Information wants to be free!
For some time now I have been trying to make persistent differencing disks work in VirtualBox. The idea is to have one base disk with all the software that all the VMs you want to deploy needs. Typically the OS, all patches up until the time you created the base disk, common apps like Flash …
Continue reading “Working with differencing disks in VirtualBox”
I use Oracle VirtualBox for much of my testing and demos. Yesterday I figured I wanted to connect two machines in a way that enabled the VMs on one talk to the other, while at the same time keeping the traffic isolated. The easiest way I could think of was adding a second NIC in …
Press the DEL key to enter the VM BIOS If you can’t install the Virtual PC Integration Components on Windows XP and you get a 1603 error in the log file; delete the c:windowssystem32driverswdf01000.sys and retry the install. Press SHIFT+ESC while the VM is starting to view the console instead of just the progress bar. …
The Internal network network in Windows Virtual PC (WVP) has a built in DHCP service that provides the clients connected to it with addresses in the 169.254.0.16 to 169.254.10.254 range. If you need to disable this DHCP service this is how you do it: Shut down or hibernate all your running virtual machines Wait for …
Continue reading “Windows Virtual PC: Disable the Internal network DHCP server”
All Microsoft virtualization software allows you to manipulate virtual hard disk files (VHDs). The standard operations you can perform are listen in the table below. * To fixed of same size as source ** To dynamically expanding of same size as source What is missing here is the ability to shrink disks, either dynamically expanding …
Continue reading “Reducing the size of a dynamically expanding VHD file”
Here is a short script that will install the prerequisites for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: ServerManagerCMD.exe -i PowerShell ServerManagerCMD.exe -i Web-Server ServerManagerCMD.exe -i Web-Asp-Net ServerManagerCMD.exe -i Web-Metabase ServerManagerCMD.exe -i Web-WMI Since ServerManagerCMD.exe is deprecated in Windows Server 2008 R2 and has been replaced with PowerShell cmdlets, here is the PowerShell command as well: …
Continue reading “How to install System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 prerequisites”
The GUI insatller (setup.exe) for the Virtual Server 2005 Virtual Machine Additions do not offer a reinstall or repair option. That means that if you ever experience any problems with any of the additions you are forced to first remove the additions, reboot, reinstall them and the reboot again. But if you use the MSI …
Continue reading “How to reinstall Virtual Server 2005 Virtual Machine Additions”
Find this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREVMware, Inc.VMware Tools or, if you’re on x64: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeVMware, Inc.VMware Tools Change the ShowTray DWORD value to 0. Since this is in the HKLM hive it will take precedence over the same setting under HKCU. If you want to disable the icon only for the logged on user, change the same value …
Continue reading “How to remove the VMWare tray icon for all users”
I recently had to warnings in the Virtual Server log on my Virtual Server 2005 R2 host: Type: Warning Event: 1130 Date Time: 27.06.2007 22:28:42 Source: Virtual Server ComputerName: HOME-VSHOST Category: Virtual Server User: NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE Description: The service principal names for Virtual Server could not be registered. Constrained delegation cannot be used until …
Continue reading “Virtual Server 2005 and Service Principal Names (SPN)”