Anyone who knows me personally knows that I run all of my work in a virtual environment. Back in 2009 when Hanselman posted about the Boot-to-VHD option of Windows 7, I had it up and running by the next morning. I’ve not stopped using it since. My Setup I have VHD’s for: Different Clients –…
Category Archives: Virtual PC
Booting to a VHD
If you’re like me and run all development in a VM, then this is going to be great news for you … Hanselman posted an excellent article on how to boot from a VHD. Check it out here. This is exciting stuff and I’m going to give it a whirl this weekend.
Cannot Install Programs on Virtual PC
Our team is having this really odd problem with not being able to install apps in their VPC instances once the app has joined the domain at a client. The error message we get is. “Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements.” No matter how long you wait, nothing happens….
Resizing a VHD and a Volume
I ran into a problem today…. I wanted to install SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 on my virtual pc instance today. I started the install and got an error stating I did not have enough space on my drive to do so. I was about a gig short. This is on a VPC too… NO…
VS2008 VPC’s Are Expiring Prematurely on Nov 1st
Reading Jeff Beehler’s blog posted a thread here stating that the VS2008 VPC’s are going to terminate prematurely because of an OS expiration date of Nov 1st 2007. If you’re using any of the VS2008 VPC’s you’ll want to read this. You’re going to have to back up your TFS database, and then restore it…
