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Problem moving virtual machines between Hyper-V 2012 hosts
(Huge thanks to Antone Heyward for the answer to this problem.) One of the things I love about Hyper-V 2012 is that you can easily move Hyper-v virtual machines (guests) between Hyper-V hosts using the Hyper-V Manager app. Sure, in previous versions of Hyper-V you could do an Export, Copy, and Import to move VMs…
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How to get accurate Processor % numbers from VMWare during a Load Test.
If you read this blog from time to time, you know that I do a fair amount with Visual Studio Load Testing. Well, when I’m working with a customer who hosts their apps inside of VMWare, it’s always been a just pain to know what’s *really* going on with processor utilization inside the virtual machine…
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TFS Lab Management VMs: “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.”
Have you seen this error before on you Team Foundation Server Lab Management virtual machines? “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.” You’ll probably see it on VMs that 1) are joined to a domain, 2) you don’t use very often, and 3) use Hyper-V snapshots (aka SCVMM “checkpoints”). In reality,…
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Thoughts on Windows Virtual PC (aka Virtual PC 2009) Release Candidate
Well, I got my primary development laptop up and running with Windows 7 RTM. (yay!) As you may have heard, there’s a mode in Win7 that lets you run Windows XP in a virtual machine. This is enabled by a new version of Virtual PC called Windows Virtual PC (aka. Virtual PC 2009). I do…