Comments on: Microsoft Virtual PC vs. Sun VirtualBox

By: john

john — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:21:39 +0000

Important note, VirtualBox does not support 64bit guests unless your hardware and BIOS both support 64bit virtualization. Same for Hyper-V.

By: Tony Northrup

Tony Northrup — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:20:40 +0000

Hiya, John. Here’s a link to download a trial of WS08R2:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trial-software.aspx

Of course, it’s 64-bit only, so you’ll need to use Sun VirtualBox (which, if you watched the video, you know that I prefer anyway).

I’m not sure if you can download regular Windows Server 2008, but R2 will be fine for the labs and such.

BTW, if you don’t mind blowing away XP, you’ll get way better performance out of those older laptops by installing WS08R2 on the computer directly. WAY better performance. They probably don’t support hardware virtualization…

Good luck!

By: John Mastrianni

John Mastrianni — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:38:41 +0000

Tony,

I bought your MS Press 70-642 Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure and would like to know how to set up the lab using Virtual PC 2007…

I have two Dell Latitude laptops running XP Pro SP3 with enough hard drive space that I should be able to install both Virtual PC 2007 and Windows Server 2008 on…they will be connected to each other via a 4-port Netgear switch…

Where can I get a free copy of Windows Server 2008 to use for the lab?…and do you have any suggestions on ensuring that the lab software don’t mess up these two laptops (I use both of them for business purposes)?

Thanks,

John Mastrianni

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:15:28 +0000

All you have to do is to start the virtual machine, enable incoming Remote Desktop connections on your Windows 7 Virtual Machine, and then connect to the VM using Remote Desktop. Aero will work in the Remote Desktop session.

By: great comparison

great comparison — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:16:56 +0000

please inform me when virtulbox support aero in Windows 7