Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:00 AM BrianR

Virtual Server 2005 SP1 Beta and a whole lot more

Steve Ballmer today announced a bunch of stuff today related to Microsoft’s virtualization roadmap including:

  • Virtual Server 2005 SP1 Beta
  • Microsoft will be looking to 3rd parties to provide support for non Microsoft OSes under Virtual Server 2005
  • A new MOM 2005 management pack for Virtual Server 2005
  • Microsoft will license royalty-free the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file format

All of this is great news.

Some highlights in what’s new in VS2005 SP1 Beta:

  • Support for Windows 2003 SP1 Guests (right now if you’ve tried I’m sure you’ve found performance suffers)
  • Support for x64 hosts (guests will still be limited to 32-bit OSes)

 

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[0] http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/Apr05/04-20VirtualizationInvestmentsPR.asp

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