Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta2 is now available
More details from Dugie and John.
Also you can take a look at the main Virtual Server site where it has this overview
This release includes:
| • | AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) compatibility |
| • | Intel Virtualization Technology (IVT) compatibility |
| • | Host Clustering technical white paper |
| • | Active Directory integration using service connection points |
| • | Volume Shadow Service, which provides customers with improved support for backup and disaster recovery. Instead of scheduling downtime for backing up each virtual machine individually, customers will now be able to take snapshot backups of physical machines that will in turn take snapshots of all the virtual machines on that physical host. |
| • | Offline VHD mounting now enables customers to view and manipulate the files in a VHD without having to start the virtual machine. This will now enable administrators to easily deploy scripts and perform virus scans across VHDs without having to start each virtual machine. |
| • | Windows Vista will be supported as a guest OS when Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 becomes generally available. |
Comments
- Anonymous
August 31, 2006
Will Vista be supported as the Host OS, meaning will I be able to run the installer without having to have IIS6 Compatibility installed? - Anonymous
August 31, 2006
Hi,
The following was true for XP (see link) and it's likely (but in no way am I saying for sure) it will be true for Vista - it
should work for non-production usage.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/evaluation/virtualizationfaq.mspx
Ben also talked about this earlier this month http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/08/01/446236.aspx