Thursday, June 09, 2011

Optional update to the May 2011 Visual Studio/TFS VM's. If you're giving the VM more than 2 GB of RAM or need to put more stuff on the image, check this out...

Brian Keller - Fix to May 2011 Visual Studio 2010 ALM Virtual Machine

"I just published a refreshed version of the May 2011 Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Machine. This is to address a low disk space problem which can occur if you assign a lot of RAM to this new virtual machine. Since increasing the RAM increases the default page file size in Windows, and Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (introduced in the May refresh) takes more disk space than the previous versions did, this was causing some low disk space warnings for people who assigned more than 2GB of RAM.

If you plan on assigning more than 2GB of RAM to your virtual machine, or if you plan on installing additional software to your image, I highly recommend downloading the new version here. Alternatively, you can manually increase the size of your VHD using a VHD resizing tool. After you  ..."

If you're having drive space issues with the VM, get the updated VM's or expand the VHD...

 

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May 2011 VS/TFS 2010 VHD update - If you're playing with TFS, Project Templates, VS 2010, etc, etc, these VHD's are hard to beat...

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