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[ShadowFox]

SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft on Wednesday detailed changes to its Virtual Server plans, announcing it will shift its next update of the software from a maintenance release to a paid upgrade.

The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker, which had earlier announced plans to issue a service pack for Virtual Server 2005, said it will instead release a product in the fourth quarter of this year known as Virtual Server 2005 R2. Microsoft said the new version, already in beta testing, will offer improvements to performance and availability.

"There are a number of new features in the product we're introducing that make this much more full featured and robust...than a service pack," Microsoft group program manager Mark Kieffer said in a presentation at the Intel Developer Forum here.

Virtualization software such as Microsoft's Virtual Server, EMC's VMware and XenSource's Xen lets a server simultaneously run multiple operating systems. Advocates argue that virtualization lets companies reduce the number of servers they need by letting jobs run more efficiency on a smaller number of machines.

Next year, Microsoft will issue another, larger update to the Virtual Server product, the company said. A beta version of that update is planned for the first half of the year and a final release slated for the second half of 2006.

In a keynote address earlier Wednesday, Intel general manager Pat Gelsinger demonstrated an early version of that next-generation Virtual Server release, which he called Virtual Server 2006, saying the software will support Intel's VT, a chip feature that makes virtualization simpler and faster. Microsoft said the software also will support Advanced Micro Devices' equivalent to VT, called Pacifica.

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[Visentinel]

I tried out Virtual Server on Windows 2003 Enterprise, I didint create any actual Virtual Machines coz i was running Win2k3 in MS Virtual PC lol but i had a look at the admin Interface and features, This is definetly something to Follow

Iv always liked Connectix VPC much more than Vmware and now MS own that to lol.

[ShadowFox]

I've never had tho opportunity to try 2k3 or virtual server

[Visentinel]

Well by your sig your PC is Just fine to do it, but i Suggest you get another 512mb stick that 160mb ram free isnt going to fare well with system performance while running a second OS in VPC LOL

[ShadowFox]

lol if I had the money, man I'd have another stick in a heartbeat!