Episode 226 – The Virtual PC Guy Ben Armstrong talks virtualization and PowerShell
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ben Armstrong, the Virtual PC Guy!
News
[PowerShell version 4.0?](http://withinwindows.com/within-windows/2013/4/7/windows-81-powershell-40-and-new-cmdlets?utm_source=feedly)
MVP Don Jones will be speaking May 14th at the [Mississippi PowerShell User Group](http://mspsug.com/2013/04/23/up-next-powershell-mvp-don-jones/)
Don Jones has released ["The Big Book of PowerShell Gotchas"](https://powershell.org/books/the-big-book-of-powershell-gotchas-free/) for free
[IT Pro Camp comes to Jacksonville, FL on June 15th](http://itprocamp.com/jacksonville/jacksonville-it-pro-camp/)
[PowerGUI gets PowerShell 3.0 support](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/04/10/powergui-script-editor-gets-full-support-for-powershell-3-0/)
[Presentation downloads from the PowerShell Summit](https://powershell.org/2013/04/22/summit-downloads/)
PowerShell Summit 2013 [Thank you video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRdaMoO6UWE&feature=youtu.be)
Interview
Guests - Ben Armstrong
Links
[Virtual PC Guy Blog](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/)
[http://twitter.com/VirtualPCGuy](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
Jason cabal?
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
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