I've spent several hours search through TechNet articles, Blogs and
Newsgroups attempting to find out why XP Pro should not be used as a
Host OS for Virtual Server 2005 R2 in a Production environment.  I
have a dual processor Xeon Server with 2-GB RAM, 2 SCSI hard drives

i have 2 server (HP DL380-windows 2003 ent sp2), and virtual server 2005 R2
SP1 installed on the 2.
On the first i have 1 VM wich work perfectly with virtual network link on
the physical teaming 1 of the host

dear friend,
I was setting up a W2008 RC1 with a SCSI disc and the additions from the SP1
on my VS2005 R2 EE SP1 (x64)
Are there a download link for more recent additions? The peformance of the

This is a continuation of the 11/08/2007 posting "Virtual Machine wont reset
and other problems"
The problem with our vitual guest servers freezing continues even after
installing KB941125.  It looked good for a while, but then the familiar

I have installed a Host with 4 NIC's and Virtual Server R2 SP1 installed on
a Windows Server 2003 64bit System.
Reading through the best practice document for Virtual Server: My goal is to
have three guest OS's running Windows Server 2003 on seperate HD's and on

I decided to virtualize my two DC/DNS/DCHP servers.. but (i guess naturally)
this has caused a problem..
I split these two over two different physical hosts to prvent this issue..
but this is not enough i guess...

This may seem like a silly question, but a co-worker told me that
Microsoft does not officially support its own products if they are
running on Virtual Server 2005 in a production environment. For
example, I was told that Microsoft will not support an IIS install on

Here are some results using Performancetest 6.1, on a virtual server 2005 r2
sp1, virtual server, running Enterprise x64 r2 sp2...
Fixed Virtual drive:  , NO Virtual Addons installed
Burst:  128.0 MB/sec

I have installed 6 virtual servers 3 on each physical machine.  One of them
on each server had a hard time rebooting after joining the domain.  So I did
a force shut down then rebooted them.  The came up OK the second time but had
lost any information of me joing them to the ...

I have been a huge fan of  MS Virtual Server and have been using it for non
production use on PC for a couple of years.
However recently we place a few virtual servers into production on HP360
kit. We have experienced extremely slow copy of files from the VM server to

I have just installed Server 2008 X64 Enterprice RC1, and I have set the
server role to Hyper-V. When I open the Hyper-V Manager to make a new
virtual machine I see the manager saying "The Hyper-V Service is not
availabel", I can't figuer out what's missing to get this working. I ...

Goal:
- To set up two virtual networks (using VS 2005) on two separate computers,
connected via a wired/wireless router, that can communicate with each other.
- (Optional) To have all VMs have connectivity to the internet

I have a virtual server that I would like to change the name on it.   It is
currently a member server on our domain.
Can someone walk me through the steps?  Also, I want to change the name of
the virtual folders and files if that is possible.

I'm about to embark on virtualizing some of our servers into VMs..
using VS R2.. Curious what the verdict is on best performance.. is
Dynamic really a bad performer after some time, due to fragmentation..
Is fixed the best alternate here or should I consider just dedicated

I have a W2003 guest running in VS2005R2 on my XP-Pro SP2 box. It is
set to autostart with my main system with a 5 minute delay.
Yesterday I had a bluescreen on my main system when I inserted a USB2
disk drive into a USB2 hub (don't know why that happened). So I had to