I have read through a bunch of white papers but am having troubles
determining a couple things:
Should the host be a member of the local domain or in it's own workgroup?
Should/can the host be a DC or other type of server or is it best to leave

I want to backup the entire image of a virtual machine ideally without taking
the virtual machine offline. Is there a solution to do this, maybe volume
shadow copy?

I have the following setup.
Win 2003 Enterprise edition, VS 2005, ADS and VSMT installed on the same
server.
DHCP are running on a separate server.

I seem to be getting a very high level of fragmentation on my Virtual Server
Host.  Guests are configured to use dynamicly sizing disks which could be
causing more of this.  Are there any known issues with defragmenting VM
images?  Are there any recommendations for decreasing the ...

   Is there a way to run Windows 2000 as host for Virtual Server 2005. If so, what limitations imply this and could they be overcome?

Our support group needs to be able to connect to client networks using a
variety of VPN software (Cisco, SecuRemote, and Sidewinder for example). We
are evaluating Virtual Server as a possible solution.
Is it possible to setup one VM for each VPN client and then have our users

I successfully created the two node cluster in VS2005.  How ever I was
wondering if it is possible to have undo disks for the two nodes?  I am only
interested in having undo disks for the Primary channels for the two nodes
and not the quorum disk (SCSI).  

am about to install Virtual Server 2005 on both an XP pro and Server 2003
platform.  Is there a paper discussing either installation?  Want to make
sure I don't hit any snags.

In a two node workgroup, The VS admin returns Access Denied security error
when the VS path is changed to \\server\sharename\     The signon is
administrator or the Administrators group.    The share security is fine and
is visable and accessible everywhare except via the Virtual ...

I would like to know if anyone has successfully configured Virtual Server and
SurfControl. I tried it, but since it binds to the virtual nic, it does not
see any traffic. Any help would be greatfully appreicated!

I'm using VS2005, with four virtual machines, and having a problem getting a
span port to work with one of the virtual machines.
The host machine can use the span port, but the virtual machines do not see
the data flowing across it.

I am trying to run virtual server on an IBM Blade Center server and having
trouble getting the virtual server to see other devices on the network.  
Communication between the host server and virtual works. The NIC is
configured for external communcation but we are unable ping ...

We have 3 Virtual Servers with Windows 2000 SP4 installed as the Guest OS.  
The physical vhd file size is 40 - 60 GB.  The problem is that the virtual
servers are configured with dynamic disks with a maximum size of 20GB, and
when we run disk management on the Guest systems it ...

I have been using a Virtual Image on my work desktop for about a month.
They gave me a new laptop (Dell Lat. D610, 2GHz Centrino, 2GB RAM,
80GBHD 5400rpm, wi-fi802.11g, bluetooth, WinXP SP2) and now the same
Virtual Machine is occassionally locking up.

I am having a problem with the Virtual Server additions ISO.
The Guest OS is Windows 95, when the ISO is mounted, only the DOS and OS2
directory has files located inside.  The Windows directory does not display
any files and gives a error similar to "No files located in this ...