Using a virtual image as a MOSS dev environment is common and offers some
advantages. Are you using a Microsoft VM image (vmc/vmd) or VMware?
Are all your servers (SQL & MOSS) in the image? If not, you probably won’t
easily connect to a required server not in the image. If they are, you may want
to check what network cards the VM thinks it has, since moving it from one host
to another might change these settings if actual (physical) network cards were
being used. If that’s all fine consider checking your IIS settings for name
resolution issues.
If the image is incomplete or unusable you might choose to create a new VM that
has all the necessary servers, then ask for a backup from the original
configuration and restore that into your VM. This works as easily for VMs as
it does for actual deployments.
As long as your VM has a minimal load (not too many users at once) and enough
RAM it can make a great dev platform. In addition you can put it on a server
that gets backed up every night (to take away your worries) you can either
remote into it or just go in through your browser and use your local copy of
SharePoint Designer.
Jeff
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Mike (Con)
Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 7:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [OzMOSS] Virtual Server Image
I’ve been given a virtual server, an image of another developers MOSS server,
as my dev platform. Are there any tricks to get this working?
Running Central Admin points to the original boxes hostname and fails, and
running the config wizard dies with db connection errors.
Accessing the sites also give DB connection errors.
It looks as if it is trying to connect to the remote box’s DBs (no connection
string info in the logs unfortunately), or doesn’t have permissions for
connections to my Virtual Server’s DBs. I haven’t found any info on the web, so
this doesn’t seem this is the normal way of doing things - so I might be
re-installing?
Any help would be appreciated!
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