I just got VS 2005 installed and installed these Operating Systems - W2K,
XP, NT4, W2K3.  I need to simulate AD migration but I'm not sure how to take
snapshot of these OSes before I run the migration.  This way, if I ever need
to roll back, I can easily do that.

i want to backup my Virtual Machies while they are running.
Has anybody any experiences with that and some hints, of which Software
to use?
I thougth about using Acronis Trueimage Server 8.0. They said, that

R2 has been RTM already but is not available on MSDN.  However, when SQL
2005 and most other MS product RTM, they appear almost immediately on MSDN.
What is the delay with VS R2 being on MSDN?  Is the team on a different time
table?

I have set up a Windows cluster using Virtual Server 2005.  I have the
quorum disk attached as SCSI 0 ID 0.  I now want to attach another SCSI
disk.  When I try to attach it I can only see the four IDE connections
and SCSI 0 ID 0.  I assume SCSI 0 ID 0 is the ID of the quorum disk

Wounder if VS2005 R2 having support of wlan?
We have need to connect 5 vs guest to diffrent net (e.x: server1
192.168.0.3, server 2 180.10.2.6, server3 10.0.0.5 etc..). To do this, the
hostserver needs to tag the communication traffic (if i use one physical nic

Just installed VS 2005, and begun testing it. I made a base image, syspreped
it, and startet a new  virtual machine. Then I tried to install SP1 for
windows 2003. And everything went wrong. When it begun installing SP1 I got
errors saying files where missing, and it rolled back ...

Gurus,
A colleague told me the great thing about virtual server is that if it
exists on a machine which fails, you can simply copy it's blob data over to
another machine and start it up there.  What is this blob data of which he

I got the following scenario.
Virtual Server 2005 is installed on Windows XP machine at my home. Three
virtual machine are running. I have configured web server on the host machine.
I have confgiured my ADSL MODEM for port forwarding (port 80) .

In some other posts i read that placing an offline stand-alone root CA on
Virtual Server is unsupported. Is this true for Certificate Services in
general? Where can i find the official Microsoft statement about this?
Thanks in advance,

Is it actually possible to configure different VM's with different
subnet addresses beause I'm using it for testing AD Domain and also
SMS2k3 across different sites hence I want to use different address
subnets......

With Virtual Server 2005 Standard on XP SP2, I am attempting to create a
linked virtual disk.  However, as soon as I select "Linked Virtual Hard
Disk" the web page displays "The following error occured:  The parameter is
incorrect".

Is MS Virtual Server 2005 supported as a control workstation to perform an
AD rename operation?

Can Virtual PC 2004 and VirtualServer 2005 both be installed (side-by-side)
on a Windows XP Professional?
I already use Virtual PC extensively, but I am curious about Virtual Server
and would like to install it as well on my XP.

I have an issue on a couple virtual servers - the guest OS'es time
"drifts" pretty severely - it ends up being behind the host and behind
the rest of the domain which is using standard windows domain time
sync.

Does this work with Virtual Server?
Virtual Machine Network Driver for Microsoft Device Emulator
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