Comments on: Using Virtual Server 2005 to run a virtual machine on Windows Home Server http://www.asktheadmin.com/2009/03/using-virtual-server-2005-to-run-a-virtual-machine-on-windows-home-server.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:08:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com http://www.asktheadmin.com/2009/03/using-virtual-server-2005-to-run-a-virtual-machine-on-windows-home-server.html/comment-page-1#comment-9844 Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:12:54 +0000 http://www.asktheadmin.com/?p=1982#comment-9844 Since this post I have been running VM off off my WHS to do a few tasks - namely bit torrents! It works awesome and I have not had any major hiccups yet! I am going to bump this post back up to the top - Jeff we would love to see more posts from you! Since this post I have been running VM off off my WHS to do a few tasks – namely bit torrents! It works awesome and I have not had any major hiccups yet!

I am going to bump this post back up to the top – Jeff we would love to see more posts from you!

]]> By: JeffAlexander http://www.asktheadmin.com/2009/03/using-virtual-server-2005-to-run-a-virtual-machine-on-windows-home-server.html/comment-page-1#comment-9841 JeffAlexander Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:03:15 +0000 http://www.asktheadmin.com/?p=1982#comment-9841 Yes both my vmc and my vhd are in a shared folder on the WHS. I have had 2 instances where WHS reported a file conflict with the virtual machine files. I don't remember which one. The first one went away before I could fully investigate and the second one went away after I rebooted the server to add a drive. I don't duplicate the share since that would just cause problems. My primary use for this virtual machine is to download podcasts to my podcast share on WHS. It runs unattended 99% of the time. When I do have to log in to that VM I use remote desktop and it is fairly responsive and feels like a real machine. I have contemplated attaching a USB drive and running the image off the drive because of the file conflicts but so far they haven't forced me to do that. I'll post an update if I end up moving it off. Yes both my vmc and my vhd are in a shared folder on the WHS.

I have had 2 instances where WHS reported a file conflict with the virtual machine files. I don’t remember which one. The first one went away before I could fully investigate and the second one went away after I rebooted the server to add a drive. I don’t duplicate the share since that would just cause problems.

My primary use for this virtual machine is to download podcasts to my podcast share on WHS. It runs unattended 99% of the time. When I do have to log in to that VM I use remote desktop and it is fairly responsive and feels like a real machine.

I have contemplated attaching a USB drive and running the image off the drive because of the file conflicts but so far they haven’t forced me to do that. I’ll post an update if I end up moving it off.

]]> By: Rick http://www.asktheadmin.com/2009/03/using-virtual-server-2005-to-run-a-virtual-machine-on-windows-home-server.html/comment-page-1#comment-9840 Rick Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:30:47 +0000 http://www.asktheadmin.com/?p=1982#comment-9840 So, to clarify, are your VM's located on a drive that's in the WHS pool? If so have you ran into any problems with that? How's the performance? I've read that you should run the VM's on a drive that's outside the pool, however, if the VM is located in a non duplicated share, I don't see why it wouldn't work. So, to clarify, are your VM’s located on a drive that’s in the WHS pool? If so have you ran into any problems with that? How’s the performance? I’ve read that you should run the VM’s on a drive that’s outside the pool, however, if the VM is located in a non duplicated share, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

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