It appears VSMT requires Win2003 Enterprise Edition as the underlying
platform when running the utility to migrate physical to virtual
machines.
Our problem:  We do not have Enterprise edition on any of our servers.

i have a Virtual Server 2005 on a W2k3 Host running.
four Virutal Machines with w2k3 ar hosted.
my question i: how can i backup the running virtual machines in the best
way?

Among the hard disk config options (expanding virtual, fixed virtual, etc) is
an option to create a "linked" hard disk.  Dropdown options include the hard
drives that are currently mounted on the system.
However, when I create one of these linked disks and try to apply it to a VM,

Could anyone tell me if there's anyway to get the resolution of a VM up to
1280x1024 at 32 bit colour? We can only manage 32 bit colour at a resolution
of only 1152x864.
I have Virtual Machine Additions installed, but is there anyway to get a

I'm trying to migrate a physical server using VSMT. Each time I run the
server_DeployVM.cmd, the process stops at the boot.ini copy step with the
following error:
ADS Controller did not recognize the variable Device.User.vVMScriptPath.

I have a virtual machine that was created that has a Dynamic disk, it states
in the settings that the max size is 16GB and is currently expanded to 7.6GB,
but it seems to now only have about 1.71 GB left which makes it around only
10GB

you excuse to me, I have watched here
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/virtualserver/2005/proddocs/vs_depl
oy_reqs.mspx
in order to find Guest operating system requirements but
i don't see Win98, Win Me, Liunx, ... why ??

I've finally gotten around to documenting the installation of VSDM,
including screen shots. Please see my blog for details (URL in my .sig).
(follow-ups to microsoft.public.virtualserver)

Has anyone ever used virtual servers to migrate physical servers to virtual
servers?  We are in a hardware crunch, and this seems to be the only way for
me to start migrating our physical servers to virtuals.  Basically, use our
existing physical DHCP server, loading 2003 ...

I am at the point where I am running the Source_DeployVM.cmd script. I
keep getting "No reply from server" on the VM during the RIS Disk boot.
I have already applied the 875533 hotfix to ADS. The machine running
ADS is running Windows 2003 SP1. The VM's OS will be NT 4 SP6a. I can

When I go to the Virtual Hard Disk Properties page, it does not show a link
for "Add Disk" as the documentation suggests.
I have successfully created a new virtual hard disk, but I don't see how to
add it to my server.

I understand that it is possible to create a 2-node cluster using Virtual
Server, but is it possible to have each node installed onto a serarate
physical box? This would require a shared disk system, but could this be
achieved by storing a .vhd on an iSCSI target or a FC shared ...

I have VS2005 running on Win2K3 Server and one virtual machine, but the
checkbox to "Run virtual machine under the following user account" is
disabled.  The only two items enabled on the "General Properties" page are
"Virtual machine name" and "Action when virtual server stops".

OK, so I worked my way 90% through getting the VSMT up and running.  I'm
trying to migrate a Dell PowerEdge 2400.  I had to use the rbfg boot floppy,
since the NIC doesn't support PXE, but that seemed to work fine.  ADS is
happy, and I was even able to grab an image of the server ...

I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time now and I'm not sure
what to make of it.
I'll have two virtual NIC's: External and Internal
Let's say I shutdown the VM, remove the External NIC from the config and