I can't access my host machine from my guest machine using the computer name (i.e. WINS). I can access it using whatever IP address it happens to have at the time, but I need a consistent way of accessing it (even if I'm not online). I have a Windows Server 2003 guest virtual machine and a Vista host. I'm using Shared Networking (NAT)...
Duplicate Reasons to Use a VM For Development I'm trying to roll out a policy in my company where all developers have to work on a virtual machine (e.g. VMWare Workstations) that have the dev. environment such as IDE, tools, service packs already installed to make it easier for new team comers, smoother to provision new machines, e...
This is the fifth time now, tried different machines, different drive sizes,even tried both Vista and XP, nothing seems to work. I installed a virtualbox VM. Set up an OS, then try to set up VS2008. And then the VS2008 installation crashes with the following error log [04/13/09,14:27:31] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Insta...
I know that BEA was working on LiquidVM which didn't require an underlying operating system, but would like to know if anyone in the open source community is working on something similar. Ideally I would like to find an implementation where the VM is directly loaded by the OS boot loader. ...
Hello, I'm lost among the zillion versions of VMware. Which one should I choose? I just want to: create VM's take snapshots run it on top of a third party host OS (no ESX) get the least resource intensive for the host OS UPDATE: get it free if possible ("as in free beer") I first went for VMware server but isn't it a bit overkil...
I've read a lot of articles and heard a lot of buzz about virtualization recently. I agree that its pretty neat to fire up VirtualBox and run Windows on my Mac, however I know this is just the tip of the iceberg. I read a lot about how companies are "spinning" virtual machines up a lot and all sorts of other interesting things. However,...
Is there an official way for an application to determine if it is running in VMWare or Virtual PC (or whatever Microsoft is calling it now)? The code I have seen is usually a hack that took advantage of some odd behavioral side effect in a specific version of VMWare or Virtual PC. Ideally Delphi code, but if you can link to an offici...
My main Windows development PC, running Vista Business, is getting a little long in the tooth and I'm considering replacement. Its a dual screen setup with 24" and 19" monitors. My laptop is a reasonably new Macbook and I've been using Parallels to mount a Virtual XP system on it for some time and have been pretty impressed. The new...
I want to make a web service that run other people code locally... Naturally, I want to limit their code access to certain "sandbox" directory, and that they wont be able to connect to other parts of my server (DB, main webserver, etc) Whats the best way to do it? Run VMware/Virtualbox: (+) I guess it's as secure as it gets.. even if ...
I have an Oracle 8.1.7 Server running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server in a Virtual Machine. We are currently using MS Virtual Server to host this. (The allocated hardware is powerful enough - we have 3.5GB RAM assigned, and a single 2GHz processor core, more than most servers in 1999) One of the limitations of Virtual Server i sthe ma...
We're big fans of conducting all our development in virtual machines, mainly for the following reasons: Everyone has a common build which we ask to be kept "clean" of other installed "stuff" Easy of deployment - up and running in an hour or two, rather than a day or two if you need to install our dev stack onto a clean machine We've ...
I have an app modified to take into account the UAC in VISTA. So, now, the .mdb (JET or Access file) is located in ProgramData\MyApp\ I realized that when my app reads the database for the first time it is doing it from that location... but when my app is writting to the database... the file is virtualized and goes to Users\MyUser\AppDa...
Problem: I am using Windows as a guest operating system in a Virtual Machine and a funky keyboard setup. I need a way to be able to troubleshoot cases when keyboard hotkey combinations are not functioning properly. Question: Does anyone know of a program that quickly and easily displays on the screen what keypress windows thinks it got ...
How can I detect if a system supports hardware virtualization via code? (Preferably in C# or C++). I tried using WMI and ManagementObjectSearcher, and could not find a property that seemed to represent if virtualization support was present or not in the machine. Bonus question: Is it possible to tell if the CPU supports HW virtualizati...
Hello, I'd like to import a real Windows Server 2008 server as a Hyper-V Virtual Server on another Windows Server 2008 instance. Anyone have any idea how to do this? I'm looking at the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 but it doesn't seem to import Windows Server 2008 - nor is it free. Is there some other workaround (i.e. ...
After trying and failing to get my hands on a temporary Mac to develop an iPhone app for a client, I've started to look into VMware Workstation to virtualize OS X. I was wondering if there are any gotchas that people have found, or if the whole thing is unworkable. For the record, I have an old stripey-Apple logo I pried off my old A...
Hello. Does anyone know how to install a Vista UPGRADE edition to a virtual machine? Id like to use it for testing with older versions of .NET, but it wont let me install the upgrade version. I'd rather not have to install XP and then Upgrade it. Its a licensed legal copy with CD-Key and all. It just wont install to an empty VM because i...
We have a series of rectangles produced inside a Canvas and they are nested in this order ScrollView>Canvas>VirtualizingStackPanel>Rectangles in the XAML. There seems to be little information on Microsoft about under what senarios Virtualization is supported, and in cases where it isn't no error is thrown, it merely treats it like a sta...
I just downloaded the VS 2010 Beta1 Pro and I want to setup a vm to try the new devenv. Which os and which emulator software should I try for the best performaces? (currently I've XP sp3, Win 7 RC, Win 2008). ...
Is anyone aware of an easy way of duplicating and renaming a virtual PC (can be MS VPC, VMWare or Virtual Box), which is running SharePoint, K2 and acting as a domain controller? I’m looking for a method of creating an image which can be quickly and easily copied and run by multiple parties on the same network simultaneously without name...