Day: 19 March 2010

Microsoft has announced Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX which directly affects their desktop virt platform. Dynamic memory allows users to adjust the memory of a guest virtual machine on demand. IT administrators will thus be able to pool all the memory available on a physical host and dynamically distribute it to virtual machines running on that…

Microsoft will be removing the hardware virtualisation extensions requirement with the next update of XP mode. The updates are available here: win 7 32-bit win 7 64-bit Intel’s mechanism is know as VT-x while AMD’s is called AMD-V. There are pros and cons with this change: con – hardware virt extensions allow a CPU to…