Today I took a closer look at the Windows Services running on Windows7. A lot of the performance improvements with Windows7 are related to the way how and when services are being loaded so i thought it’s worth to see what’s happening there. I first installed a Windows 7 build 7077 and a Windows Vista [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Hyper-V category.
Hyper-V Terminology
Talking to people about virtualization almost every day, I notice that many aren’t that familiar yet with all the terminologies. Ben Armstrong has written two good articles on his blog, describing all the terminologies used around Hyper-V. Hyper-V Terminology Hyper-V Terminology Update One of the things that seems to confuse people a lot is understanding [...]
2008 Virtualization review
Brian and Gabe review the big events, trends, and themes of the desktop and application virtualization space from 2008. Watch Brian Madden TV Episode 1 – 2008 year in review
Converting WIM to VHD
Today I’ve tested the WIM2VHD script provided by Mike Kolitz a Software Design Engineer from the Hyper-V Team at Microsoft. In short, the script allows you to create a bootable VHD file directly from Windows 7 installation media, so you don’t need to go through the whole Windows Installation process. Once the VHD is completed, [...]
Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration Overview
With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V will also support “Live Migration”. Today Hyper-V provides “Quick Migration” which still means a short downtime, with Live Migration a move from one to another Hyper-V system can be performed without any system downtime. A feature overview document can be found here. And a step by [...]
