Category: Virtualization

SplashTop with Windows 8 and Server 8 on iPad

SplashTop with Windows 8 and Server 8 on iPad

By: John Stutsman I listened live to “The Home Server Show 180” and one item in particular caught my attention. It was their discussion of a new App called SplashTop and how it could be loaded onto an iPad and linked into Windows 8 – enabling the user to experience Windows 8 touch capabilities on [...]

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How To Run Vail on a Virtual Machine

How To Run Vail on a Virtual Machine

If you are itching to try out WHS Vail, but don’t have an extra box to run it on, a good choice is to install it in a Virtual Machine.  Also, since the Vail Refresh isn’t ready for prime time yet, using a virtual environment is well worth considering. You can run Vail on VMware [...]

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Virtual Machine’s for the masses.

Virtual Machine’s for the masses.

Ever since I read my first article on the subject I was intrigued by the concept of Virtual machines. I was eager to know how practical, easy, and effective it really was to use in an everyday situation.  My approach was not to try and achieve new technical ground or challenge my own capabilities, but [...]

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Hyper-V virtualization in a flash, drive that is – Part 2

Hyper-V virtualization in a flash, drive that is – Part 2

In part 1, we installed the Hyper-V server to our USB drive, and now in part 2 we’ll bring it to life. Our ingredients for part 2: Hyper-V enabled USB Drive (completed in part 1) Hyper-V MMC Management Plugin used on our 2nd computer to manage the virtual machines we install on our Hyper-V computer. [...]

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Hyper-V virtualization in a flash, drive that is – Part 1

Hyper-V virtualization in a flash, drive that is – Part 1

We’ve been talking about virtualization on the podcast, but how can you really give this a try?  Over the next few articles I’ll try to lay out how you can take several free virtualization tools available and turn them into exciting platforms for WHS and other systems.  In these write-ups I’ll go through how to [...]

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