How to handle permissions for Hyper-V disks
This is a repost from this article I recently created a large number of Hyper-V virtual machines as a part of an educational video series that I am about to…
Exporting Hyper-V Client IP Address Details to a CSV
Took a file to figure out the correct syntax -- the following line will export all of the primary IP Addresses along with the name and mac address in a…
Lanuching Visual Studio Android Emulator from the command line
Quick command line to launch the Visual Studio Android Emulator for Lollipop%ProgramFiles(x86)%Microsoft XDE10.0.1.0xde.exe /sku Android /displayName "VS Emulator 5" Lollipop (5.0) XXHDPI Phone" /memSize 2048 /diagonalSize 5 /video "1080x1920" /vhd…
Nesting Hyper-V with VMware Workstation 8 and ESXi 5
Original Source Post: http://www.veeam.com/blog/nesting-hyper-v-with-vmware-workstation-8-and-esxi-5.html As Veeam moves forward and starts to become focused two virtualization platforms, I thought to myself now is the time to work out how I’m…
Improving Performance of your Virtual Machine
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/31303/improve-vmware-vm-performance-by-defragmenting-virtual-disks/ Improve VMware VM Performance by Defragmenting Virtual Disks Have you noticed your VMware virtual machines sees like they’re sluggish and slow to respond? Here’s how you can quickly…
How to automatically shut down VMware ESXi gracefully during power failure using an APC UPS
In this latest post by TechHead guest contributor James Pearce he covers a topic near and dear to many of us – how to get VMware ESX/ESXi and its…
Configuring Network Interfaces in VMWare Player7 and VMWare Workstation 7
VMWare Player is a free verson of VMWare Workstation with reduced functionality -- mainly you cannot easily create new Virtual Machines and you cannot take advantage of advanced features like…
How to reset the UUID for a Virtual Hard Drive
<PATH TO VIRTUAL BOX>VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid <PATH TO VHD>VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.All rights reserved.UUID changed to: 46a453bd-4d03-4988-a066-6ecfc6ced308
Hyper-V Script: Compact VHD
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/06/11/hyper-v-script-compact-vhd.aspx
Resizing a VHD drive
Resizing a VHD drive is not particularly complicated, it just involves a number of steps. To Shrink Mount the VHD in Windows 7/2008 using Disk Management Tools (or DISKPART) Defragment…