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November 05, 2004 12:00 AM

Check out the VirtualServer Migration Toolkit (VSMT)

Ward Ralston
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I have been looking over the first round of entries for the Virtualization Hero contest, and I am absolutely impressed by the cleverness of these Virtual Server 2005 real-world implementations. At Microsoft, we love to see our customers using this product in ways that we have never thought of. We want to see more!
 
I also want to take a moment to let everyone know that the VirtualServer Migration Toolkit (VSMT) was released to the web as free download for Virtual Server. You can download this tool here.

This tool will simplify the migration of a physical server into a virtual environment managed by Virtual Server 2005.

We are looking forward to reading through the next set of entries - Keep them coming in!!

Thank you on behalf of the Virtual Server Team,
Ward Ralston
Technical Product Manager
Microsoft Corporation

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  • wardralstonms
    8 years ago
    Nov 30, 2004

    VMWare ESX, contrary to popular belief, does not run without a host OS. They use a modified RedHat 7.2 distro called VMNix. One of the main advantages of running virtual server on Windows Server 2003 is that you are not limited to the hardware that your guest OS can run on. Windows Server 2003 supports a huge array of hardware out of the box. in addition, you can take advantage of the management and security features of Windows Server 2003.

  • Anonymous User
    8 years ago
    Nov 16, 2004

    Does MS plan to release a VM server that works like VMware ESX and runs independently of a host OS so I don't have to run 3 copies of Windows if I want 2 virtual machines?

  • wardralstonms
    8 years ago
    Nov 11, 2004

    You got it!!

    - Ward

  • Anonymous User
    8 years ago
    Nov 11, 2004

    So based on the whitepaper above, Device Manager will show the same devices in every virtual machine everywhere, no matter what the physical machine actually has. Does this mean if my OS doesn't have a driver for my nic but does have a driver for the Intel 21141 NIC, I could run it in a vm and it would work fine?

  • wardralstonms
    8 years ago
    Nov 10, 2004

    Ward here.

    Good question. You essentially got it. I would like to direct you to a white paper that I think will do a much good job at answering your more technical questions:

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/5/3/55321426-cb43-4672-9123-74ca3af6911d/VS2005TechWP.doc

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