For those who aren’t aware, Windows 7 (which I absolutely love) has the ability to mount and run native Virtual PC VHD’s. This is huge, but it isn’t exactly a cake walk . That is until now! DevHawk has provided a PowerShell script to make life beautiful. Never complain about your...
I just found the reason why I’m going to slap down almost $200 bucks for VMWare Workstation over Virtual PC: Unity. I am using a coworkers VM to help on a project he’s been working on, but he uses VMWare and I use Virtual PC. Instead of buy a license I’m using VMWare Player . Well I...
Today I blew up a server. Couldn't figure something out so I pushed every button I could find, flipped every switch and changed every setting. Nothing. So you know what I did, I deleted it, copied over a new Sysprepped Hard Drive and had a clean slate in about 5 minutes. I figured out my problem...
I do a lot of demos and Virtual PC 2007 is a mainstay in my arsenal for those demos. I've used VMWare Server (the free one) and it is very nice, but I run an x64 OS and VMWare had neglected to sign certain emulation drives which caused me enough headache that I ditched it for the easy of VPC. I mentioned...
If you are running a VPC instance and you'd like to take a screenshot of something on the VPC, did you know you can do that without any photo editing hassle? Simply make sure you aren't "in" the VPC (hit the right Alt key if you are). Now click and drag a square around the portion of...
I create a lot of Virtual PC images, be they for demos, testing, or actual work. If you haven't started using Virtual PC all the time, start. When you do, start syspreping your machines and you'll save yourself a ton of time and find Virtual PC that much more useful. Here is a step-by-step guide...
I use Virtual PC a lot, especially for development. I try to emulate a mini-infrastructure of how I'll be deploying my solutions, so no SQL Server on my box, no IIS on my box, etc. To support this I use Virtual PC Guy's steps for enabling communication between my host and the VPC's. If you...