Virual Server on SBS

Hi,

We have an SBS R2 Standard with 4 gb memory. We need to install a very old
16bit Btrieve application which will be used very occasionally to look
things up.

I'm thinking of installing Microsoft Virtual Server to the SBS box using,
say, 1gb. From there I'll install a virtual copy of Windows 2000 and then
the Btrieve application.

Will this end in tears?

Waggers

 

Are you planning to leave the virtual server running all the time? The one
possible issue I see is that if you don't have a gig of RAM free, it won't
let you start the VM. Of course that only applies if you plan to run the VM
only when you need it.

Personally, I'd hope for a retired desktop I could pull out of the storage
room to use for this.

 

I really doubt you'll need to allocate 1GB for a seldom used 16bit
application. But that's a beauty of Virtual Machine technology - you can
easily tweak the memory (& processor usage) as needed. I'd guess you might
get away with as little as 256mb.

 

Agreed. I don't think you'd need a gig of memory to run a lightly used
win2k server.

Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows Small Business Server 2003:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...f0e5-45c9-aa44-6aac01677fdc1033.mspx?mfr=true

Cheers,

Jason

 

Many thanks for the info Guys.