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Saturday, June 23, 2012 4:54 AM

Booting Windows 8 from Existing VirtualBox VHD from existing Windows 7.

You probably already know that you can boot off VHD from Windows 7. If you don't, it's about time you learn it. It's a very neat feature. You also probably seen blog posts on how to install and boot Windows 8 from VHD ( such as this one from...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011 4:40 PM

I got Windows 8. Goodbye 3rd party virtualization?

Finally, Hyper-V is coming to Windows client and not just server. For a long time I have to use 3rd party products such as VirtualBox, which is very nice, or VMWare Workstation, etc. to run my 64 bit VMs or dual boot to Windows Server instance to try...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:27 PM

Oh Nirvana... VirtualBox, Hyper-V VHD and Synergy

In my daily work, I am doing a lot of prototyping, testing, etc. And for this, I lean heavily on virtualization to isolate my workstation versus the prototyping / testing environment and for its ability to quickly rollback to previous snapshot. Currently...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:06 PM

Clone VHD, MSDTC and SID Trouble!!

Eh, without going into too much detail, if you are cloning a VHD (Hyper-V / VPC / Virtual Server) to create a new VM, make sure to run NEWSID Sysinternal tool after you run the VM the first time to avoid headache.  Ran into this while trying to use...
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