Working with differencing disks in VirtualBox

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 …

Some Windows Virtual PC Notes

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. …

SCVMM P2V and ISA Server 2006

I recently upgraded my home network to Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG), retiring my old ISA Server 2006 server. I exported my ISA configuration and imported it into TMG, but to be on the safe side I decided to keep a copy of the server as a virtual machine. I used the P2V wizard in …