Azure developers and sysadmins have long asked for the ability to get access to a serial console for their virtual machines (VMs). While it’s generally easy enough to log into a VM after it has booted ...

IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Even ...

Cloud-Init is a bit like custom templates, except it differs on two major accounts. For one, you can grab a pre-made ...

Some time ago, I mentioned that I didn't like the fact that VMWare management clients were Windows-based, and said I preferred to be able to use something like VNC to access the consoles remotely, as ...

Question - I need to be able to paste into a Win7 VM's KVM VirtManager console window as I would be able to if I used RDP (which I can't, see below). Background - I have a client that thinks it's ...

Here are some reasons why your Hyper-V virtual machines might fail to shut down and how you can troubleshoot this recurring issue. Occasionally, you may find that when you attempt to use the Hyper-V ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

For both configurations, the guest can be any Windows-supported guest operating system. Keep in mind that newer Windows operating systems may support enlightenments that improve performance. The most ...

A little less than 1/2 of all Identity Service Engine installations are on VMWare. Yes it’s true. About 45% of all ISE nodes deployed in this world are Virtual. What I don’t know is: how many are in ...