Today if you want to compact a virtual hard disk – you can use Virtual PC / Virtual Server / Hyper-V or Windows 7. But not all methods are the same. Under the covers there are two different approaches that are taken to compacting virtual hard disks:
Virtual PC / Virtual Server:
Perform a blind “block level” compaction. Here the virtual hard
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Today if you want to compact a virtual hard disk – you can use Virtual PC / Virtual Server / Hyper-V or Windows 7. But not all methods are the same. Under the covers there are two different approaches that are taken to compacting virtual hard disks:
Virtual PC / Virtual Server:
Perform a blind “block level” compaction. Here the virtual hard
... read more
Today if you want to compact a virtual hard disk – you can use Virtual PC / Virtual Server / Hyper-V or Windows 7. But not all methods are the same. Under the covers there are two different approaches that are taken to compacting virtual hard disks:
Virtual PC / Virtual Server:
Perform a blind “block level” compaction. Here the virtual hard
... read more
Today if you want to compact a virtual hard disk – you can use Virtual PC / Virtual Server / Hyper-V or Windows 7. But not all methods are the same. Under the covers there are two different approaches that are taken to compacting virtual hard disks:
Virtual PC / Virtual Server:
Perform a blind “block level” compaction. Here the virtual hard
... read more
Core Configurator 2.0 is now available for download here: http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/
If you are unfamiliar with this tool – it is a graphical tool that allows you to configure a whole bunch of system settings on a Windows Server Core installation:
Having spent some time playing with this release I
... read more
Core Configurator 2.0 is now available for download here: http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/
If you are unfamiliar with this tool – it is a graphical tool that allows you to configure a whole bunch of system settings on a Windows Server Core installation:
Having spent some time playing with this release I
... read more
Core Configurator 2.0 is now available for download here: http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/
If you are unfamiliar with this tool – it is a graphical tool that allows you to configure a whole bunch of system settings on a Windows Server Core installation:
Having spent some time playing with this release I
... read more
Under Hyper-V we have two kinds of disk controller that you can add to a virtual machine – IDE disks and SCSI disks. A rough list of the differences between these controllers is as follows:
IDE:
Works on operating systems without integration services installed / available Can be used to boot a virtual machineSCSI:
Supports hot add / remove of virtual hard disksThe type
... read more
Under Hyper-V we have two kinds of disk controller that you can add to a virtual machine – IDE disks and SCSI disks. A rough list of the differences between these controllers is as follows:
IDE:
Works on operating systems without integration services installed / available Can be used to boot a virtual machineSCSI:
Supports hot add / remove of virtual hard disksThe type
... read more
Under Hyper-V we have two kinds of disk controller that you can add to a virtual machine – IDE disks and SCSI disks. A rough list of the differences between these controllers is as follows:
IDE:
Works on operating systems without integration services installed / available Can be used to boot a virtual machineSCSI:
Supports hot add / remove of virtual hard disksThe type
... read more
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