Information and announcements from Program Managers, Product Managers, Developers and Testers in the Microsoft Virtualization team.
Sometimes when things go wrong in my environment, I don’t want to have to clean it all up — I just want to go back in time to when everything was working. But remembering to maintain good recovery points isn’t easy. Now we’re making it so that you can always roll back your virtual machine to a recent good state if you… Read more
A practical walkthrough, in six steps This basic example demonstrates NGINX and swarm mode in action, to provide the foundation for you to apply these concepts to your own configurations. This document walks through several steps for setting up a containerized NGINX server and using it to load balance traffic across a swarm cluster. For… Read more
Based on customer and partner feedback, we are happy to announce the Windows networking team released a native overlay network driver for Windows Server 2016 to enable admins to create a Docker Swarm cluster spanning multiple Windows Server and Linux container hosts without worrying about configuring the underlying network fabric. Windows Server containers and those with… Read more
Microsoft just released the Windows 10 Creators Update. Which means Hyper-V improvements! New and improved features in Creators Update: Quick Create Checkpoint and Save for nested Hyper-V Dynamic resize for VM Connect Zoom for VM Connect Networking improvements (NAT) Developer-centric memory management Keep reading for more details. Also, if you want to try new Hyper-V… Read more
Linux Integration Services has been update to version 4.1.3-2 and is available from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51612 This is a minor update to correct the RPMs for a kernel ABI change in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Oracle Linux’s Red Hat Compatible Kernel version 7.3. Version 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7 of the kernel was sufficiently different for symbol conflicts to… Read more
We love hearing from you. So what’s the best way to give us feedback? The best way to report an issue or give a quick suggestion is the Feedback Hub on Windows 10 (Windows key + F to open it quickly). The feedback hub lets the product team see all of your feedback in one… Read more
Windows 10 Insiders can now take advantage of overlay networking and Docker swarm mode to manage containerized applications in both single-host and clustering scenarios. Containers are a rapidly growing technology, and as they evolve so must the technologies that support them as members of a broader collection of compute, storage and networking infrastructure components. For… Read more
I was playing with Windows 10’s on screen keyboard and discovered the emoticons section. Specifically, I found this awesome set of cat emojis. WindowsKitty definitely needed to be a VM Name. It even has a laptop! Luckily, it turns out, the Quick Create option we added recently handles emoji beautifully. Not only does the VM name look… Read more
When you connect to a VM with Virtual Machine Connection in enhanced session mode, you’re prompted to choose some settings for display and local resources. The main thing that changes between sessions is usually display configuration. But since you can now resize after connecting starting in the latest Insider build, you might not want to see this page each… Read more
Introduction Many Hyper-V customers have run into new challenges when trying to use constrained delegation with Kerberos to Live Migrate VMs in Windows Server 2016. When attempting to migrate, they would see errors with messages like “no credentials are available in the security package,” or “the Virtual Machine Management Service failed to authenticate the connection… Read more
