December 2008 Entries
Well I decided to take the plunge. At a virtualization roadshow event, a fellow lab proctor asked me if I was using it yet. I’ve always gone with Virtual PC since it’s so straight-forward. Virtual Server just seemed so… server-like! I have wished that I could remotely startup a VPC, but in the past I’ve just gone to the computer in question and launched it. From there, I need to either use the Virtual PC software locally or enable Remote Desktop sharing on the guest. This isn’t ideal though. If I’m running a client with RDP support (XP Home, pre-XP,...
Well I had a challenge recently setting up Vista on a new box. I used an older hard drive (40GB) in it for the boot drive. The BIOS clearly showed it just fine as first boot device, and the Vista installer showed it in the list of hard drives, but there was a warning stating that Vista couldn’t find a suitable drive and to check the BIOS. This was quite perplexing. I could format it and set it up, but it wouldn’t proceed to installation since it said it wasn’t bootable. The drive was an old Samsung one and...