Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization technology, now supports CentOS Linux
distribution. CentOS is actually community-supported, mainly free software
operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It exists to
provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain
100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution. CentOS stands for
Community ENTerprise Operating System
Which versions are supported?
Hyper-V now supports following CentOS versions:
CentOS 5.2 (x86,x64) CentOS 5.3 (x86,x64) CentOS 5.4 (x86,x64) CentOS 5.5
(x86,x64) CentOS 5.6 (x86,x64)
It is also good to know that Microsoft already supports Hyper-V environments
that include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
What does the support actually mean? Does it mean that I can’t run other
Linux distributions on Hyper-V?
CentOS supported under Hyper-V
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Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), is a component of the
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which enables deployment and
management of Microsoft Virtual PC Windows desktops.
Main capability of MED-V is seamless application integration, so you can ran
Windows 7 incompatible applications as they were installed locally on your
host machine.
Actually, applications are installed in XP virtual machine placed on your
Windows host machine, and then application shortcuts are published to your
Windows host Start menu.
When user clicks on published shortcut, app... (more)
If you are developer and would like to try out library that provides a set of
functions for emulating a file system and a system registry for an
application, ckeck out BoxedApp SDK.
It is a great way for creating virtual files, fake registry entries, keys and
value.
With BoxedApp SDK you have following features:
Create virtual files Create virtual registry keys
API for intercepting functions Embed DLL Embed ActiveX / OCX Launching a
virtual file-based process Using virtual file system by several processes
simultaneously
If you are wondering when to use this SDK see some examples ... (more)
It is really great when someone makes free tool which is useful for
everybody.
One of those tools is new Application Virtualization tool released by Login
Consultants.
Everybody can download tool for free here.
Simple said, with this tool installed you can carry all your virtual
applications, and then import them easily.
Read more about the tool here.
Tagged: aplication virtualization, app-v tool, free tool.
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Today many companies implemented some version of Sharepoint as their internal
document management system and overall document repository system. Sharepoint
is great and easy to use, and companies can really benefit of Sharepoint’s
use, so in some point they decided to use sharepoint site for various kind
of documents. That’s really great, and everything work fine for those kind
of documents if users have Office installed locally. They simply open
Internet explorer, type sharepoint url and click on document they need. Of
course, because everything is installed localy, when user cl... (more)
Domagoj is virtualization consultant, primarily focused on Microsoft Application Virtualization and Hyper-V. After Faculty of Informatics science he joined Microsoft Consulting Services where he participated in many virtualization related projects. Creative and hardworking consultant with extensive skills in Microsoft virtualization, backup and identity management technologies. 
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