Draft whitepaper: Virtual Server versus Virtual PC

re: Draft whitepaper: Virtual Server versus Virtual PC

Ogy — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:18:26 GMT

Hi Megan,
nice article - informative and direct.
Thanks!

re: Draft whitepaper: Virtual Server versus Virtual PC

Alessandro Perilli — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:48:56 GMT

Hi Megan,
good work. This will be really useful for customers approaching Microsoft virtualization.

I reported the paper on my blog.

Thanks
Alessandro Perilli

http://www.virtualization.info

re: Draft whitepaper: Virtual Server versus Virtual PC

Julesman — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:24:18 GMT

Correction: Need to change "Software Management Services" to "Systems Management Server 2003 SP1"

Clarification: Need to change "Multi Processor Support" to "Host Multi Processor Support"

Good article.

re: Draft whitepaper: Virtual Server versus Virtual PC

megand — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:40:37 GMT

Got it. Thanks Jules!
-Megan

re: Draft whitepaper: Virtual Server versus Virtual PC

Bryant Likes — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:52:38 GMT

Very helpful paper. Looks good!

My only suggestion would be to expand a little on the part about Virtual Server's only being able to utilize one processor on the host machine. Does this apply to physical processors or virtual processors or both? What kind of impact does this have on virtual machines. Does this same limitation exist for Virtual PC?

Thanks!

re: Draft whitepaper: Virtual Server versus Virtual PC

megand — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:48:53 GMT

Hi Bryant,

Virtual Server can take advantage of up to 32 physical processors on the host. Each running virtual machine can use up to one CPU. So, for example, you could have 31 running virtual machines, each using one CPU, with the host operating system using one CPU. Virtual PC can take advantage of only one physical processor (which makes sense, given that it's rare to find a multi-processor desktop machine).

Does this clear things up?
Megan

Virtual Server 2005 comparison with Virtual PC 2004

John Howard — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:19:37 GMT

I am currently updating my&nbsp;slidedeck for the webcast I'm doing this Friday on Virtual Server bringing...

re: Draft whitepaper: Virtual Server versus Virtual PC

Mike Mitchell — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:00:33 GMT

Great paper - I'm going to add it to the TAM Newsletter for May 2005 :)

re: Draft whitepaper: Virtual Server versus Virtual PC

Desmond Lee — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:40:55 GMT

Great article (*)! Need to raise a couple of points for clarification:

(*) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/techinfo/vsvsvpc.mspx

1. this paper was published officially May 2005 (per article) but did not include any key VPC 2004 SP1 info released in Oct 2004 (e.g. Win Server 2003 Standard as host, improved Win XP SP2 support as guest): http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx

2. Win 2000 Server and Win Server 2003 are not explicitly listed as supported guest OS under VPC 2004 (Pg 8 in this paper), neither in this paper nor online (last update November 10, 2003) at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/evaluation/overview2004.mspx and http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx

W2k3 as guest has been a feature in several MS Learning "Instructor-lead" MOC courses (VPC 2004) for sometime now.

3. same as #2 above but for Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SP1 as well?).

4. in this paper section 'Shared Features' on Pg 7, can the 'certain limitations' be expanded on?

Thanks a lot!

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