Posted in Future Howard, Virtualisation on Feb 3rd, 2010
The Windows Server Performance team show how to increase network throughput to guest VMs on Hyper-V. Linking here for Future-Howard, who will certainly need it again.
Windows Server Performance Team Blog : Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs.
Posted in Future Howard, Hardware, Virtualisation on Jul 30th, 2009
Some time ago I posted at length about Sony’s decision to disable the Virtualization Technology features of the Intel chips in their high-end laptops, namely my Vaio Z11.
Well thanks to the sterling efforts of one man and his EFI hacking skills, we now have a solution as this image demonstrates. The image on [...]
Posted in Hardware, Virtualisation on Sep 3rd, 2008
Update 30th July 2009: See this post for details of a confirmed VT fix for the Z11. I’m using it now!
I love my Sony Vaio Z. It’s a wonderful bit of kit – exactly the power/portability ratio I wanted. It has enough grunt to play the odd game in “Speed” mode while giving 6 [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Networking, Virtualisation on Jan 30th, 2008
I’m looking for help here.
The image (click to embiggen) you see here is a screen capture of one of my virtual machines suffering some form of graphic corruption. It should look like this. This happens often enough now that it is seriously irritating. I can make it go away by closing VMRC and [...]
Posted in Software, Virtualisation on Jul 26th, 2007
This was a weird one. I’ve just built the new x64-based VM server, and moved a number of my VMs onto it for testing. A few of those VMs run under a local (to the host) service account so they can be automagically started by the server. For some reason, the VMs which had been [...]
Posted in Future Howard, Virtualisation on Jul 23rd, 2007
Again, a techy post more for my future self’s benefit (so little space in my memory for anything useful, it being full of StarTrek trivia and the like). A trick to optimise a VHD (Microsoft’s Virtual Harddrive format – used in Virtual PC and Virtual Server). Turn of the system file checker. Not [...]
Posted in Virtualisation on Jan 23rd, 2007
Just what I was looking for: a tool to convert existing VMWare drive images to Microsoft Virtual Server (or Virtual PC) format. Now I’m a Microsoftie (by virtue of my contract, anyway) it’s good to be able to use Microsoft’s tool instead of VMWare! The same site has a VHD expander tool (think Virtual [...]
Posted in Apple, Games, Hardware, Internet, Microsoft, Software, Virtualisation on Apr 19th, 2006
Richard sent me an email yesterday with a link to this article along with the message “You’ll love this one…” If you’ve followed the Windows on Mac saga recently go and read it now, if you’re anything like me and Richard you’ll have plenty to say on the subject once you’ve finished reading.
I couldn’t believe [...]
Posted in Apple, Games, Hardware, Microsoft, Software, Virtualisation on Apr 12th, 2006
The MacBook Pro is great running XP; but has several flaws which mean it probably won’t become my primary machine just yet…
No Audio Routing
If you plug headphones into the headphone socket audio continues to come out of the speakers. This is known (and documented by Apple) but is still irritating. If I’m in the office [...]
Posted in Hardware, Infrastructure, Internet, Microsoft, Networking, Software, Tech Support, Virtualisation on Mar 4th, 2006
We recently had the need to simulate a routed environment with low bandwidth/high latency links between remote sites. To achieve this I used m0n0wall – a free software router – running inside Microsoft Virtual Server on multiple virtual NICs. Here’s how to get it up and running…