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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/details.aspx?familyid=6DBA2278-B022-4F56-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 [/quote]
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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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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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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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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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--: Original message follows :-- "John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message

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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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke -- "Zack Whittaker" wrote in message 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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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. -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"John Jay Smith" <-> a écrit dans le message de news: e%2388XG9VGHA.4416@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... | 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)

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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"Zack Whittaker" wrote in
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)
So I can install VS on XP SP2 and run Vista on a virtual machine?
Has anyone tried this?

You need to use Windows XP Pro Edition, however, because Windows XP Home Edition does not include IIS.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

Yep, and yep!
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--: Original message follows :-- "darius" wrote in message "Zack Whittaker" wrote in
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)
So I can install VS on XP SP2 and run Vista on a virtual machine?
Has anyone tried this?