Your questions for Microsoft

[Steve]

Our community has been invited to comment on our experiences using Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms, and to post any questions about Microsoft’s Virtualization tools, for a Vistaheads exclusive Q & A and live discussion event on Tuesday 23rd February.

Over the next few weeks, the Microsoft Virtualization team will look at all of your comments and then Edwin Yuen, Senior Product Manager for Integrated Virtualization*, will come back with their responses and then stay online throughout the day for follow-up questions and discussions.

Please post your comments below.

Thanks!

*Edwin Yuen is the senior product manager in the Windows Enterprise Management division for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Edwin has 13 years of technical consulting experience in both the commercial and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
He and other members of his team will be here on the afternoon of Feb 23rd and they’re looking forward to getting your feedback and answering your questions!

[robertmiles]

How can you comment on Hyper-V if you've never seen it before?

Also, could Microsoft add a new program to 64-bit Vista and its successors to provide virtualization of some of the old 16-bit programs that have never been rewritten for 32-bit or 64-bit, but some people, such as those who run BBSs, still consider them worth running?

[13th_Panther]

What is Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms?

I Have seen it in spybot S&D ..... i think . what is it any way.

[naloxan]

I purchased two copies of Vista, Home Premium and Ultimate.
I was not sure which one I wanted, so I put one OS on each.
After a few days I decided Home Premium which one I wanted. But now the system comes up with a dual-boot message at start-up. and I'm still getting the dual-boot screen.

How can I remove this without starting from scratch and losing everything?

Thanks a lot.

[mike_laverick]

Where is the Live Virtualization Event. Is there a link somewhere to hear it and take part - I don't see it myself...

[Edwin Yuen]

Hi, I'm Edwin Yuen and as noted above, myself and others from the Microsoft Virtualization team will be answer questions today in the forum! If you have a Virtualization question, ask away!

[Edwin Yuen]

Quote:

Originally Posted by mike_laverick

Where is the Live Virtualization Event. Is there a link somewhere to hear it and take part - I don't see it myself...

We are going to monitor the forum postings and reply back. If you have a question, go ahead and post away.

[Edwin Yuen]

Quote:

Originally Posted by robertmiles

How can you comment on Hyper-V if you've never seen it before?

Also, could Microsoft add a new program to 64-bit Vista and its successors to provide virtualization of some of the old 16-bit programs that have never been rewritten for 32-bit or 64-bit, but some people, such as those who run BBSs, still consider them worth running?

We actually have several different virtualization solutions. One is Hyper-V, which is a full featured, bare metal Hypervisor (similar to VMware ESX or XenServer). This is available in a free, standalone version and it also comes with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

We also have Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for Vista and Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7, which is a Hypervisor that runs in your current Operating System (Like VMware Workstation and VirtualBox). With this, you can run a 32-bit version of Windows, even older versions, to run those 16-bit programs. This version is also free for download.

[James O'Neill]

Hi I'm James O'Neill virtualization evangelist from Microsoft UK in Reading. I'm going to be on-line answering questions this afternoon, and I blog at James O'Neill's blog

[Edwin Yuen]

Quote:

Originally Posted by 13th_Panther

What is Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms?

I Have seen it in spybot S&D ..... i think . what is it any way.

Hyper-V and other virtualization software like it are designed to basically create virtual machines (computers), running in software, so you can run multiple virtual computers on a single computer.

There is a great, free downloadable eBook, which goes over Virtualization and what Microsoft Virtualization provides.