I am trying to move a demo VM from Hyper-V to my laptop which runs Virtual PC.
I have exported the VM from the Hyper-V machine and am now trying to set
this machine up on my laptop.
I am able to create a new machine (since the VM from Hyper-V does not

I'm newbie in this software and now want to migrate existing Windows
2000/2003 server to Virtual Server 2005 R2. The windows servers are
installing using Dell PowerEdge Installation and Server Management Bootable
CD so that a tiny dedicated disk partition is created for system ...

Trying to figure out a P2V solution.  We're mostly a Dell / Win2K3
environment.  My first couple of attempts at P2V using VSMT were disastrous,
failing to convert and destroying the source machine in the process.
I'm hoping SCVMM is a little more robust, a little less invasive, ...

I have existing production server that I would like to virtualize.
What's the easiest way to do this?  It has IIS, low utilized SQL, and
subversion on it.  It's also a DC, but we that doesn't need to be
virtualized and we may demote it before we do.  Is there a tool, or do

I have a Windows 2003 x64 server that I would like to install SCVMM 2007 on.
Part of the SCVMM 2007 install includes installing a database.  By default,
I think it tries to install SQL 2005 Express.
Will this run on my x64 server?  Or do I have to install a 64-bit compatible

This post is related to the one on 5 Jun 2008, but I think I asked the wrong
question in that one!
The operating system is Windows Server 2008 RTM with the RTM version of the
Hyper-V role installed (Windows6.0-KB950050-x64.msu).

Today I started some tests with protecting VMs using DPM 2007 and need some
help understanding the errors I'm getting:
The VSS writer for Virtual Server failed during the PostBackup phase, during
the mounting of disk

And it didn't blue screen either the physical or the virtual machine!
Hooray!
However, the network adapter on the vm says "not connected."  When I try to
connect to "External Netowrk (Intel Pro_1000 blah blah)" it says Update

I am looking to turn my VS2005 into an 08 environment and would like
to use a SAN now.
1. Can 2008 boot via PXE
2. Can Virtual Machine Manager migrate a VM from one physical server

I am trying to run Virtual Server on an XP laptop.
When I try to start the administration web site, I get 404 Resource Not Found.
Today, I tried to start it again at work (without any network connections,
and not using the FQDN) and I managed to get started.

Using MS Virtual Server 2005 SP1 on windows 2003 sp2.
I would like to get a quick snapshot of the vhd file (i am ok to make the
production vhd file offline to get a snapshot). Are there any tools rather
than to do a copy and paste of the vhd file ?

Is it possible to have a single cluster disk containing more than one
virtual machine under Hyper-V? The machines would then fail over together.
We've done this on Virtual Server 2005 R2 in order to save on drive letters.
If we need one drive letter per virtual machine we're ...

I'm testing SCVMM 2007 for our team to manage our 14 MSVS 2005 Hosts and I'm
finding that Hosts are going into a "Not Responding" state quite a bit.  I
did some research ande  found what to look for and in one case did find the
WinRS service had crashed.  Uninstalled/reinstalled ...

first of all ... if I am wrong here just point me to the correct place.
I tried to find a place were my problem/question is suited best and I
figured this newsgroup fits my problem the most. Second I want to
apologize for my crapy english :).

When I want to add more than 5 hosts on our SCVMM system, it says about a
restriction on hosts number.
Is there anyone who knows the resolution?
Thank you.