Miscelaneous
Today I received the confirmation email from the latin american MVP lead. Thank you Microsoft for the award!!!
I also would like to give special thanks to the VSX Team.
Thanks,
Pablo
I am not used to write personal posts but this time it is the happiest day of my life.
On Saturday 12/15/07 at 2:57 AM Felipe, our first son, was born with 3.257 kg. Of course I can only say that he is cute, beautiful, perfect and so many other adjectives. :)
Some pictures:
Many thanks to my wife for this precious gift.
Pablo
Have you ever wanted to host more than one command prompt, well the answer is Console.
The current version is 2.0 and supports multiple tabs, transparency and other customizations.
I have got the Visual Studio command prompt, Winfx Command Prompt and PowerShell configured on my new Console.
This is a snippet of the configuration file:
<
tabs
>
<
tab
title
="VS.NET 2005">
<
console
shell
="cmd /k C:\PROGRA~1\MID05A~1\VC\vcvarsall.bat"init_dir="C:\"/>
</
tab
>
<
tab
title
="PowerShell">
<
console
shell
="C:\Program Files\Windows PowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"init_dir="C:\"/>
</
tab
>
<
tab
title
="WinFX SDK">
<
console
shell
="cmd /E:ON /V:ON /T:0E /K C:\PROGRA~1\MI2578~1\Windows\v6.0\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd"init_dir="C:\"/>
</
tab
>
<
tab
title
="cmd">
<
console
shell
="cmd.exe"init_dir="C:\"/>
</
tab
>
</
tabs
>
Pablo
It is a fact that VmWare 5.5 supports virtual pc hardisks directly (you can open a vpc hardisk without importing it) .
But in practice when you try to open a vpc from VmWare you are going to find that in some cases this doesn't work (VmWare throws an error message).
So the next step is try to import the vpc using the Virtual Machine Importer, but in the same cases this doesn't work also and the following error is logged:
TranslateError: now err -2147213303: VMware Virtual Machine Importer has encountered an internal error: A required archive (driver.cab) could not be found in the source OS.
After some research I found the resolution for this problem:
- Find another host or guest computer running the same operating system and service packs that the one you want to open or import.
- Copy the "%windir%\Driver Cache" directory into the same location on the vpc image.
- Shut down the VPC
- Open or Import the vpc image
Pablo
Some time ago I was reading about Continuous Integration and I found this product:
http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/orb/orborder.html It Rocks!!!!!
Here you have a post about the Ambient Orb CruiseControl.NET configuration:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/articles/169058.aspx
Pablo
If you use Virtual PC 2004 frequently, you are going to notice that the virtual hard disks (.VHD) files growth a lot, as files are saved within the VPC environment, because dynamic VHDs will expand to meet the need of space.
But the VHD do not return the space to the host hard drive once you clean space on it.
For doing so you need to do a set of manual steps:
Steps on the Host OS:
- Empty the recycle bin on the drive where the VHD is located
- If the 'hiberfil.sys' file is located in the same drive that the VHD, then disable hibernation
- Defragment the drive where the VHD is located
Steps on the Virtual Machine OS:
- Shut down the VPC (do not save state)
- Install VPC SP1
- Restart the VPC once SP1 is applied
- Log on as an Administrator
- Remove the paging file Clear the temp directory
Defragment the drive Zero the free space on the disk:
- Capture Virtual Disk Precompactor image, its located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual PC\Virtual Machine Additions\Virtual Disk Precompactor.iso
- Execute Precompact.exe located on the drive mounted
- Shut down the VPC (do not save state)
Compress the virtual hard disk:
- Open Virtual PC Console go to File, Virtual Disk Wizard
- Select Edit an existing virtual disk
- Browse to the location and file name of the VHD file
- Ensure that the Compact option is selected
- On the Virtual Hard Disk Compaction page, select Replacing the original file
- Once the disk is compacted, restart the VPC
- Add the paging file again
Pablo
