Category Archives: Virtualization
Virtual Box
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 … Continue reading
Virtual PC x64 Support
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 … Continue reading
My 64 Bit Nightmare continues…..
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 … Continue reading
Windows SBS 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 … Continue reading
Vista Complete PC Backup
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. … Continue reading
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
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
Creating A VHD file using Imaging Software
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!
Windows Vista VHD CompletePC File..
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.
Windows Virtual Server/PC VHD files…
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 … Continue reading
