I have the Virtual Server 2005 R2 installed on a Dell 2650 running Win2003.
I can create the virtual machines, but I have problems when I try to Remote
Control to the VM to install the guest OS. It tries to connect to the VM
server, but then comes back with "No Connection".  I ...

I have a pentium 1.6ghz with 512Meg ram running xpsp2.  I configured a
2003sp1 virtual server and it was running with significant performance
issues.  I then upgraded to virtual server 2005 sp1 which is in beta and now
I am getting the error

I'm trying to switch from VPC 2004 SP1 to Virtual Server 2005 R2.
I copied a number of guest hosts to a separate directory, and added
them to Virtual Server.  Two of the guests started fine, but on the 3rd
one, I get an error saying that it cannot be started because of an

I've got a section of code that works fine with Visual Studios 2003, but
errors out when using Visual Studios 2005.  My first guess is that DCOM Type
or how you declare them has changed with the new .NET framework, but I am not
certain.  

This probably isn't the best place to get an unbiased opinion, but it's worth
a shot.  For those who happen to be familiar with both, which program would
you recommend, particulalarly to be used for disaster recovery purposes?  
Thanx

Lets say I wanted to merge a parent and child disk to form a new stand alone
vhd file. The documentation in says that the size of the new vhd file will be
the combined size of the parent and child.
Let say I have a parent Win2000 no service pack. (2.0 GB)

Is it possibile to migrate a VM created with VMWare in Virtual Server?
Is it possibile to execute VM created with Virtual Server in Virtual PC?
Thanks

I am considering swapping out the disk I use for Virtual Server data
files, and replace it with a larger one. I planned to install the new
disk, copy everything over to it, then shut down, take out the old disk,
and upon reboot ensure the new disk drive has the same letter as the ...

I'm running Microsoft 2005 Virtual Server R2 with Windows 2003 Server as the
Guest OS.  When the guest OS first comes up the, DVD/CD ROM is mapped as the
'D:' drive and the secondary hard disk drive, SCSI attached (virtual SCSI and
virtual hard drive) is mapped as the 'E:' drive. ...

My question actually has two patrts and I appreciate any help I can get with
either.
First, In the virtual server configuration home page I am unable to add a
second NIC card. This card is installed correctly on the host machine and has

I've created a virtual machine (VMWARE 5.5) where the host machine is a DC
Windows 2003
(AD+DNS+DHCP) and the guest is just a normal Windows 2003.
I need someone could help or give some tips in what kind of rules i must

We use SMS to install Symantec Antivirus Definitions on all our
servers. We found the VS goes down everytime, the updates are scheduled
to the server. After restarting the server everything works fine.
Are there any compatibility issues? Currently we restart the server

installing vm additions for Linux on suse linux 10.0 ...
The readme instructions titled "VM additions for Linux" have some linux
directory errors:
In step K of "MVS Setup"  cd /media/cdrom does not work. What does work

I have a vhd with that has about 10 GB on it, but is taking up 15 GB.  I've
run the pre-compact utility and have about 18 GB free on my disk, but every
time the compaction fails with this error:
The virtual hard disk "c:\vhds\MOSS07.vhd" could not be compacted. An

I'm Have been trying to install Vista/Longhorn on my Virtual Server, but it
does not boot into the OS. They are both DVD's. It does not recognise the
disk as being bootable. I have tried with a CD (windoes 2003 Server) and it
works fine. Is there something I'm am doing wrong ?