Monthly Archives: September 2008

VM Reconfiguration via the VI Toolkit for Windows

By admin | September 24, 2008

Reconfiguring VM’s via the API is something I’ve had to dabble in lately, due to some…. err.. “interesting” behaviour with deploying VM’s from templates. Such as the inability to deploy a VM from a template that has a SCSI controller but no disk – useful if using LUN based snapshots, where the .vmdk already exists [...]

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Hyper-V Server – Microsoft turns platform arse-about

By admin | September 24, 2008

After a combination of holidays and letting the VMworld blog storm pass, vinternals is back! For those who may not understand the phrase “arse-about”, it means backwards. Which is exactly what Microsoft have done with the upcoming release of Hyper-V Server. The marketing around this product seems to have been a bit lost, so let’s [...]

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Qumranet Acquisition – what does it mean for SPICE?

By admin | September 4, 2008

Sure I’m the 100th blogger to chime in on the Red Hat acquisition of Qumranet, however one thing that seems to be escaping the press is the completely proprietary nature of the SPICE protocol, which is really what made Qumranet stand out from the other KVM based solutions on the market (that and the fact [...]

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