Virtual Server 2005 R2 is FREE!

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Zack Whittaker

Well, if anyone fancies sticking Vista on VS 2005 R2, they can now... for
free!
http://www.msblog.org/?p=454

Run IIS7 on Windows Vista (to install Virtual Server 2005 R2)
http://www.msblog.org/?p=387

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You can download it here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...AF96-7B95975DB13B&displaylang=en&hash=QM85LS5

Roman Modic wrote:
The virtual machine add-ins will soon be available as a free download, and
will be supported for an initial set of nine Linux
distributions listed below:

Enterprise distributions:
.. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)
.. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6)
.. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
.. Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

Standard distributions:

.. Red Hat Linux 7.3
.. Red Hat Linux 9.0
.. Novell's SuSE Linux 9.2
.. Novell's SuSE Linux 9.3
.. Novell's SuSE Linux 10.0
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Cheers, Roman
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Zack hi...

can you explain to me what the "Server" means.

I use VMWARE workstation all the time, and know that vmware also has created
a "server edition" that is free.

Does server mean you install the server first before any OS, and then
install the various OS on top of that?
If so, isnt that slow compared to a normal PC with its OS installed?

Thanks

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When you say the term "server", it generally means "supporting clients" and
that can be used in many contexts. Windows Server 2003 "supports" Windows XP
as it's client for example, as Virtual Server 2005 R2 does.

What it does, is gives you a nice easy interface for controlling virtual
versions of operating systems. Although VS 2005 R2 can be installed on a
server OS, it can also be installed on XP SP2.

VMWare Workstation is the equivilant to Virtual PC 2004. The server editions
are more powerful, have more security and have more features, and generally
do more with them - that's basically it really :o)

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Actually the server edition works as a service under the host OS, so you can
launch a (or several) virtual machine(s) and have it/them run in the
background without user interaction, unlike the workstation version which
always creates a visible window. At least this goes for Virtual PC/Virtual
Server. I'm not familiar with VMWare Server – yet. Of course it's slower
than running directly on the hardware, but not more so than VMWare
Workstation.
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"John Jay Smith" <-> a écrit dans le message de e%[email protected]...
| Zack hi...
|
| can you explain to me what the "Server" means.
|
| I use VMWARE workstation all the time, and know that vmware also has
created
| a "server edition" that is free.
|
| Does server mean you install the server first before any OS, and then
| install the various OS on top of that?
| If so, isnt that slow compared to a normal PC with its OS installed?
|
| Thanks
 
When you say the term "server", it generally means "supporting
clients" and that can be used in many contexts. Windows Server 2003
"supports" Windows XP as it's client for example, as Virtual Server
2005 R2 does.

What it does, is gives you a nice easy interface for controlling
virtual versions of operating systems. Although VS 2005 R2 can be
installed on a server OS, it can also be installed on XP SP2.

VMWare Workstation is the equivilant to Virtual PC 2004. The server
editions are more powerful, have more security and have more
features, and generally do more with them - that's basically it
really :o)
Click to expand...

So I can install VS on XP SP2 and run Vista on a virtual machine?

Has anyone tried this?
 
Yep, and yep!

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You need to use Windows XP Pro Edition, however, because Windows XP Home
Edition does not include IIS.
 
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