hyperv

Virtual PC 2007 or Hyper-V for personal desktop use?

I'm running Vista on my laptop, but would like to virtualize Ubuntu so that I can boot it from time to time for my personal use (e.g. running code, testing Linux programs). I tried this with Virtual PC 2007 (I allocated 1G of RAM for Ubuntu), and it was very slow. Should I try Hyper-V instead? (Note: I know very little about virtualizati...

Debugging on Win7 HyperV VM, get multiple instances of "0xC0000096 Privileged instruction" exceptions

When I debug a large app (with VS2008) that I maintain on a Windows 7 Hyper V VM, it seems that once I hit a breakpoint, VS constantly throws 0xC0000096 Privileged instruction exceptions( or 0x00000005 Access violation reading 0x03A6E7EB). It doesn't seem to matter where the breakpoints are set either. I can do exactly the same things o...

Monitoring Bandwidth using Performance Counters with Hyper-V

After spending a good few days breaking my head open against my desk, I figured I'd throw this up here on StackOverflow since I've yet to see the question properly answered. This is a multi-part question. Once I know the concepts behind it, I should have no problem throwing it together. 1A) How do you get the InstanceNames associated w...