Dear VMware,
In case you hadn’t heard, I wanted to formerly notify you that Microsoft will be releasing its next generation operating system: Windows 7 this month on October 22, 2009. I hope you will be able to make it a supported Guest platform sometime in the near future.
Sincerely,
Ryan
Ok, seriously… I was told by VMware in [...]
In addition to having a name that doesn’t fit nicely in the context of a TLA (Three Letter Acronym), there are some other potential frusterations that you may run into during the install of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 if you don’t do some upfront planning.
I will start of by disclaiming that this [...]
A few days ago, Microsoft submitted 20,000 lines of code to the Linux Kernel. This code is three device drivers that will make it more possible for Linux to run smoothly in a Hyper-V virtual machine! This is really out of the ordinary. It seems Microsoft is realizing that running Linux is desirable as a [...]
It’s pretty common knowledge that USB is not supported on the enterprise virtualization platform (VMware’s ESX and Microsoft’s Hyper-V to name the big players). My question is: why not? I posed to this to our VMware rep recently during a “roadmap” discussion and the best answer that I got was that it’s not in their [...]
New year, new calendar, new budget, and new conferences! Mark your calendars now for the upcoming virtualization conferences that you won’t want to miss in 2009:
VMworld Europe 2009: February 24-26, The Palais des Festivals
VMworld 2009: August 31-Sept 3, Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA
Citrix Synergy: May 4-7, MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, [...]
Recently, several sources have speculated as to whether or not Microsoft is planning to purchase Citrix. Some sources said that Microsoft would buy Citrix before VMware’s VMworld Conference, but clearly that did not happen. However, it is thought that an announcement, if at all, might be made in the next few days.
This raises the question…why? [...]
Remember those days of needing to defrag Windows machines? Oh wait… those days are still with us. And now the situation is worse with virtual machines and the disk mapping between the guest and host.
Well… Diskeeper has announced that their Diskeeper 2008 product has been certified by Microsoft for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. It will [...]