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USB in Hyper-V Child?

Published 16 July 8 5:24 PM | Charlie Russel

It's still early days yet, but I think I've found a simple and very satisfactory solution to the problem of no USB support in Hyper-V. FabulaTech's USB Over Network product is simple to install - you install the Server side of it on whatever...

Filed under: Hardware, Software, General x64, SBS, Virtualization, Server 2008, Hyper-V

Hyper-V Release Candidate Released

Published 19 March 8 7:13 AM | Charlie Russel

For those of you testing or using Hyper-V as your virtualization solution, the good news is that they appear to be on track for a final release by the end of the summer. Microsoft has just announced the release of the Hyper-V RC. This update adds Vista...

Filed under: Software, Vista x64, Virtualization, Hyper-V

Acronis True Image Enterprise

Published 2 July 7 6:16 AM | Charlie Russel

As some of you know, I've been fighting to live with Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Virtual Server - without much success, I might add. I strongly suspect it's related to networking, but whatever the cause, it's been a disaster here. After losing...

Filed under: Software, General x64, Server, PowerShell, ML350, Virtualization, SP2

VMRCPlus

Published 1 July 7 3:1 PM | Charlie Russel

For any of you running Virtual Server as your virtualization solution (and I am certainly in that camp for all except 64-bit guests), here's a great tool that gives you everything that VMRC should be, but isn't - VMRCPlus . Even if you're...

Filed under: Software, Virtualization

More bad news on MS Virtualization

Published 11 May 7 12:34 AM | Charlie Russel

More details from Mike Neil at: Windows Server Blog about the features that won't be in Viridian. These include no hot add of resources (storage, networking, memory, and processor), no live migration, and a limit of 16 logical processors (cores)....

Filed under: Software, Longhorn, Virtualization

Virtualization Delays from Microsoft

Published 16 April 7 1:27 AM | Charlie Russel

Mike Neil, the General Manager for Virtualization at Microsoft has posted an updated schedule for the release of the Viridian beta and the final release of Virtual Server R2 SP1. Both are delayed into the second half of this year. I have to say, I'm unhappy...

Filed under: Software, Server, Longhorn, Virtualization