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Final Post on That VMware Server on Windows 2008 Server Core Thing

I built a Server 2008 box and tried the install that I’ve been babbling about.

Failed.

VMware Server 2 on Win 2k8 Server Core – Part 2

Last week I rambled out the following:

Why not run VMware Server 2 on Windows 2008 Server Core? Core is lean and mean with no GUI and would free up more resources to be used by my VM clients. I’m reasonably certain it’ll run on the hardware, I’m just not sure if it’ll host VMware Server

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VMware Server 2 on Windows 2008 Server Core?

You know how when you have a possibly zany idea you first do some web searches to see if anyone has already done it? That’s where I’m at with this one… problem is that I haven’t found anyone who’s done it yet!

I currently run VMware Server 2.0 on an older server. It all works OK,

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Vista and Windows 2008 Service Pack 2 BETA

As announced at the Vista Team Blog, brave folks and testers can now get their hands on the Service Pack 2 beta for Vista and Windows 2008. While it was announced earlier in the week, the files just recently showed up.

Note: You must have Service Pack 1 already installed. This is not a cumulative

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Server 2008 Changing with SP2

From the Server Core blog:

[Optional Features:]

Subset of .NET Framework 2.0
Subset of .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 – WCF, WF, and LINQ
Windows PowerShell
ASP.NET and additional IIS support – the only IIS feature not available in Server Core is the management GUI

[...]

Now to wait to learn what “subset” will mean.

As a reminder, Server “Core” is the flavor

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