Windows Server virtualization Community Technology Preview now available
As announced here: https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/sep07/09-24windowserverrc0.mspx Window Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 is now available for download (you can download it from here: https://www.microsoft.com/Windowsserver2008/audsel.mspx). The best thing as though is that this release includes the Windows Server virtualization Community Technology Preview.
Now - a couple of notes here:
This is a preview release.
Which means that performance / compatibility / stability is nowhere near what it will be by the time we ship the final release. The real purpose of this release is to give you a preview - so don't expect everything to work off the bat.
The following features are not present / supported in this release:
- Clustering of virtual machines
- Clustering of the physical servers
- Compacting of virtual hard disks
- Backing up guest operating systems using volume snapshot (VSS)
Virtual machines are only supported if they configured as follows:
- For the guest operating system, install one of the following:
- The RC0 release of Windows Server 2008 with a maximum of 4 virtual processors. No other release of Windows Server 2008 is supported with this release of Windows Server virtualization. You can install either a 32-bit version or an x64-based version.
- The Windows Server 2003 operating system, with a maximum of 1 virtual processor. You can install either a 32-bit version or an x64-based version.
- Maximum of 64 GB memory.
- Maximum of one virtual SCSI controller per virtual machine.
- Maximum of one virtual network controller per virtual machine.
- Maximum of one legacy virtual network controller per virtual machine.
- For the guest operating system, install one of the following:
Okay - start downloading now and I will have more posts about using the CTP coming.
Cheers,
Ben