Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 RC1 VHD download

 

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 a lot of components), configure provisioning etc, etc.   Anyway, now with FIM 2010 VHD available for [...]

Windows Server 2008 R2 Free E-Book

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 New in Windows Server R2    1
Chapter 2    Installation and Configuration: Adding R2 to Your World    9
Chapter 3    [...]

Free Physical to virtual (Disk2VHD,P2V) tool for Microsoft Virtual PC or Hyper-V

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 course till now we had Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), but to implement SCVMM customers need to buy [...]

Duke Nukem goes virtual or How to virtualize Duke Nukem using Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)

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 the process of virtualizing? Well whole process is rather simple, as I will show post on this [...]

Why virtual machine suddenly goes into paused critical state?

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 to you, and you were asking yourself the same question, the answer lies within low [...]

Virtual PC based virtual machine inside Hyper-v based virtual machine?

Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

If you plan to install Linux virtual machines running on Hyper-V then you probably would like to have Linux Integration Components. Now you can download them all from Microsoft download center.

Virtualization tool – Can my computer run Hyper-V?

After availabillity of Hyper-V, a lot of people  are migrating from Virtual PC to Hyper-V. The first step here is checking comuter hardware for virtualization capabilities. Things you need to check are:  “is my CPU x64, can i enable DPE (Data Execution Prevention  in BIOS), and does my computer supports hw virtualization. You can do [...]

Virtualization now and here

by Domagoj Pernar