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From: Bob on 1 Dec 2009 07:12 Does anyone know if there are issues hosting VPCs on virtualized servers? eg VMWare. I've got VPC2007 installed on a VMWare Windows Server 2003 - Standard Edition which are listed as compatible. However when I start the VPCs I only get black screens. I have confirmed the test VPC works on a non-virtualized server. Any ideas? thanks
From: Mark Rae [MVP] on 1 Dec 2009 08:54 "Bob" <Bob(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:22343E03-E460-47EB-B147-0FC16BCCE0F6(a)microsoft.com... > Does anyone know if there are issues hosting VPCs on virtualized servers? > eg > VMWare. > > I've got VPC2007 installed on a VMWare Windows Server 2003 - Standard > Edition which are listed as compatible. However when I start the VPCs I > only > get black screens. I have confirmed the test VPC works on a > non-virtualized > server. > > Any ideas? Are you trying to run a virtual machine inside another virtual machine...? As far as I'm aware, that won't work... -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net
From: Robert Comer on 1 Dec 2009 10:07 If you're not getting an error about nested virtualization, most likely that's not really just a black screen, it's that the VM is ********SLOW*********, especially at POST, minutes just for that. You really don't want to be doing this, even if it worked it would be painfully slow for whoever's using the VM's. -- Bob Comer On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:12:01 -0800, Bob <Bob(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Does anyone know if there are issues hosting VPCs on virtualized servers? eg >VMWare. > >I've got VPC2007 installed on a VMWare Windows Server 2003 - Standard >Edition which are listed as compatible. However when I start the VPCs I only >get black screens. I have confirmed the test VPC works on a non-virtualized >server. > >Any ideas? > >thanks
From: Steve Jain [MVP] on 1 Dec 2009 12:50 On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:12:01 -0800, Bob <Bob(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Does anyone know if there are issues hosting VPCs on virtualized servers? eg >VMWare. Yes, it usually won't work, it's unsupported, and if it does work, your VMs will be so slow they'll be unusable and unstable. > >I've got VPC2007 installed on a VMWare Windows Server 2003 - Standard >Edition which are listed as compatible. However when I start the VPCs I only >get black screens. I have confirmed the test VPC works on a non-virtualized >server. > >Any ideas? Run all your VMs in VMWare Server. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ http://smudj.wordpress.com/
From: arturo on 3 Dec 2009 15:35
" Run all your VMs in VMWare Server. " hi Steve, do you mean it is possible to open VPC 2007 files from VMWare? thanks, Carlos |