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[SWISHAWAY]

hOW TO SET UP VIRTUAL MACHINE WITH WINDOWS 2003 ADVANCED SERVER OR IS IT NOT POSSIBLE?
THANKS

 

[aftertaf]

what vm software are you using??

Aftertaf

getting quite good at sorting out Windows problems...
An expert when it comes to crashing Linux distributions (mdk, debian - nothing withstands me)

 

[tuliphead]

Two steps:

1) Download & get yourself a legal copy (either trial or licenced) of some emulation software:
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http://www.vmware.com

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http://www.microsoft.com/virtualpc

2) Get yourself a legal copy (either trial or licenced) of windows server 2003
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows2003

After that, the installation of windowsserver itself is pretty straight forward ... as is the emulation software. You´ll get into this really quick.

 

[wheelandcog]

its rather good fun, I'm currently running two ad forests , suse enterprise netware 4 and 6 groupwise and assorted 2k servers and various clients.....

one word of warning, i stuffed up on the networking config first time round and one of the vm 2k3servers managed to assign dhcp address's to machines on the corporaton network... quite funny really. glad i found out before i started fecking around with GP and Software installs.

I now have them static IP'd on a different subnet thats invisible to the rest of the network .. and the networking set to LOCAL only...

have fun

 

[tuliphead]

wheelandcog:
You´re right. The vmware dhcp-service is spooky. A work-around might be to run all servers on a closed network (only communicating with the host-system). Or eventually ... you can just disable the vmware dhcp service.

 

[SWISHAWAY]

Thanks for your help. This is what I found out from the internet but wasn't sure because someone told me that he ran windows 2003 advanced server without a VM software and that 2003 acts as a VM machine. I saw that advanced server 2005 offers the possibility of creating virtual server.