Category: Virtualization
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You may have seen the "Smoked by Windows Phone" ad campaign, where a Windows Phone does something faster than another phone. Well how about "Smoked by Hyper-V Server" challenge? As part of my initiative to "Do IT the Microsoft way", I set about switching over from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V. After installing Hyper-V Server…
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The Windows 8 Consumer Preview was released today (02/29/2012). If you want to try it out, there's no better way to do it than with a Virtual Machine using VMWare Workstation 8. As a reminder, only version 8 will work with Windows 8, so if you're still using version 7, it's time to upgrade. If…
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Although no official press release has been made yet, Citrix released XenServer 6.0 today. There are quite a few new features, including GPU pass-through, support for Microsoft SCVMM and SCOM, support for new operating systems, and much more. You can download XenServer 6.0 here, or read the release notes here, or read the new documentation…
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Before VMware released version 8 of their popular Workstation software, it was not possible to run 64-bit guest operating systems (O/S) from an ESXi 4.1 or vSphere 5 guest. This nested Virtual Machine (VM) setup is great for learning and test lab environments, but up until now you were limited to 32-bit guest O/S's. Workstation 8…
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Today I'm going to show you how to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview on VMware Workstation 8. The Windows 8 Developer Preview was just released last night (09/13/2011), and VMware Workstation 8 was just released today (09/14/2011). UPDATE: If you came here because the Windows 8 Consumer Preview was released today (02/29/2012), this…
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VMWare released version 8 of Workstation today. The upgrade costs $99, and a new license will set you back $199. The new version boasts over 50 new features, including: Remotely connect to virtual machines running on VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere, and VMware vCenter anywhere on your network Simply drag and drop when you are…