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Hello,

I am currently undertaking my first course in server 2008 exam 70-642. I have ordered the book for £30 so will start going though that when it arrives.

I am looking at using Server 2008 in a virtual enviroment on my laptop.

Can anyone explain how i can get this setup and what i need to download.

I have seen Microsoft Virtual PC and VMWare ??? which should i be using.

It just seems a good idea to go virtual as i have no spare computers to install server 2008 on and at work we are still on server 2003.

Any infomation would be great.

Thanks Ben :)
 
Virtual PC with 2008 OS will be fine. But remember to make sure the 2008 OS is 32 bit as the "cpu" in virtual pc only lets you use 32 bit OSs. As far as I'm aware.
 
If you're using Server 2008, you ought to be using Hyper-V. It makes Virtual PC / Virtual Server / VMWare look positively clunky! In my opinion of course

edit: Whoops, you mean virtualising Server 2008 itself! In that case I'd go for MS Virtual Server, or dual boot
 
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Virtualbox works well with Server 2008, but you need a decent amount of RAM to get it working nicely. 2008 will run with 512 memory but it aint pretty, the more you can afford the better.
 
All i wanna do is run windows server 2008 on my laptop in a virtual enviroment so i dont have to format or dual boot my current windows 7 install.

My laptop specs are Core 2 Duo P7450 2.13Ghz 1066FSB and 3Mb L2 cache with 4Gb RAM.

I have downloaded and installed windows virtual PC, where can i get a download of server 2008 ? is it just a ISO i download and load into virtual server ??

Thanks Ben
 
Give VMWare player a go. That supports 32-Bit and 64-Bit guest operating systems. Windows Server 2008 R2 only comes in 64-Bit so you are pretty much stuck using VMWare if you want to use 2008R2. The original Server 2008 does come in both flavours.

Here is a link to VMWare player

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
 
Server 2008 R2 is 64-bit only.

edit - Lucifurr beat me to it. Anyway I can't speak for VMware but I've run Server 2008 R2 in a virtualbox VM no problems. Just create a virtual disk, say 10GB, and mount the Server 2008 iso and start the machine. You'll go through the install process as normal. If you have 4GB of RAM I'd give the VM 1.5GB and it should run quite nicely for testing purposes.
 
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BEN_UK said:
Hello,

I am currently undertaking my first course in server 2008 exam 70-642. I have ordered the book for £30 so will start going though that when it arrives.


Thanks Ben :)
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Which other courses are in involved for your goal out of interest ?

Thx jay.
 
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