[hemmerling] Virtual PCs, Virtual Servers, Virtualization, Virtual Computers, Computer Hardware Simulation

Related pages:

• Unix 9/12 - Virtualisation with Unix.
• How to configure Oracle VirtualBox for W2k hosts
• How to install and run Windows Virtual PC / Microsoft Virtual PC ).
• Making the Transition from VirtualPC to VirtualBox.
• Software Development with Vagrant & Chef on VirtualBox.

• Xen.Org.
• Citrix Xen Client.
  • You need PCs withIntel vPro chipset and CPU technology.
    • EN.Wikipedia "Intel vPro".
  • Video Citrix Xen Based Client Hypervisor - Local Desktop Virtualization.

• Docker - “An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins”, “Build, Ship and Run Any App, Anywhere”.
• GitHub "docker" - “The open-source application container engine”.
• Docker Hub - “Build, Ship, and Run Any App, Anywhere. Dev-test pipeline automation, 100,000+ free apps, public and private registries”.
• Twitter "Docker, @docker. The Linux container engine".
• Documentation:
  • Read The Docs "Docker" - "Kernel Requirements" - “Linux version 3.8 or above”.
  • Docker Documentation.
    • Docker Documentation "Get Docker for Ubuntu" - Installation step #1.
    • Docker Documentation "Post-installation steps for Linux" - Installation step #2.
      • “Kernel compatibility. Docker will not run correctly if your kernel is older than version 3.10 or if it is missing some modules”.
      • With my Ubuntu 16.04
        • There is no “chkconfig” command available .
        • There is no environment variable “DOCKER_HOST”. Thats ok. “If it is unset, the Docker client is set to connect to the Docker daemon running on the local host”.
    • Docker Documentation "Docker Engine user guide" - Installation step #3.
    • Docker Documentation "Docker Run Reference".
• Docker Hub Registry - “Repositories of Docker Images”.

• Docker "Get Docker".
• Docker "Docker Community Edition" for Windows, Linux,..
• Docker "The Docker Store" - “Find Trusted and Enterprise Ready Containers, Plugins, and Docker Editions”.

• Boerot2docker - Lightweight Linux for Docker, GitHub "boot2docker".
• IBM DeveloperWorks "Installing Boot2Docker For Windows".
• Tutum Blog "How to Use Docker on Windows".

• Docker Docs "Overview of Docker Compose".

• Orchard Blog "Fig: Fast, isolated development environments using Docker".
• GitHub "docker/fig".

• Portainer.
  • “Kubernetes, Docker and Podman Container Management Platform”.
• Portainer Documentation.
  • Portainer Documentation "Install Portainer CE with Docker on Linux".
• Docker Hub "portainer/portainer" - “This repository is deprecated. Starting from January 2022, the latest tag of this repository will point to Portainer CE 2.X. Please use portainer/portainer-ce instead”.
• Docker Hub "portainer/portainer-ce".

• The community Docker Cloud - “Share images, automate workflows”.
• The free online service Sloppy.io - “DOCKER HOSTING CLOUD. Container And Microservices The DevOps Way”, “Hassle-free Docker Hosting for Devs”.

• OpenShift Origin.
  • “The Open Source Container Application Platform”.
  • “Origin is the upstream community project that powers OpenShift. Built around a core of Docker container packaging and Kubernetes container cluster management, Origin is also augmented by application lifecycle management functionality and DevOps tooling. Origin provides a complete open source container application platform”-
  • EN.Wikipedia "OpenShift" - “A computer software product from Red Hat for container-based software deployment and management”.

• GitHub "datenteiler/powersuse" - Script “Build Docker image”.
• Docker Cloud "datenteiler" - By the cloud, you may build docker images online.
• Docker Hub "datenteiler".
  • Docker Hub "datenteiler/powersuse".
  • You may upload generated Docker images, but you can´t generate or modify any.
  • Especially you can´t transfer images built in the Docker-Cloud to the Docker-Hub.

• Windows Pro. Windows, Virtualisierung und Cloud für Profis "Docker-Container unter Windows 10 installieren".
  • PowerShell, in Administration mode
    1. “Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All”.
    2. “Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Containers -All”.
  • Docker Docs "Download Docker for Windows".
• On Windows, Docker container are stored at “C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks”, e.g. “C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks\MobyLinuxVM.vhdx”

• Docker Docs "Install Docker Toolbox on Windows" - Download offer & installation instructions.
• Docker Docs "Docker Toolbox" - “Legacy desktop solution. Docker Toolbox is for older Mac and Windows systems that do not meet the requirements of Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows”.
• GitHub "Docker Toolbox".
• Error message Google - Search for "docker repository name must be lowercase".

• Core OS "Getting Started with docker".
• Prakhar Srivastav "Docker for Beginners" ( docker-curriculum.com ).
• Uli Middelberg.
  • GitHub "umiddelb/armhf" - “Installing, running, using docker on armhf (ARMv7) devices”.
  • Meetup "Hamburg Internet of Things (IoT) User Group (Hamburg)", Event "Docker für ARM-basierte IoT-Devices", 2015-05-18.
• EN.Wikipedia "Docker (software)", DE.Wikipedia "Docker (Software)".

• See Unix 9/12 - Virtualisation with Unix.

• See Software Development with Vagrant & Chef on VirtualBox.

• QEMU - “A generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer”.
  • “Full-system emulation. Run operating systems for any machine, on any supported architecture”.
  • “User-mode emulation. Run programs for another Linux/BSD target, on any supported architecture”.
  • “Virtualization. Run KVM and Xen virtual machines with near native performance”.

• Syslab.io "Singularity. The container runtime that combines high performance and ease of use".
  • Syslab.io "Documentation & Examples. DOCUMENTATION FOR OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS CAN BE FOUND BELOW".
  • Syslab.io "Singularity User Guide".
    • Syslab.io "Singularity User Guide - Singularity and Docker".
• GitHub "sylabs /singularity" - “SingularityCE is the Community Edition of Singularity, an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure”.
• EN.Wikipedia "Singularity (software)", DE.Wikipedia "Singularity (Software)".

• VMWare.
• VMware academic store.

• The free VMware vSphere Hypervisor™ (ESXi).

• You can either install VMware Server or VMware Player on a host operating system, not both ( see Ubuntu Forums ) !
• VMWare for Linux, Windows.
• VMware Customer Connect "Downloads"#.
• VMware Server, free edition.
  • Anomaly with VMware Server V2.01: On a host ( with little 512 MB Ram, W2k-Pro ), it is necessary to start the service “VMware Server Host Agent”, manually.
  • Anomaly with VMware Server V2.01: On a host ( W2k-Server ), after first reboot , after Windows Login, W2k-Server crashes with bluescreen...
• VMware Workstation Player, free edition.
  • Be aware: For commercial use of the “free” edition of VMware Player, you need a commercial license .
• VMware Converter, free edition.
• About VMware Remote Console by VMware.
• Using the VMware Remote Console by VMware.
• Setting a MIME Type to Launch the VMware Remote Console.
• VMware Compatibility Guide.
• Support.
  • VMware 2.5.5 Player has no USB support.
  • VMware, Inc. "VMware Workstation 5.5. Using USB Devices in a Virtual Machine".
  • If your virtual computer supports USB, you may access a USB-2-Ethernet adapter connected to your physical computer, and so you may access a totally different ( sub- ) network by your virtual computer, than that of your physical computer.

• VMware "Download VMware Workstation Player", for Win-64bit and Linux-64bit only.

• VMWare "Download VMware Workstation Player".
  • VMware Player for Win-32bit and Win-64bit 6.07 ( 2015-07-02 ), 5.04, 4.0.6, 3.16.
  • VMware Player for Linux-32bit and Linux-64bit 5.04, 4.0.6, 3.16 for Linux-32bit.

• Neowin "VMware Workstation Player 12.5.6".

• 2022-09.
  • I had to pass my full business address & business address details, to download “VMware Workstation Player” .
  • “Refresh your session. Your session will expire in XX minutes” .
• VMware Communities "Problem importing Windows XP - Mode on VMWare - Player 4.0".
  • Error message, when trying to import the “Windows XP - Mode VM” into VMWare Player: “This feature of VMware Player requires the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone product”.
  • Solution You must install the “VMware vCenter Converter Standalone” V5.01. An expert suggested to select “Client-Server Installation (advanced)”.
• Hardware compability:
  • StackOverflow "StackExchange - Superuser "What is the lastest working version of VMWare Player on Windows 7 32 bits?" - “They further clarify that VM Player Plus 6 is the last version to support a 32-bit OS (and CPU)”.
  • EN.Wikipedia "VMware Workstation Player".
    • “7.0 Support for 32-bit host operating system was discontinued”.
    • “14.0 Support for pre-2010 CPUs dropped”.
    • Thats why “VMWare Player” versions 14, 15, 16 deny installation on my Leovo Win10Pro PC with CPU “Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E8400” by the error message “Unsupported CPU detected” .

• The free virtual machine VMLite Corporation "VMLite" for WinXP.

• Microsoft Evalcenter " Hyper-V Server 2012 R2" - “Evaluation Unlimited”, “Hyper-V Server is a dedicated stand-alone product that contains the hypervisor, Windows Server driver model, virtualization capabilities, and supporting components such as failover clustering, but does not contain the robust set of features and roles as the Windows Server operating system. As a result, Hyper-V Server produces a small footprint and requires minimal overhead. Organizations consolidating servers where no new Windows Server licenses are required or where the servers being consolidated are running an alternative OS may want to consider Hyper-V Server”.

• Hyper-V Server is shipped without the typical GUI known as “Windows GUI”, but is dedicated for commandline operation.
• Microsoft TechNet "Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 and Hyper-V Server 2012".

• Microsoft TechNet "Client Hyper-V".
• Paul Thurrott's Supersite for WINDOWS "Windows 8 Tip: Virtualize with Hyper-V", 2012-06-24.
• Microsoft MSDN, Blog "Building Windows", Article "Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8", 2011-09-07.
• EN.Wikipedia "Hyper-V", DE.Wikipedia "Hyper-V" - “Hyper-V Server: It is a freeware edition of Windows Server with limited functionality and Hyper-V component”.

• MSDN Blogs, knom's developer corner "Windows 7 – VHD Boot – Setup Guideline".
  • “The .VHD booted OS needs to be Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or later”.
• WindowsBlog.at, Ein Blog rund um Microsoft Windows, WIndows Live und was sonst noch anfällt "Windows 7: Natives Booten von VHD".
• Innovative Technology Weblog, Innovative Technology presented by Innovative People "Native VHD in Windows 7".

• The free Windows Virtual PC.
• Windows VirtualPC 2007.
• Microsoft Download Center: Microsoft VirtualPC 2007 SP1 for WinXP, Vista. Inofficial patch for W2k is available.
• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 - Enterprise Edition for WinXP, Vista.
• Download Windows XP Mode with Virtual PC - Download just works on computers running Win7 only.
• Microsoft® Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 for Win2008.

• Simulation target: PIII CPU, BX motherboard, Trio 32/64 graphics card.
• Windows Virtual PC 2007 just runs on WinXP, Vista ( and on W2k after patching ).
• Windows Virtual PC 2009 once just run exclusively on systems running Win7 and which provide hardware-assisted virtualisation by the CPU. This is now obsolete by a fix. Without the fix, there might be the error message

“Windows Virtual PC. Cannot start Windows Virtual PC Host Process. Check the System event log for more details. Windows Virtual PC requires hardware-assisted virtualization. There is no hardware-assisted virtualization support in the system”

• Supported Windows guests:
  • Windows Virtual PC 2007 on W2k and WinXP supplies “Virtual PC Integration Components” for Win98SE, W2k, WinXP, Vista, Win7.
  • Windows Virtual PC Mode on Win7 supplies “Virtual PC Integration Components” for WinXP-SP3, Vista, Win7.

• Netzwelt "Windows Virtual PC 2009 - Bringt die Software jedes Betriebssystem unter Windows zum Laufen?", 2010-09-14 - “Wird Virtual PC 2009 unter Windows 7 installiert, werden nun auch USB Schnittstellen erkannt. Wie man also durchaus feststellen kann”.
• Microsoft.
  • Microsoft TechNet Blogs - Windows Virtual PC "Tip: Using the keyboard to access useful functionality in Windows Virtual PC" - List of keyboard shortcuts . “CTRL+ALT+Left Arrow - Release the mouse from the virtual machine’s (VM) window (required only when the integration features are not installed or are disabled)”.
  • Microsoft Virtual Server TechNet - Virtualisierungs-Szenarien "Microsoft Virtualisierung – die wichtigsten Szenarien".
  • Microsoft TechNet - Virtualization Scenario Hub "Getting Business Done With Virtualization".
    • Microsoft Virtual Server TechCenter "Microsoft Virtual Server. Featured Resources".
• Blog Tuning DOS inside of Virtual PC by Virtual PC Guy.
• Tom's Hardware "How To: Setup XP-Mode on Win 7 Basic, Premium", 2010-04-19.
• EN.Wikipedia "Windows Virtual PC", DE.Wikipedia "Windows Virtual PC".

• Microsoft Download Center "Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 Client UI Application" - Latest free download for Win7Pro, Win8Pro, Win8.1Pro ?!
• SourceForge "regshot", SourceForge "regshot" - The “alternative” if you don´t use App-V technology to record a state difference of Windows, by a snapshot.

• Blog Microsoft TechNet "The Official Microsoft App-V Team Blog".
  • Microsoft TechNet "The Official Microsoft App-V Team Blog" - "Microsoft App-V 5.1 and MDOP 2015 now available for download", 2015-08-18.
• Microsoft Windows IT Pro Center "About App-V 5.1".
• Microsoft Windows IT Pro Center "Application Virtualization (App-V) for Windows 10 overview".
• MSIX Blog
  • MSIX Blog "MSIX Packaging Tool (Preview) is now available from the Microsoft Store".
• Microsoft TechNet "M.A.D. Blog – Modern Application Deployment. Blog about deploying Apps in a modern Way".
  • Microsoft TechNet "M.A.D. Blog – Modern Application Deployment" - "MSIX – The MSIX Packaging Tool (Preview) available for Windows 10 insiders".
• Microsoft TechNet Forum "What is app-v streaming? How it can be achieved ? What is needed in an organization to go with appv streaming?".

• Experts told me about App-V streaming: The final result of a single installation of a Windows software application is recorded - including all changes in Windows Registry, of public files ect - and provided for simple installation.
• Experts told me about the platform support:
  • As of 2018-09, the “App-V” client may be installed on for Win7Pro, Win8Pro/8.1Pro, but on on Win10Pro ( anymore ).
  • On Win10-Enterprise & Win10-Education however, “App-V” is a standard os feature.
• Experts told me, that the MSIX installation format supports App-V applications .
• Experts told me, that Windows-Education may just install Windows Store Apps, but it is shippted with App-V. By App-V, might install any other software, as no executable installer ( “SETUP.EXE” ) is executed on the target system.
• Experts told me, that just components like “VC++ Runtime” are visibly installed on the target system. Most components shipped with an App-V installation are just visible for the App-V sandbox, by running the App-V application.
• EN.Wikipedia "Microsoft App-V", DE.Wikipedia "Microsoft Application Virtualization".

• Wine - See 3D Graphics Frameworks.

• Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project, Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project - free open source x86 virtual machine.
• Promox VE - “Liberate your servers and move to an Open Virtualization Platform - Go Open Source!”.
• DOSBox.
  • EN.Wikipedia "DOSBox".
  • Experts told me how to adjust the emulation speed: “In the conf file look for cycles to control speed. Try cycles=fixed 5000, cycles=5000”.
• DOSEMU, Sourceforge "DOSEMU for Linux", Sourceforge "DOSEMU for Linux".
  • EN.Wikipedia "DOSEMU".
• The generic OpenSource emulator QEMU may emulate x86 and Android devices too . It is shipped with the Yocto project .
  • QEMU Wiki.
  • EN.Wikipedia "QEMU", DE.Wikipedia "QEMU".

• The free backup tool Veeam Backup Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-V.

• Single-root IOV (SR-IOV).
  • Intel Corporation - Network Connectivity "FAQs: Using SR-IOV with Intel Ethernet Server Adapters".

• EN.wikipedia.org "Microsoft App-V", DE.wikipedia.org "Microsoft Application Virtualization".
• Microsoft TechNet "Application Virtualization".

• Sandboxie.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Sandboxie", DE.Wikipedia "Sandboxie".

• VMWare vs. VirtualPC:
  • With VMWare, on 64bit Windows host computers and 32bit Windows targets running in the emulator using special 32-bit drivers, the host operating system doesn't need special 64 bit drivers for some special devices, e.g. for USB communications. A generic driver is sufficient on the 64-bit host. The communication flow is simply passed from the target to the host .
  • With VirtualPC, on 64bit Windows host computers and 32bit Windows targets running in the emulator using special 32-bit drivers, the host operating system needs extra 64 bit drivers, e.g. for USB communications just works if you have both an equivalent special driver on the target and the host .

• Book Nicholas Dille, Marc Grote, Nils Kaczenski, Jan Kappen: "Microsoft Hyper-V und System Center : das Handbuch für Administratoren", 2014.
• The free PDF book ATLANTIS "Ultimate Desktop Virtualization and Application Remoting Best Practices". The tips are in short-message style, i.e. like Twitter or SMS messages

• [Hemmerling] How to install and run Windows Virtual PC / Microsoft Virtual PC.
• [Hemmerling] How to patch Oracle VirtualBox for W2k hosts.
• HowToGeek "How To Convert Virtual Machines Between VirtualBox and VMware".
• CHIP Forum - CHIP Online / Betriebssysteme / Windows 7 / [GELÖST] XP Mode unter Windows 7 Professional (zB Home Premium) - ES GEHT!".
• Hyper-V Community - Hyper-V was denn sonst?.
  • Hyper-V Community - Hyper-V was denn sonst? "Hyper-V Community Treffen am 16.07.2014 in Hannover", 2014-07-16.
• QEMU on Windows - free third-party tool for VMware.
• VMware Player Guide by Aaron Rogers.
• EasyVMX - “Create virtual machines for VMware Player”.
• Blog How install VMware tools with VMware player.
• Blog What’s the Login User Name and Password for VMWare Server 2.0? by “Tip and Trick”.
• Wikipedia.
  • EN.Wikipedia "x86 virtualization" - list of CPUs which support virtualization.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Virtual machine", DE.Wikipedia "Virtuelle Maschine".
  • DE.Wikipedia "Intel Virtualization Technology".
  • DE.Wikipedia "AMD Virtualization".
• Gilles Vollant Software "WinImage" for Windows.
  • EN.Wikipedia "WinImage" - “creating, reading and editing disk images and also opening VMware and Microsoft Virtual PC hard disk images”.
• The “Windows Task Manager” may be called by the key combination “CTRL”+“ALT”+“ENDE” ( on German keyboard ).

• Google Groups "comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine".
• Google Groups "microsoft.public.virtualpc", Google Groups "microsoft.public.de.virtualpc".
• VMLite Forums.
• VMware Communities - forum.
• VMware Forum — Inoffizielles, unabhängiges deutsches VMware-Forum.
• End user forums for VirtualBox - forum.
• Thin Client and Virtual Machines on EduGeek - forum.

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