After converting a physical machine to a virtual machine, you need to remove the “old” hardware. This hardware is not shown in the device manager by default. To fix this you can follow the following articles located at Microsoft KB article 241257 or269155. Or just look at the steps below. Abstract: Device Manager displays only non-Plug and…
KVM provides a Virtio interface for the virtual hard disk and NIC. To use them in a Windows guest VM, the drivers from Fedora (you only need the ISO file) must first be installed into Windows. To install them in a Windows guest VM, it must also be started with these interfaces so that Windows can detect…
If you’re trying to decide if virtualization is right for your organization, whether from an economic or technological standpoint, consider these reasons for taking the virtualization plunge: It saves money: Virtualization reduces the number of servers you have to run, which means savings on hardware costs and also on the total amount of energy needed to…
Virtual Private Servers employ a technology known as virtualization: a technique whereby a physical server is divided into virtual divisions (sometimes called “containers” or “virtual environments”), which make it appear as if your site is running on a dedicated server. Let’s take a closer look at the main players in the virtualization game, along with their…
There are three ways to create virtual servers: full virtualization, para-virtualization and OS-level virtualization. They all share a few common traits. The physical server is called the host. The virtual servers are called guests. The virtual servers behave like physical machines. Each system uses a different approach to allocate physical server resources to virtual server needs. Full virtualization uses a special…