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I’m just getting started experimenting with virtual machines. I’d like to virtualize several production servers onto one high powered box. I believe this will solve a lot of server room space problems. Especially when some of the servers never average above about 10% CPU use. It has always perturbed me that so many vendors require standalone servers for some of there programs when they just do minor operations, such as specialized print servering for a transcription product.]]>FrankThu, 23 Dec 2004 10:08:58 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/only-two-weeks-left#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorFri, 17 Dec 2004 22:43:25 GMT
For the question back on November 5th about having to buy a copy of Windows for each VM, while the answer is yes, one not commonly known fact is that any volume license of Windows XP and Windows 2000 actually comes with a virtual machine license. What does this mean? I means that if I use VMware wks or Virtual PC on a Windows 2000 Pro or WinXP Pro host, that I get a second license for a VM at no additional cost. This change happened in Oct 2003.]]>Anonymous User Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:43:25 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/only-two-weeks-left#commentsAnchorFri, 10 Dec 2004 00:08:02 GMT
I currently run w2k server in a vm acting as a lan router (RRAS). I then sit in my hotel room, as I am doing now, and assign manual private ip addresses to my host OS (XP PRo) nic and the internal virtual nic on the W2K vm. I set the external virtual nic to be assigned dynamically from the hotels router. I then run a netsh script on the dynamically assigned interface and capture the ip address, subnet mask, gateway and DNS info off the virtual nic. The script then computes the entire range of host ips for the subnet and statically assigns them to the once dynamic virtual nic. IP addresses get released on a remarkably frequent basis in hotels. I’ve seen some hotel routers that have lease periods of 6 hours. IP addresses that are released back to the DHCP pool become the property of the external nic on my vm. DHCP on the hotel router will lease them out from the pool but users will receive a notification that there is a conflict using that IP address on the network. The mac address is virtual along with the nic. NAT-ting behind the vm I can then stand up additional vm’s on my own private hotel network. Cool. Frustration is the mother of invention. ]]>BENJAMINFri, 10 Dec 2004 00:08:02 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/only-two-weeks-left#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorMon, 06 Dec 2004 18:40:39 GMT
While you can use VSMT to migrate a server with a static IP, you’ll need to manually configure the static IP address after the migration is complete. VSMT automatically assigns dynamic IP addresses, even if the source IP address was static. Read all about it in the user guide (%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft VSMT\Help\VSMT.chm). - Megan (MSFT), tech writer for virtualization technologies - http://blogs.msdn.com/megand]]>Anonymous User Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:40:39 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorTue, 30 Nov 2004 08:33:56 GMT
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.]]>wardralstonmsTue, 30 Nov 2004 08:33:56 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/only-two-weeks-left#commentsAnchorTue, 30 Nov 2004 08:24:21 GMT
Absolutely - yes! I do this all the time when I am evaluating and testing our products. I think that you will find you have a lot of flexibility with virtual networks to create your own networked environment. One trick I like to use to avoid domain conflicts is create a virtual network on a private IP range on a ’local only’ network adaptor for all of the computers in the domain. (A domain sandbox if you will) I then add another virtual network card to an image running ISA Server that gets an address from the corporate network so the the computers can still communicate on the Internet. Neat?]]>wardralstonmsTue, 30 Nov 2004 08:24:21 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/only-two-weeks-left#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorTue, 30 Nov 2004 08:12:51 GMT
Ward here.... one the moving images questions: Yes, you can move VHDs around to different drives. Shut the Image down and move the VHD and VMC files to the new locations. Make sure that you populate that location in the ’Search Paths" location.]]>wardralstonmsTue, 30 Nov 2004 08:12:51 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/only-two-weeks-left#commentsAnchorTue, 23 Nov 2004 20:31:39 GMT
I have a mixture of 13 PC’s, (laptop/Deskop) that I use to build networks at home to better understand. I am interesed in seeing if I can have one or two beefed up PCs that can simulate a network in a virtualization world and take the different settings that I would normally do on a phyisical box and it respond the same way...for instance an active directory that has DNS, Wins, DHCP, Exchange, Client simulated boxes that actually simulate the real enviroment...]]>JACK WTue, 23 Nov 2004 20:31:39 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/only-two-weeks-left#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorFri, 19 Nov 2004 08:41:31 GMT
I have a WindowsXP machine at home connected to my home network. I also VPN into the network at work and do alot of work from home. I did not want to put my home machine on the domain at work because it would cause problems with sharing at home. I had a Win2K license, so I purchased a copy of Virutal PC, installed Win2K and put it on the domain. I am now able to access the domain at work and my home network from the same machine. It’s great!]]>Anonymous User Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:41:31 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorTue, 16 Nov 2004 17:21:01 GMT
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?]]>Anonymous User Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:21:01 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorTue, 16 Nov 2004 09:23:22 GMT
I’ve created a VHD on my Virtual Server ,it is located in the default folder .My question is can I move it to anorther drive ?]]>Anonymous User Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:23:22 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorMon, 15 Nov 2004 17:38:47 GMT
Ward here. On the question about migrating NT4 to Virtual Server, the Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/evaluation/vsmt.mspx)supports the migration of NT 4.0 SP6a, and facilitates the re-hosting of servers in a virtual environment with the same settings as the physical server. Hope that helps. ]]>Anonymous User Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:38:47 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorThu, 11 Nov 2004 12:59:08 GMT
You got it!! - Ward]]>wardralstonmsThu, 11 Nov 2004 12:59:08 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorThu, 11 Nov 2004 04:18:31 GMT
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?]]>Anonymous User Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:18:31 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorWed, 10 Nov 2004 15:28:07 GMT
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 ]]>wardralstonmsWed, 10 Nov 2004 15:28:07 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorWed, 10 Nov 2004 08:28:29 GMT
So I don’t get how Virtualization works. Does the VM just act like an x86 emmulator and intercept all the system calls to pass them along to the real OS? Wouldn’t that be incredibly slow? Do the virtual OSs run in kernel mode? If not, why don’t they complain?]]>Anonymous User Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:28:29 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/check-out-the-virtualserver-migration-toolkit-vsmt-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorTue, 09 Nov 2004 13:35:57 GMT
We are using it for a less expensive DR product. Although not supported we have successfully copied / backed up running VHD’s and restored them to another unit without data loss. This was important to us here in South Florida for the smaller companies that cannot afford expensive DR budgets. ]]>Anonymous User Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:35:57 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorTue, 09 Nov 2004 13:13:58 GMT
Can I migrate NT 4.0 SP6a to virtual server using static IP’s ?]]>Anonymous User Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:13:58 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorFri, 05 Nov 2004 13:34:38 GMT
Hi, this is Ward. Thanks for your questions! Here’s some thoughts: What’s the difference between Virtual Server and Virtual PC? Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 allows you to run multiple PC-based operating systems on a single Windows workstation, and is $129 US. Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 is the most cost effective virtual machine solution designed for Windows Server 2003 that enables developers and administrators to achieve increased operational efficiency in software test and development, legacy line-of-business application migration, and server consolidation scenarios. There are two editions of Virtual Server 2005: Standard Edition (up to 4 processors) - $499 US (ERP), and Enterprise Edition (up to 32 processors) $999 US (ERP). Can I run Linux under Virtual Server or Virtual PC? You can run virtually all major x86-based operating systems as guests; however, Microsoft Product Support Services supports only Windows as guest operating systems on Virtual Server 2005. If I want to run two copies of windows on one box, do I have to buy a 2nd license? Yes. Microsoft licenses its operating systems on a per-install basis, so each installed copy of Windows must be separately licensed. ]]>Anonymous User Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:34:38 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchorTue, 02 Nov 2004 11:50:00 GMT
Ward, I use both Linux and windows at home in a dual boot environment. I looked into buying VMWare a while back, but decided it was too expensive. I really need both OSs running at the same time though, and I’m thinking about it again because it’s still cheaper than a 2nd pc. A few questions? - Can I run Linux under Virtual Server or Virtual PC? - What’s the difference between Virtual Server and Virtual PC? - If I want to run two copies of windows on one box, do I have to buy a 2nd license? ]]>Anonymous User Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:50:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/interoperability/how-do-you-use-virtualization-technology-#commentsAnchor