More on Home Server and Virtual Machines

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

A couple of points on running Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Home Server:

• Always apply Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 first
• Install the server hosting software on C drive.  C is the OS partition for Home Server, mine is 20GB in size.
• Install the VM hard drive files in a share like \\YourHomeServer\VM, not D drive, otherwise, you might get into file corruption issues.
• If you are running none-Windows guest operating systems, and the guest OS won’t boot up, try turn off the “Enable hardware-assisted virtualization if available” option.

While trying to install UBuntu on Virtual Server 2005, at one point, I gave up, decided to try VMWare Virtual Servers 2.0.  VMWare did not like the \\YourHomeServer\VM path notation for virtual hard drives, it kept complaining the size was too small to create the hard drive.  On Home server, other than C, you could not use any local hard drive letters, so I had to go back to Virtua Server 2005 R2.

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