Virtual love
I've used VirtualPC and VMWare for quite a while now, but just today got an OS running on Virtual Server. There's nothing like a disposable box, and we needed it: SharePoint “trashed” a multi-use server and today trashed the Virtual Server[1]. No worries, though, just make another! (Or, as will be the practice moving forward, use the copy that you made of the clean install.)
There was just something special about Remote Desktopping into a machine that doesn't exist. I've long gotten over running a virtual machine in my own box, and this was something different and beautiful. I'm thinking about installing Virtual Server into a guest VServer OS, then loading that image into the guest, and so on. Just keep going and see where it takes me.
Anyway, the whole point of writing this was to point out a great Virtual [Server|PC] resource: What Works and What Doesn't in Microsoft Virtual CP 2004. Believe it or not, the list of OSes is even longer than the website name. I had no idea this many OSes existed. Bravo! (Unfortunately, Womp! 0.6 doesn't recognize audio CD and Yoper 1.0 blue screens on install -- but 2.0 does indeed work.)
[1] Not trashed like killed it, but trashed like it wouldn't install, then wouldn't uninstall, and now refuses to even try to install. (Or at least that's what I hear on the grapevine.)