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 [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this week Citrix both announced and re-branded their flagship presentation layer virtualization product: “XenApp 5″ formerly Presentation Server (formerly MetaFrame). It touts lower price points, drastic performance improvements (up to 10x faster launch times), and a much better end-user experience. In addition, Citrix has now created a unified product line to handle all of [...]
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 [...]
With the recent release of Hyper-V, Microsoft is full steam ahead on it’s virtualization strategy. There new catch-phrase/tagline is “getVIRTUALnow“. They will be officially kicking things off with the official Microsoft Virtualization Launch in Bellevue, Washington on September 8th.
Check out the details and register now if you will be in WA next month!
Although no details [...]
I know that I had some problems getting it up and running and from what I have heard/read, I’m not alone. I found a good article that outlines exactly what it takes to get Suse Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 up and running on Microsoft Hyper-V.
http://www.itcomparison.com/blg/virtualization/
hyper-v-suse-linux-enterprise-10-and-component-integration.html
The question is… should it really be this complicated?