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Fedora 9 and Vista Ultimate Running Virtual Machine 2007 in x64 Environment Fails

I have been playing with Linux distribution Fedora 9. However, I cannot get it to install in my Microsoft Virtual Machine 2007 running in x64 Windows Vista Ultimate SP1. The CPU is a dual core socket 939 Opteron on an Nforce4 motherboard. The error I am recieving is i1586 core does not exist. You better believe it doesn't. See the picture below. I did find several posts in forums that state older x64 processors would be discovered as x32 virtual environments. What makes it really odd is they...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: Virtual Machine, Fedora 9

Microsoft Virtual PC via Multiple Monitor RDP

I am a huge fan of using VM for development and isolated testing. Research by University of Utah , Gartner , and Microsoft among others demonstrates a 9 to 50% productivity increase via the use of multiple monitors. Great, this should be easy then, use a free copy of Microsoft Virtual Machine and Use multiple monitors. Neither Microsoft VPC 2004 nor 2007 support multiple monitors. Wait… what!?!?! VW ware does? There is a work around, this isn’t perfect but it works. Pre- req Remote Desktop Connection...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Windows XP, VNext, Virtual Machine, Vista

Beta of Microsoft's Hyper-V-compatible virtualization manager at MMS 2008

Network World senior editor John Fontana has sent Microsoft Subnet this guest blog. He is reporting from the IDG editors meeting with Microsoft in Redmond this week. He writes: Larry Orecklin, who runs the System Center business and virtualization, laid out the Microsoft vision on virtualization from the server to the desktop. He clearly put the emphasis on management, focusing on core pieces of System Center with Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Data Protection Manager and Virtual Machine...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: MMS, MMS 2008, VNext, VMM, Virtual Machine, Hyper-V

VNext (next version of VMM) will manage VMware - Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Sources: www.bink.nu www.activewin.com and Rakeshm's blog on technet Since we announced a few months back that our next release of VMM (VNext) would manage VMware, I've received lots of questions with respect to why we made this decision and what "manage VMware" really means. Let me walk you through some of the reasoning and thinking. 1) Customers - The primary reason that we decided to manage VMware was, quite frankly, because customers were asking for it. Personally I take this...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SCCM, VNext, VMM, Virtual Machine