joelgibby.net » MS Virtual Server http://joelgibby.net I know people from the future. Ask me anything. Tell me what you know. Mon, 14 May 2012 22:56:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Windows Server Virtualization (Viridian) Announcement (sad) http://joelgibby.net/2007/05/10/windows-server-virtualization-viridian-announcement-sad/ http://joelgibby.net/2007/05/10/windows-server-virtualization-viridian-announcement-sad/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 04:14:42 +0000 joelgibby http://joelgibby.net/2007/05/10/windows-server-virtualization-viridian-announcement-sad/ Oh come on now! (Windows Server Division Blog)

They already are releasing the product late (the BETA will be released in conjunction with the RTM of Longhorn), and now they are removing some of the most highly-touted features that actually were going to set the product apart from the leader? Some of the ground-breaking features being axed:

  • Hot-add of resources (memory, processor, storage and networking)
  • Live migration (this is a killer app currently being offered by VMWare in their VMotion technology)
  • Support limit of 16 cores (4 processor, quad core) though I don’t see this as a big issue. I think you’d need some pretty hefty hardware for your host to even get close to that many cores being useful. My vision probably isn’t as broad as the developers though – I’m sure we’ll see Quad-proc, Octo-Core boxes on the desktop a few years out.

Stings, doesn’t it? Time to start looking at VMWare…

Another dismal take on the news.

]]> http://joelgibby.net/2007/05/10/windows-server-virtualization-viridian-announcement-sad/feed/ 0 Virtual Server not cleanly shutting down http://joelgibby.net/2006/12/21/virtual-server-not-cleanly-shutting-down/ http://joelgibby.net/2006/12/21/virtual-server-not-cleanly-shutting-down/#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:36:06 +0000 joelgibby http://joelgibby.net/2006/12/21/virtual-server-not-cleanly-shutting-down/ We have a few virtual servers here and have seen issues when shutting down a virtual server host machine. When the system comes back online, all the virtual servers come up fine, but they all have been shutdown unexpectedly (as if there were a power failure). I found this entry on Virtual PC Guy’s Weblog that details a registry key that will instruct windows to wait longer than the usual 20 seconds before killing a non-responding service (if you have more than one virtual machine, it may take longer than 20 seconds to shut it down or save state).

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/06/07/426475.aspx

The key is [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WaitToKillService] . The time is in milliseconds.

On another note, here is an article detailing the steps to enable shut down or save state of a virtual machine when the Virtual Server Service shuts down.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/46057/46057.html

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