On Microsoft's site, the kb article regarding decreased performance with
win2003 and sp1 states:
"Microsoft expects to make this update publicly available by the end of June
2005. "

Does anyone notice any time drifts in their guest OS?
I've read the paper on implementing DC's as a guest VM and the time
drift got so bad that i've actually enabled host synchronization to fix
the problem. I'm talking about an hour drift or so.

I'm administering a Win2K3 Server running Virtual Server 2005. The host
server belongs to a enterprise AD in which I only have user privilieges.
When checking the requirements for VSMT,  I found out that I need to have
ADS installed. My question then is, can a locally installed ADS ...

I can't find anywhere in the docs that it is, but it certainly seems like it
should be. I've got a junker laptop running as an Exchange 5.5 Resource
Delegate and I would like to put it back in the trash and run the Delegate
as a virtual machine.

Is anybody aware of a memory leak of 8 bytes in the Save method of
IVMVirtualMachine?
Thanks,
Mira

I need some advice on the best configuration for virtual machines.
I am updating my build process and was wondering if any of the following is
not advisable on a vm
1. Use Fixed size hard disks

I have written a VBS script that provisions and configures vitual machine on
a virtual server platform. The problem is that for each of the provisioned
VM's, the Virtual machine additions checkbox is greyed out, disallowing these
to be applied manually once an OS is installed.

I use Virtual Server for my development environment, with 8-10 servers
running on a dual Xeon 3.6 Ghz with 6 GB of RAM (It's a bit low for that
many virtual servers, but speed isn't essential for that environment).
The environment isn't used at all during night, so at 22:00, I ...

I do understand that Microsoft is not officially supporting Exchange
2003 in VM.  But is anyone using this in production?  If, so with how
many email users?
I'm thinking of running Exchange 2003 on Win Server 2003 (non-SP1) as a

I currently use BlackICE Defender for server on my web servers but I haven't
been able to make it work successfully in VMs.  Is anyone out there using IDS
(Intrusion Detection Software) on VMs?  If so which one do you recomend?
I want to consolidate these servers but IDS is ...

Does anyone know when Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1 will be released?  I
am currently using the beta version in Production but need to know when the
full version will be released.

Fist off, I'm using the 120-day TRIAL VS2003 Enterprise, which is NOT
patchable with the VS2005 SP1 beta.
Host:  Win2003 Std. SP1 running on a dual-core 3GHz box with 2GB RAM
and a single 200GB SATA drive.

I have created a 2k3 virtual server and I am having trouble accessing the cd
drive on the physical machine. In the server configuration I show attachment
to the secondary channel and I am capturing the Drive d that shows up in the
drop down but I get insert media into drive when ...

A virtual win2k and win2k3 server are setup and running. They are allocated
10gbs each for their virtual drive. Two partitions have been created on each
os (C and D drive) with each 10gb virtual drive. How can I increase the size
of this to increase the size of the drives in the ...

Anyone got any idea on how to simulate server recovery(using Veritas IDR)
using Virtual server without causing downtime to the live server? I'm using
HP server with RAID 5 configured.
Anyone can help on this?