Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

Jeremy — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:04:49 GMT

FYI It appears that the link to download the 32-bit installer actually downloads the 64-bit installer and vice-versa.

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

SvenC — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:47:53 GMT

Are 64-bit guests supported in this release? I read different opinions if the R2 SP1 will support that.

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

Virtual PC Guy — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:01:02 GMT

Jeremy - the links have been fixed now.

SvenC - No, only 32-bit guests. 64-bit guests will be supported in the upcoming release of Windows Server Virtualization.

Cheers,

Ben

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

Jules — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:49:49 GMT

I am having trouble downloading. It doesn't appear as an available connection. I signed up previously to download beta 2, which now has only 42 days left. The only recently added download I can see is the readme. Any ideas?

re: Virtual Server 2005 and WMware server

Nikola — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:53:44 GMT

Virtual Server 2005 R2 and WMware server, can they run on same host OS ?

When can we expect 64-bit guests to be supported on VS2005R2 ?

Thanks in advance !

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

yoyo — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:30:21 GMT

Nikola,

yes, you can run both on the same system, however, you will have problems if you try to run to VMs and have hardware virtualization enabled on both VS and VMWS.

64bit guest support won't be available until Viridian, or MS virtualization, which will be about 180 days after longhorn rtms

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

Augusto Alvarez — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:53:36 GMT

I never tried to install a release candidate of any kind of SP. What happens if in the future I try to install a RC2? Or a final version? I must unistall the previous version of the SP I assume, but that wont give me any extra problems?

Cheers!

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

Norman Diamond — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:27:48 GMT

Monday, April 23, 2007 2:53 PM by Augusto Alvarez

> What happens if in the future I try to install

> a RC2? Or a final version? I must unistall the

> previous version of the SP I assume,

Usually true (if not always).

> but that wont give me any extra problems?

That's pretty much random. Sometimes you can do an uninstall. Sometimes you have to do uninstallations in exactly the right order. Sometimes Microsoft provides an uninstaller as a separate download. Sometimes you have to pave your hard disk and reinstall your original Windows system.

This is exactly the reason why you shouldn't install betas, RCs, new Windows versions prior to SP3, etc., on production machines. You should only install them on crash boxes. Usually you should install them in virtual machines so it's easy to throw them away and reinstall, but that technique doesn't work here because the developers of Visual Server aren't Hofstadter fans.

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

sj — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:22:26 GMT

augusto,

this is not a service pack. you can't just install SP1, when you install, you reinstall the whole app. To revert back, you'd simply unistall this version, and install your old Virtual Server 2005

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

Norman Diamond — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:44:13 GMT

It still seems random to me. I seem to recall some service packs being uninstallable, for some versions of Windows (memorably not including NT4), Office, etc. I seem to recall uninstalling a beta SP1 of Visual Studio 2005 without having to uninstall and reinstall Visual Studio 2005, but I might be misremembering the additional hotfix that gets it running on Vista.

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

smsolutions — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:21:36 GMT

Any harm/problems taking virtual machines (Win2k3 Std R2 VHDs) images between the beta and RC?

re: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Release Candidate available for download

Chris — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:11:41 GMT

Just upgraded my 2005-SP1-Beta2 installation, running on Win2K3 R2 x64 with Intel VT-x. All went smoothly.

The guest machines, a mixture of Win2K3, Ubuntu Linux and WinXP are all working fine.