Updated: July 9, 2020 (September 27, 2004)
Analyst ReportVirtual Server 2005 Supports Testing and Flexibility
Virtual Server 2005 will be generally available in Oct. 2004. The product creates a virtual environment on a host OS so that a guest OS and application can run as if they had their own dedicated computer. Customers can use Virtual Server for development and testing of new applications, or to run older applications on new servers. However, some tools required to manage production servers will not be available for several months, and even though the environment is virtual, all the licenses for each software installation on each virtual machine must be real.
Virtualization Supports Testing and Flexibility
Since acquiring Connectix in Feb. 2003, Microsoft has shipped Virtual PC for Mac, which creates a virtual Windows environment on Mac OS X, and Virtual PC 2004, which creates a virtual PC environment on Windows 2000 and XP Professional. (For an overview of Virtual PC and the basic architecture of the virtualization technology, see “First Virtual PC Product Released” on page 11 of the Dec. 2003 Update.) Now Microsoft is adding Virtual Server 2005 to help customers create virtual servers on Windows Server 2003.
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