HyperV_Mon 1.7 Released

I added an updated version, Version 1.7, of HyperV_Mon today.

HyperV_Mon is a free monitoring tool for use with Microsoft Hyper-V. It provides a graphical display of the main performance indexes for both the VMs and the physical host. This includes CPU, Memory, Paging, as well as File and Network I/O traffic.

More importantly, it displays CPU “virtualization overhead” that …

OSD Illustrated Updated

Peter gave me a “heads-up” on a couple of new optional things in the OSD that I had not been aware of. These are now added to the OSD Illustrated.  Both are optional to support odd cases for 64-bit operating systems.  Normally you don’t need these new parameters, even if you are running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS, …

The Case of App-V 4.6 Duplicate Package GUIDs

When the App-V sequencer creates a GUID for the package that needs to be unique.  If somehow two packages get the same GUID, you will run into an error at deployment and need to re-sequence.

In older releases, people would run into this issue if they took a VM snapshot with the sequencer up and running.  Typically, they create the …