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Virtual Lab for MS 2003 Server

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by dwiemann 2 views

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What are the differences between these virtual lab programs? I'm trying to decide which would be best for a home lab training scenario. Would a 1.6GHz P4, 512MB be sufficient? Thanks.

MS Virtual Server (2005)

MS Virtual PC (2004)

VMWare

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by pgm554

Plus some sort of multiple spindle (RAID),otherwise it is slow going.
And Virtual server only runs on 2003 Server.No XP, no W2K Server.ONLY Server 2K3.

by pgm554

No IIS 6, no go.
Memory pig.(but hey,its Windows)
Use the SCSI driver not IDE, 10 to 20 % speed improvement.
W2K3 SP1 breaks some stuff(can't uninstall it)so be careful.

It's cheaper than Vmware (but not better) and it has a physical to virtual program that will let you virtualize old machines (it's free).
Vmware has one, but it is very $$$$$$.

by advancedgeek

I used vmware a lot, and it didn't really require much in the way of RAM...we had 512MB in those boxes that ran it (with 2 virtual machines running) and it ran it just fine. I'd suggest VMWARE because it's third party, and third party seems to always work better. :)

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