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• Anyone up for annual software tax?

  I've been fairly critical of the Virtual Server 2005 R2 plans , mostly because I felt it to be unreasonable for current customers to have to invest in a new license just to be able to use their $999 Virtual Server 2005 Enterprise license effectively with... Posted Dec 16 2005, 04:21 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: General, Virtual Server

• Want a usable Virtual Server? Pay more money!

  Microsoft renamed Virtual Server 2005 SP1 to R2 somewhere this week, which at first may sound like a technicality, but one that could end up costing you some money. According to the FAQ : Customers with active Software Assurance (SA) when Virtual Server... Posted Aug 26 2005, 11:19 PM by jvdbos with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Server

• Actual slow network on virtual machines fixed

  Until today I still wasn't able to install the July CTP of VS.NET 2005 on a VM hosted by Virtual Server 2005 until someone in microsoft.public.virtualserver found the following KB article: Slow performance when you try to access resources on your Virtual... Posted Aug 08 2005, 04:13 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: Virtual Server

• Copying virtual machines made easy (sort of)

  As I mentioned in my previous post on Virtual Server 2005, it's very easy to create a base virtual machine that contains (for instance) a fully patched version of Windows XP Pro and copy it around to work with multiple instances since all a VM really... Posted Aug 03 2005, 04:15 PM by jvdbos with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Server

• Virtual Server 2005: first experiences

  After attending TechEd Europe 2005 last week, I decided to give my free copy of Virtual Server 2005 a go on the development server at work. My initial impressions were very good, in fact, the whole system in general works much better than I had expected... Posted Jul 19 2005, 11:37 AM by jvdbos with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Server