Wow, very cool!

Thanks for the update!

Jonathan

How about support for clipboard Cut/Paste actions between the host and guest OS?

It's absolutely horrible without it: totally unable to create screenshots, or exchange URLs or other plain/text data. An absolute frustration!

Cut/Paste is an must between the host and the guest OS!!

Hi Erik,

The shared folders and clipboard features that you have in Virtual PC were not implemented for Virtual Server 2005 because they introduce a potential security vulnerability, given the way that Virtual Server is deployed and the typical usage scenarios. The product team is aware that a lot of people want this capability and are investigating ways to mitigate the security issue so these features can be included in future versions. In the meantime, you'll need to create shared folders/mapped drives on your host and/or guest machines just like you would to share data between two physical machines.

-Megan

The beta might be available at the end of the first quarter in 2005. The most important improvement will probably concern performance and scalability. Read what Kurt Schmucker, the programmer manager for the Service Pack 1 says....

How about the possibilty to make screenshots from the Virtual Machine Remote Control Client. Now I have to lose focus from the VMRC and make a full screenshot to capture the screen of the VMRC.

Hi Eric,

To take a screen shot --

At the top of the VMRC window, click Remote Control, point to Special Keys, and then click Send Print Screen. This sends the Print Screen command to the virtual machine. Then open Paint in the guest operating system, click Edit, and then click Paste. Voila!

Hope this helps!
Megan

Is there any word yet on whether or not this service pack will include support for USB hardware (non-HID)? If not, is there a timeframe for USB device support?

Hi Jas,

Support for USB hardware such as smart card readers or scanners isn't planned for Virtual Server SP1, but is being investigated for a future version. As a workaround, users have reported success using a USB smart card reader via RDP with redirection enabled.

-Megan

Hi Megan,

Security is all well and good - but surely thats an issue for the user to decide. Whats wrong with a "turn off clipboard" option for those who consider their systems insecure? We only use VS for internal puposes and as most of our virtual machines are used to house VPN Clients, mapped drives are not an option (the servers are on a different network).

Bones

Hi Bones, The product team is considering all options and plan to address this issue in a future release. Sorry I can't be more informative at this point.

-Megan

Hi Megan, <br> <br>I have three questions that I hope you can help me with <br> <br>1. Is there going to be an ISCI cluster support that makes it possible to cluster more than a 2-node cluster as well as setting up a cluster that spans over multiple virtual server hosts? <br>2. I really do miss the undo disk features when I'm accessing the virtual machines trough vmrc, is that something that might show up in SP1 or any later versions? <br>3. Is there going to be some improvment in the way that you give diffrent people access to diffrent virtual machines? I would like to be able to give a specific person or group the right to only see the virtual machines they should have access to in vmrc and the administration website, not all the machines. <br> <br>Conny

Hi Megan, <br> <br>Since we use VS for testing purposes we want to make the screenshot on the workstatation where we run VMRC. Because we do error logging on the workstation we need the screenshot on that machine and not on the VS session (guest) <br> <br>Eric

Hi Eric,

What type of screen capture behavior would you like to see instead of the current behavior?

Thanks,
Megan