- Posted by justin on September 17, 2004
So I have been playing with virtual server for the last couple of weeks and absolutely love it. I was never a big fan of virtual pc because of the slowness of it and it lacked the ability allow the host pc to communicate into the virtual pc. With virtual server, I can easily configure and run multiple instances at once and it treats them each like a completely seperate server. I can even remote into the virtual server which is handy as I am running it on my dev box but do most of my daily work on my laptop. I have not noticed any slowness but I do have a pretty beefy dev box. I could see myself using virtual server to do mock installs, emulate an nlbs environment for testing, pathfinding for stuff like whidbey/yukon, etc..
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/default.mspx
There is also a migration toolkit that is in beta right now and looks promising. This kit is suppose to allow you to take a physical machine and convert it into a virtual server image. You can get more info at: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/evaluation/vsmtbeta.mspx