Continuing to show support for the idea of containers, Microsoft today released Hyper-V containers to go along with its previously announced Windows Server containers. The difference between them is ...

In a story I wrote for Computerworld in January, which was a review of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, I mentioned Windows Server’s new support for Hyper-V containers that had been added to ...

When you start a Virtual Machine in Hyper-V, its state shows “Starting (x%),” where the x% shows the loading percentage. When the virtual machine is loaded 100%, Hyper-V launches that operating system ...

After a restore operation, Hyper-V often cannot start the VM due to missing or mismatched virtual hardware references, broken file permissions, or corrupted configuration data. The restored VM might ...

Microsoft last year came forward and declared multiple times that it understands the appeal of building and running applications in containers, an increasingly trendy low-level technology. Today, ...

Containers have been all the rage in the open source world for a number of years, but noticeably absent from Windows until now. In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft released its own container ...