RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Virtual Server 2005

[Brian Desmond]

The newsgroup is setup. Microsoft.public.virtualserver – it’s on msnews. I post there.   To connect a virtual network to your LAN, you need to map it to a NIC in your PC. If your thought process is to do NAT for a whole virtual network, you need to setup a router server. I just have an image of a Win2k3 box with ISA04 installed that I use for this purpose. You can have up to four NICs in a virtual server connected to four different networks.   You can connect any machine you want to a virtual network so long as it recognizes the emulated NIC   Here’s how I dupe virtual machines:   Create a master image, sysprep it, shut it down. Mark the vhd as read-only I then create virtual hard disks with the “Differencing” option, using this sysprepp’ed vhd as the base I attach the new virtual servers to these disks   What a differencing disk does is only save the changes to the base file. You mark the base read only because if the base is modified this will trickle up and all your servers will be hosed.   Thanks.   --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payton on the web! www.wpcp.org   v - 773.534.0034 x135 f - 773.534.8101   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah Eiger Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Virtual Server 2005   Hello:   Is anyone using Virtual Server 2005? I am running a TechNet demo copy and had some questions. Documentation and support has been spotty (e.g., the newsgroup is not up and running yet). Here are a few questions. Any thoughts or pointers to web resources appreciated.   -       I can’t seem to figure out how you would set up a virtual network (using a virtual w2k3 server for dns, dhcp, etc.) and then route that out to the Internet. I guess one would need a virtual router/gateway. I think the virtual DHCP server does this. -       Is it possible to setup a virtual network that could also interact with other OS machines (e.g., Linux, MacOS X, etc.). I want to setup a virtual Windows network but also allow other OS machines to access file and directory services and Exchange. -       How would you duplicate virtual machines? It seems that once you have built a single W2k3 server and patched it, you could simply copy it and then sysprep it.   Any thoughts? Thanks.   -- nme