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Virtual Server 2005 R2 - Virtual Server 2005 R2 is yet another virtual machine software from Microsoft, it's a little bit hard to install and configure as you would need some requirements like IIS for it to work but the benefits are far too great for you not to invest your time in making it work. So what's good in Virtual Server 2005 R2? You can run Linux OS's in contrast to Virtual PC... and for every advantage there's always and opposite yet sometimes less equal disadvantage - again,it's not easy to install, configure and administer...stay tuned as I show you how to make this baby run ... you can download Virtual
Server 2005 R2 from this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/bb738033.aspx

We will now start with the installation of Virtual Server 2005 R2. I'm currently running Windows XP thus we'll be installing IIS 6 - one of the pre-requirements that Virtual Server 2005 R2 needs for it to work in Windows XP... Start your engines ... and the lights are now green ...

Virtual PC is a free virtual machine software that you can download from Microsoft and was one of the earliest virtual machine software available, I still remember way way back when I was still starting with intranet computing and virtual machines, Virtual PC then wasn't still a Microsoft product - yes, Virtual PC was bought by Microsoft to compete then with VMWare ... early images for Microsoft Official Curriculum Courses used Virtual PC which eventually moved to Virtual Server and now Hyper-V... Advantages of using Virtual PC? It's easy to install and easy to create virtual machines ... Disadvantages? You can only install Microsoft OS's which means no Linux,BSD,Solaris or GNU Hurd for you... :D You can download Virtual PC 2007 from this link : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en ...

Installation for Virtual PC is pretty straightforward and easy. And once done with the installation, start the program and then it's time to get down and dirty, time to create a virtual machine that is... and here's how it works ...





















Great! Now after installation you can start setting up your little intranet... stay-tuned as we tackle more virtual machines you can use for your intranet and daily computing needs...

Virtualbox  is a virtual machine software that you can download for free from virtualbox.org, it's created and maintained by Sun Microsystems. The good thing with virtualbox is you can create virtual machines running different platforms e.g. Linux, Solaris, BSD, GNU Hurd and Windows ... you can download virtualbox from this link: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.

The installation of Virtualbox is pretty simple and straightforward, once you've installed Virtualbox comes the fun part - creating virtual machines, and here's how it goes:






















and there you go, you should now start with the installation of whichever Windows OS you choose to install, in this case it's Windows Server 2008...Stay tuned as we tackle other virtual machine software ...