Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization technology now supports CentOS Linux distribution. That actually means that now you can run CentOS as guest OS under Hyper-V. CentOS is community-supported, mainly free software operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Besides that, Microsoft already supports Hyper-V environments that include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 is now available and can be downloaded from Microsoft download site. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 is a free standalone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs.
Great news these days from Microsoft Virtualization: Dynamic Memory allocation will be feature of new Service Pack for Hyper-V R2. Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode will run now on computers that don’t have hardware virtualization capabilities. Surely [...]
Windows XP is still by far most used operating system worldwide as you can see here and here. Also, virtualization is one of the most popular technologies and a lot of companies use Hyper-V as their virtualization solution. So then they [...]
New VHD available from Microsoft – Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Rc1. This VHD is really useful to get you going with FIM, because clean FIM installation and configuration can take pretty much time. You need to install all FIM components (and believe me, there are [...]
Hello again. I am happy to announce that Microsoft published free Windows Server 2008 R2 E-Book (with two virtualization chapters), and you can download it from here (PDF file, 11.1 MB). Book has 200 pages and following chapters : Introduction xvii Chapter 1 What’s [...]
When I first read news about this free physical to virtual tool, I was happy for couple of reasons: On projects, customers are often asking about some kind of free tool from Microsoft to create VHD’s from physical computers. Of [...]
Duke Nukem 3D goes virtual or ‘How to virtualize Duke Nukem with Microsoft Application Virtualization’ Have you ever wondered is it possible to virtualize 3D games with Microsoft Application Virtualization? Well, the answer is simple yes. And what about [...]
One day I was doing demo of all six MDOP products, and 5 minutes after demo my Hyper-V virtual machine suddenly paused and my screen froze. What’s the deal with that, I was asking myself? So if something similar happened [...]
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