read More...
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Virtual PC 2007 - First Impresssions Review

Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:43 AM by Ken
Well, there's a few reviews already out there ( 1 , 2 ). In addition to those reviews, a few comments: If you have enable_idle_thread enabled from KB899525 then you may need to disable this, or else your host OS will consume 70-80% CPU even when your Read More...
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