I was reading the wikipedia page on ABI, which describes what an ABI must specify, and the Xen page which states that they have a special hypercall ABI for their paravirtualisation. My question is, since programs will execute using say, the Windows ABI in the VM, how is the Xen ABI an ABI? ...
In our current WinForms app, we are displaying millions of records in ListView, using virtualization. Rows are loaded from DB as they are requested. This works well, with good performance. This is a showstopper for migrating to WPF for us. We need data virtualization in a ListView, like WinForms 2.0 has. Do you know a decent third-pa...
I have a set of C# (v2) apps and I am struggling with registry virtualization in Win7 (and to a lesser extent Vista). I have a shared registry configuration area that my applications need to access in HKLM\Software\Company... Prior to Vista, everything was just written to and read from that location as needed. The code appropriately d...
I am having some difficulty in determining how best to implement the different parts of reporting services. Our company has just bought a new slew of servers and a shared SAN to support our growing infrastructure. Our servers are running VMware and we have several virtual machines each with their own tasks load balanced across the set ...
Why does it help to know about virtualization from a programmer's perspective? Except testing and developing on several different platforms without the need of switching between operating systems is there a particular reason why virtualization is important for a programmer? Are there any details that must be kept in mind before developin...
Virtualization & Cloud Computing. I know these are very vague, nebulous words that mean so many different things. They are also the topics that are most discussed today. However, because they are so new, they are not taught in schools. I was lucky to have couple lectures on virtualization technology and read a paper about it. I now want...
I want to sharpen my skills in terms of gnu/linux and get a better understanding of how servers work. So I thought I'd set up an apache webserver with ftp, ssh, svn etc. Since I use Adobe products everyday in my line of work installing a linux dist. straight on my machine isn't an option. Yes, I could probably do a dualboot with linux an...
I need recommendations on a good IE standalone for IE6, IE7 and IE8. I tried using Tredosoft's IE7 and MultiIE for IE6 but select elements were being blocked as pop-ups, even when the pop-up blocker was turned off, in all IE browsers (6,7,8). I also tried the Internet Explorer Collection from Edskes but IE6 and IE7 refuse to let me typ...
Hi, I would like to script a build of a virtual machine from a base image, with a number of files and folders being copied across to the target machine, and some software also installed on it. Is this possible? Which technology is best suited to this - VMWare, Virtual PC/Server or Virtual Box? The solution has to run on WS2003 or WS2...
I have a software that is pretty complex in the sense that it uses a lot of interacting processes, os daemons, services, etc. So I think the most sensible way of distributing it would be as a virtual machine image, otherwise the installation in an arbitrary machine would be too complex. What are the pros and cons of such a model? What...
I'm wondering if anyone has any best practices for automating the testing of installers on various machines with potentially different hardware / software profiles and by specifying various options to the installer. The idea would be that I could write "unit test like" code to set up a machine, run the installer, then test that certain ...
IA-32 defines various cases in which the CPU may invalidate the entire TLB. Starting with the ASID extensions that AMD released in Opteron Rev-F processors (Barcelona?) there are cases in which only the TLB entries of a certain ASID are invalidated. The question is, does the ASID itself ever stop being valid? Does the Hypervisor hav...
Does anyone know of a ListView implementation that support UI Virtualization when grouping is enabled? By default the VirtualizingStackPanel is disabled when grouping is setup. It seems that Microsoft is not going to implement this within v4.0 of the .NET Framework so I am look for alternate solutions. ...
Is there a debugger which works from a virtual machine's host? That is, instead of using interrupts inside the machine, I expect this debugger to recognize the virtual machine's OS routines, memory locations etc, and to recognize when the OS is launching a certian EXE. Then I want to be able to set hardware-like breakpoints per process ...
I want to run Mac OS in my Windows operative system, is there any virtual machine that does that? Tnks. ...
Hi, Just a quick query on anyone whos worked with XenServer, I want to setup a NAS at home but with virtualization (I've looked into VMWare Server and KVM, I quite like KVM!) but I was told about XenServer 5.5. I have comomodity hardware (ASUS board, dual core 2.66Ghz CPU with 8Gb RAM), I need to setup a fileserver to house about 2-3Tb...
I have some webservices hosted in a sharepoint environment on a virtual machine. These services are accessible from within the VM, but when I try to invoke this service from my asp.net application on the host machine I get an error with status 500 and a soap fault exception (unauthorized access). The IIS setting on both host and VM all...
Hi, Just to ask if there are any non-proprietary virtual image clients available, i.e. an application capable of running .vhd and/or .vmdk based virtual images? I have searched online, but have not been able to find any. Note, I am actually looking to avoid using the bloated VMware Server 2.0, with its web interface and resource hun...
For testing our product's installer, I maintain a tree of virtual machine snapshots with different previous versions installed. It is a tedious task to do Windows Update, re-snapshot, delete parent snapshot on each VM. Is there an automated solution for keeping a group of VMs up-to-date? I use VirtualBox but have access to VMware Workst...
Hi, I have added UI Virualisation to my combobox with 1000 items in it. <ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding}"> <ComboBox.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <VirtualizingStackPanel /> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </ComboBox.ItemsPanel> </ComboBox> The scrolling is now superfast :-) but the initial "open" is stil...