Episode 226 – The Virtual PC Guy Ben Armstrong talks virtualization and PowerShell

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ben Armstrong, the Virtual PC Guy!

News

• PowerShell version 4.0?

• MVP Don Jones will be speaking May 14th at the Mississippi PowerShell User Group

• Don Jones has released “The Big Book of PowerShell Gotchas” for free

• IT Pro Camp comes to Jacksonville, FL on June 15th

• PowerGUI gets PowerShell 3.0 support

• Presentation downloads from the PowerShell Summit

• PowerShell Summit 2013 Thank you video

Interview

Guests – Ben Armstrong

Links

• Virtual PC Guy Blog

• http://twitter.com/VirtualPCGuy

Chatroom Buzz

<11MikeFRobbins> Don Jones is speaking for the Mississippi PowerShell User Group on May 14th:http://mspsug.com/2013/04/23/up-next-powershell-mvp-don-jones/

<13JasonMArcher> at the summit, the Jason Cabal had its first meeting

<JonWalz> Jason cabal?

<JonWalz> I bet there is a good story behind that one

<5JHofferle> Yeah…if I ever forgot anyone’s name…I just called them Jason and had a 40% chance of being right.

<14gpduck> lol 10% of the attendees were named jason

<11MikeFRobbins> I think it was more like 35% of the attendees were named Jason

<8ericcourville> ## how do I convince my server admins to even look at hyper-v when they are so married to vmware

<4Vern_Anderson> ## has he ever played with Xen or KVM open sourced Hypervisors?

<4Vern_Anderson> 22http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_RDMA_Protocol

<11MikeFRobbins> Check out the uptime in this screenshot (on this production Hyper-V server): 22http://mikefrobbins.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/hyperv-uptime-162.jpg

 

The Question –

• Superhero: Daredevil

Resources

• How to use PowerShell to check for SLAT for Windows 8 Hyper-V