ADS 1.1 and VSMT on 64-bit hosts

re: ADS 1.1 and VSMT on 64-bit hosts

Adam Bell — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:24:39 GMT

John,

What is it with MS and 64 bit at the moment?

http://bink.nu/Article6158.bink

Cheers

Adam

re: ADS 1.1 and VSMT on 64-bit hosts

jhoward — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:54:09 GMT

Hi Adam - Curious comment that one you refer to - I was at those sessions at IT Forum and was manning the booth at the Virtual Server ask-the-experts for many hours and it was made very clear publicly (not that it was new news at the time) that the next version of Virtual Server (as yet un-named and I've seen called v."Next", Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, Virtual Server 2005 "R3") is due to beta H106 and release H206 will only add support for Pacifica & VT technology. 64-bit support for guests will only be appearing in Windows Virtualisation in the Longhorn Server timeframe. Hmmm.
Cheers,
John.

re: ADS 1.1 and VSMT on 64-bit hosts

Conny — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:33:54 GMT

Hi Howard,

Regarding VSMT and x64 support.
I have also tried to install ads and vsmt 1.1 on Windows server 2003 x64 ent edition without success. Have you read "Applications Supporting Windows Server 2003 x64 EE" http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/x64/app64catalog.aspx ...... strange
When I understood that I couldn't install ADS on the x64 server I installed ads 1.1 and vsmt on a 32-bit windows server 2003 EE instead. I then installed the 64-bit ads agent on the x64 Virtual Server. But when I then tried to install vsmt tools on the x64 Virtual Server, I got an error message saying it wasn't supported.
So is it possible to use vsmt to migrate a machine to a Virtual Server 2005 R2 x64?

P.S. Are you shure you have to install Virtual Server

re: ADS 1.1 and VSMT on 64-bit hosts

jhoward — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:11:29 GMT

Unfortunately, VSMT is not supported on a 64-bit platform. You need to have both ADS on 32-bit and VSMT on a 32-bit Virtual Server. Once you have completed the migration via the "interim" server, you can move the VM's across to a 64-bit VS Host without problem.