Virtual Server 2005 R2 is free, and Linux is supported...
Not the best kept secret I know (and so do you all by now), but the press release is here,
In summary, Virtual Server 2005 R2 will become a free download, in effect there is now only the Enterprise edition, so 1-32 CPU's are supported on the host server.
The second part os that these Linux distributions are supported:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
- Red Hat Linux 7.3
- Red Hat Linux 9.0
- SuSE Linux 9.2
- SuSE Linux 9.3
- SuSE Linux 10
In addition "Microsoft continues to license royalty-free the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format of Microsoft Virtual Server. There are now more than 45 vendors signed up in this royalty-free license program" this is large increase over and above the original supporters of the VHD format.
John has additional details here and here as well.
Comments
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
PingBack from https://netweb.wordpress.com/2006/04/05/technet-bloggers-love-virtual-server-2005-r2/ - Anonymous
April 04, 2006
Sounds great. Is this going to be free for all or just for students?
For those of us trying to study whilst working full time it sounds brilliant because we can build virtual labs with ease...
Cheers for the good news :D - Anonymous
April 04, 2006
Ian,
Virtual Server 2005 R2 is free to all people, just go to www.microsoft.com/virtualserver and follow the links to the download.
All the best,
Clive