Poor Virtual PC 2007 Performance on a laptop

This has been blogged about elsewhere but I’m trying to get back in the blogging groove and I also want to make note of this somewhere! When I went to the Manchester SBSC group for my SharePoint as a Helpdesk presentation I mentioned I’d had a problem with the performance of my virtual machines. It’s

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Virtual PC – Couple of gotcha’s

Everyone knows virtualisation is a hot topic. I love the fact I can have a complete test infrastructure without having to keep lots of kit hanging around (you should she what’s in my loft at home!) I ran into a couple of hiccups last night which I kicked myself for once I’d realised what the

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Server 2008 Virtualisation thoughts

Microsoft this week announced details of packing, licensing, etc for Windows Server 2008 The part that initially passed me by was this,  (trimmed down for brevity) Microsoft Hyper-V Server, a hypervisor-based server virtualization product, complements the Hyper-V technology within Windows Server 2008, allowing customers to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server. The estimated manufacturer’s

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