IE7 Virtual PC Image and IE6 Virtual PC Image Refresh
From the IEBlog: Hello! Just wanted to give you a quick update that we’ve dropped two new VPC images that you can use with the free copy of Virtual PC 2007.
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19.4.2007 Try Out and Install Windows Vista in Virtual Machine with Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server
Want to install and play with
Windows Vista but don’t have extra or spare computer hardware to load the operating system? Windows Vista addicts can use virtualization technology to create a virtual machine on top of their current operating system which will enable the ability to fresh install Windows Vista on the newly created virtual machine.
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20.11.2006 Virtual PC 2007 now available on Connect
Virtual PC 2007 includes support for virtualization technology from Intel and AMD. By default, hardware-assisted virtualization is enabled if the feature is enabled on the physical computer.
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12.10.2006 Virtual PC 2004 SP1 is freeware!
Microsoft has released an update to Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1, and is now making the virtualization software available free of charge to all users. The company also promised to freely release Virtual PC 2007 next year, bringing support for Windows Vista.
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13.7.2006 Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate
Happy New Year - Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate ready for download.
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3.1.2007 Virtual PC 2007 Final Released
Use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer. Switch between virtual machines with the click of a button.
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19.2.2007 Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1
Save time and money as Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs.
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19.5.2008 Windows CE 6 Beta running in Virtual PC
The first Virtual PC lab is now tested/running (see the screen shot below) - I'm handing the lab over to MSDN today for testing and to release to the MSDN Virtual Labs web site.
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13.7.2006 Enable Aero Glass in Windows Virtual PC
Windows Virtual PC along with XP Mode (RC) was released yesterday for Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise and Professional users.
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6.8.2009 Running Virtual PC 2004 SP1 on Windows Vista
Normally, one would install Virtual PC to run a beta operating system on top of their production environment. In this case however, you might just be risk taking enough to run a beta operating system as your production environment. In such a case, you may have applications or other things that don't work the way you hoped under this operating system. This is where Virtual PC comes in run a production operating system on top of a beta environment. Clever, huh?
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4.3.2006 Microsoft adds Virtual PC 2007 Beta to Connect
Microsoft will offer testers the chance to test the latest version of Virtual PC dubbed Virtual PC 2007.
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5.10.2006 Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1
Yesterday we made the Windows 7 Beta available for public download. Hopefully you’re as excited as I am that the beta is here! The Windows 7 Beta is already getting some rave reviews for its new features, performance, and stability. But it is a beta, and with that comes the potential risk that some things may not work as well as they will in the final release.
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13.1.2009 Windows 7 RC New Features in the Spotlight: XP Mode and Virtual PC
Windows 7 Release Candidate, although virtually at an apparent standstill in evolution since the release of interim Builds 7048 and 7057, does manage to take it up a notch with the secret features Microsoft confirmed to have tucked away since the public Beta Build 7000 in January 2009.
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10.5.2009 Microsoft will start Virtual PC 2007 public beta program in October
A new beta enrollment appeared on Microsoft site Connect: Virtual PC 2007 Beta Program.
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1.10.2006 Download Windows 7 XP Mode RC and Virtual PC RC
Redmond-based software giant Microsoft made available the release candidate flavor of Windows 7’s XP Mode add-on on Tuesday. The beta iteration of XP Mode was released on April 30, along with the beta variant of Windows Virtual PC, and the RC version comes as another step the company is taking towards launching the final iteration of the add-on.
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5.8.2009 Download Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode Final RTM 7600.16393
Microsoft’s virtualization solution for Windows 7, Windows Virtual PC (VPC) and Windows XP Mode (XPM) final RTM builds have been compiled and signed off as build 7600.16393 on September 22nd, 2009.
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9.10.2009 Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC Coming Soon
Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small businesses move to Windows 7. Windows XP Mode provides you with the flexibility to run many older productivity applications on a Windows 7 based PC.
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27.4.2009 Windows 7 - XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
April 30, 2009 is not only synonymous with the broadening of the Windows 7 Release Candidate testing pool, but also with the delivery of additional features for the RC development milestone.
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1.5.2009 Enable RemoteApp in Windows XP or Vista To Publish Programs to Windows 7 Virtual PC Host with KB961741 or KB961742 RAIL QFE
Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7 features an unique and useful feature which allows virtual applications installed on guest operating system of Windows XP or Windows Vista in the virtual machine to be seamlessly accessed and launched from host Windows 7 desktop as if it’s running on the end user’s local computer.
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9.10.2009 Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 available 5 of 5
Windows Virtual PC Beta, a feature of Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7 Enterprise, provides you the capability to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop.
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3.5.2009 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Microsoft Gets Hyper About Virtualization
Microsoft claims that today's Hyper-V beta is an early Christmas present to customers and partners. The view on VMware: The Grinch who stole Christmas.
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16.12.2007 Xen in the Windows kernal or Hyper-V?
Every now and again we'll use this blog to correct errors in the public domain, mainly by journalists or analyst trying to do a good job but who come up short on fact checking due to time constraints.
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21.12.2007 Microsoft Moves Closer To Hyper-V Rollout
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Tuesday unveiled the second release candidate for its long awaited Hyper-V hypervisor, which adds minor tweaks like guest operating system support for Windows 2000 Server and mouse integration tools forNovell (NSDQ: NOVL) SUSE 10 Linux.
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22.5.2008 Microsoft’s Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back — this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008.
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14.2.2008 Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 RC
The release candidate of next version of Windows server operating system - Windows Server 2008 R2 RC has been released by Microsoft. Another variant of Windows Server 2008 R2 is Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
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13.5.2009 Microsoft's Hyper-V release threat level reaches RC status
Microsoft today spat out a release candidate build of its delayed virtualisation software Hyper-V.
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19.3.2008 Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync
Today, the FolderShare Team is shipping a Beta Refresh of both the Windows Live FolderShare website and client that offers some great improvements to the Windows Live FolderShare service at http://www.foldershare.com/.
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11.3.2008 Free Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation Installation ISO and VHD for Hyper-V Official Direct Download Links
Windows Server 2008 R2 is the next iteration of Windows Server operating system, which has been RTMed with build version 6.1.7600.16385 together with Windows 7. Microsoft is now officially releasing the ISO image for Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Software, which allowing administrators and users to install Windows Server 2008 R2 to evaluate the new operating system for 180 days for free.
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17.8.2009 It's a Virtual(ization) Mystery
Microsoft's eleventh-hour switch on Vista virtualization licensing is a case for Nancy Drew—assuming she knows as much about techno-ware as classic wear.
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27.6.2007Hyper-V and slow guest OS installation
Ben Armstrong: I have seen a number of reviews and comments about the fact that while Hyper-V virtual machines appear to be quite fast once they are
up and running - operating system installation seems to take quite a while. The reason for this is relatively easy to explain.
With Virtual Server and Virtual PC we only had emulated devices to use - and as a result we spent a lot of time optimizing and tweaking the
performance of these emulated devices. When we implemented the emulated devices under Hyper-V we had to remove many of these optimizations due to the
entirely different architecture of Hyper-V. We did not, however, spend much time re-optimizing the emulated devices on Hyper-V because we had the new
synthetic device architecture where we have focused our attention for performance tuning.
This means that Hyper-V emulated
devices are slower than Virtual Server / Virtual PC emulated devices - but Hyper-V synthetic devices are much faster than Virtual Server / Virtual PC
emulated devices.
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27.02.2008Hyper-V Performance Counters “ Part four of many
The "Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual Processor" and "Hyper-V Hypervisor Root Virtual Processor" counter sets have the same counters. The only
difference between the two is the "Hyper-V Hypervisor Root Virtual Processor" contains counters for only the Root Virtual Processors (VPs) whereas
"Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual Processor" has counter for all other partitions.
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12.05.2008Hyper-V Security Guide
This Solution Accelerator provides instructions and recommendations to help strengthen the security of computers running the Hyper-V role on Windows
Server® 2008. It covers three core topics: hardening Hyper-V, delegating virtual machine management, and protecting virtual machines.
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31.03.2009Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Hyper-V
The guide helps you become familiar with Hyper-V™ by walking you through the steps of installing the Hyper-V role, creating a virtual machine, and
installing an operating system on a virtual machine.
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19.12.2007Hyper-V Beta Demo Videos
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15.12.2007Virtual Machine Snapshots with Hyper-V
Robert Larson: Snapshots are a new feature of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Snapshots are a point in time version of a virtual machine¦..what does that
mean you ask? It means that you can be running a virtual machine, take a snapshot and at any point you can select a previous snapshot and revert back
to that point in time.
You end up with the virtual machine in the EXACT configuration that it was when you took the
snapshot¦and I mean exact¦.memory, virtual hardware, processes, state, etc. So you can have a running virtual machine, take a snapshot, change the
virtual hardware configuration, format the disk and install a different OS, it does not matter, when you apply the previous snapshot it looks exactly
like it did when you took the snapshot.
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27.04.2008Installing the Hyper-V Beta in a Core configuration
Today I would like to talk about installing Hyper-V on a Windows Server Core configuration. All you need to do is...
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27.12.2007Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1
Robert Larson: Well by now you have heard the news that Microsoft shipped Hyper-V Beta 1 early!!
Like many of you I have been
testing away and thought I would share the steps for creating a host cluster in Windows 2008 and Hyper-V. For those that have built host clusters in
Virtual Server, you will find the process in Windows 2008 and Hyper-V much more streamlined and user friendly. One major improvement is the
integration of Hyper-V as a cluster aware application and native support for making a virtual machine highly available.
So what
are the 10 steps you have to go through to build a host cluster using iSCSI shared storage?
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20.12.2007Why is there a 32-bit Windows Server 2008 option "without Hyper-V"?
Michael Greene: A few questions have come up as to why when you go out to download Windows Server 2008 there is a "without Hyper-V"
option. Further, if Hyper-V is only offered on the 64-bit version, why is there a "without Hyper-V" option for 32-bit?
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01.03.2008Microsoft to give away upgraded Hyper-V software
Microsoft is set to release over the next 30 days an upgraded version of its Hyper-V technology for free, upping the game in the virtualization sector
as it chases VMware. Hyper-V, released in June, is included in most versions of Windows Server 2008. But the company has been charging $28 for a
stand-alone version that could be downloaded from Microsoft's Web site. The new version of Hyper-V will also have a Live Migration feature that
lets administrators move applications as they're running to other servers. The latest Hyper-V will be offered as a download on Microsoft's Web
site.
Microsoft also plans to release within the next month System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, which has been available as a beta
since April. The software is used for provisioning and managing virtual machines, among other tasks. It's compatible with Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 or VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3, the company said.
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08.09.2008Windows Virtual PC Evaluation Guide
This guide describes how to install Windows Virtual PC and set up a virtual environment, such as Windows XP mode or a custom virtual machine. It also
shows you how to try out some of the key features of Windows Virtual PC.
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30.04.2009Microsoft Makes Virtual PC
Freeware
Microsoft has released an
update to Virtual PC 2004
Service Pack 1, and is now
making the virtualization
software available free of
charge to all users. The
company also promised to
freely release Virtual PC 2007
next year, bringing support
for Windows Vista...
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13.07.2006Things that Virtual PC needs to be run as Administrator for...
For the most part Virtual PC is able to happily run when you are using a non-administrative user account and everything will work. There are -
however - a couple of things that will not work correctly unless Virtual PC is run under an Administrative account...
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04.01.2008Hyper-V WMI Documentation Available
The WMI provider for virtualization and the hypervisor API enable developers, and scripters, to quickly build custom tools, utilities, and
enhancements for the virtualization platform. The WMI interfaces can manage all aspects of the virtualization services.
Virtualization services require a x64-based system that supports hardware-assisted virtualization running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Programs
that interact with the WMI interfaces however, can run remotely on any system that supports WMI.
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24.01.2008"Virtual" HPC Cluster on a Notebook PC...?
Maybe a stretch, eh? Well maybe not if you just want to experiment with the tools and platform technologies. Today, you can acquire a multi-core
notebook supporting a CPU/RAM combination capable of running multiple virtual machines simultaneously. This allows you to experiment not only with
new Windows Server 2008 RC0 Virtualization (i.e. "Hyper-V"), but also Windows Compute Cluster Server and Visual Studio 2008 release candidate.
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16.11.2007How To: Get Windows 7 Aero in a Virtual Machine
This week, Microsoft made the XP Mode RC available to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate users. Most Virtual Machine emulating software
has not offered support for Aero previously, including Microsoft's own Virtual PC 2007. Now, thanks to the powerful set of "Integration
Components" in Windows 7 Virtual PC and the enhanced, updated version of Remote Desktop in 7, we can now have the full Aero Glass experience in
Windows 7 Virtual Machines, provided the host can handle Aero, and has it enabled. Here's how to get it: This assumes you already have Windows
7 installed on your PC in Virtual PC. Step 1: Enable Aero on your host machine.
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07.08.2009Microsoft releases XP mode RC for Windows 7
Microsoft has released updated bits of Windows XP Mode for Windows 7. XP Mode is a method to provide better compatibility in Windows 7, and to pull
it off with as little trouble as possible. It's also dubbed XPM, or formerly Virtual XP. XPM is built on the next generation Microsoft Virtual PC
7 product line, which requires processor-based virtualization support (Intel and AMD) to be present and enabled on the underlying PC, much like
Hyper-V, Microsoft's server-side virtualization platform. XP Mode will bring a Virtual PC-based environment, as well as a fully licensed version
of Windows XP SP3, free for all owners of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions. XPM will provide 100% compatibility with Windows
XP.
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04.08.2009Windows Server 2008 Virtual Hard Drive Images
The Microsoft VHD format is the common virtualization file format for Virtual PC, Virtual Server 2005 and Hyper-V that provides a uniform product
support system, and provides more seamless manageability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency for customers.
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04.06.2008First Hyper-V Support Emerges From Desktop Virtualization Supplier
Provision Networks, a division of Quest Software, is jumping into desktop virtualization this week with its Virtual Access Suite, a desktop
virtualization system that supports Microsoft's Hyper-V.
That makes Provision Networks the first vendor to make Microsoft's
Hyper-V hypervisor the focus of its desktop virtualization efforts. Hyper-V is available in beta form at the Microsoft Web site and will soon to be
part of Windows Server 2008.
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01.05.2008Microsoft announces availability of Hyper-V Server 2008
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced the release of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 during the TechNet Server and Tools keynote address in
London. Hyper-V Server 2008 is now available from
the Microsoft website as a
no-cost download.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a bare metal hypervisor, meaning that it runs directly on top of physical hardware
allowing virtual machines operating systems to run on top of it, similar to VMWare's ESX platform or Citrix XenServer. Previous Microsoft
virtualization platforms requires a separate Windows session running as a host, with virtual machines running on top of that.
Companies
that deploy a Hyper-V virtualization solution for can consolidate Windows or Linux workloads onto a single physical server or to run client operating
systems and applications in server-based virtual machines in the data center. Management is done through Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine
Manager 2008, which is currently available as beta software, although Microsoft expects final version will be released by the end of the month.
Minimum hardware requirements for Hyper-V Server include an x64 processor with hardware-assisted virtualization (either Intel VT or AMD
Virtualization) that is also Data Execution Protection (DEP) enabled. It also requires a second computer, typically in an Active Directory environment
running the Hyper-V manager.
Both Dell and HP will be delivering servers based on this new hypervisor.
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