Virtualization on Windows Server 2008
July 31st, 2008 // 1:20 pm @ Amar
One of the features of Windows 2008 I really wanted to try was HyperV. It’s good, faster than Virtual Server, supports HyperVisor etc. etc. However, I have removed the Hyper V Role from my system. The reason being loss of sleep. I just can’t live with it. I know the Hyper V team has given some explaination about the technical problems etc. but to me those are more like excuses. Why will a laptop with Hyper V not go in sleep mode when there are no VM’s running? I can understand that they have kept the priorities of enterprise servers while designing this product, but one of the biggest users of Virtualization are developers, and they don’t have servers which are on 24×7. I would like my laptop to sleep, save power when I put the lid down and myself go to sleep at night. Don’t have the patience to wait for boot up and shutdown times everytime I leave my laptop. At least enable sleep on lid down, so that my hard disks don’t keep spinning and heating up all thru the night.
I tried VMWare Server which was the free version out recently. However, found it a bit of mess with no help file for a first time VMWare user and I was really in no mood to dig up documents to find out how to connect to the VM. I may be tired and sleepy but definitely not very impressed by VMWare Server considering the amount of stuff I have heard about it.
Well, to cut the long story short, I have decided to stick to Virtual PC for a little while, and alternatively go navite. I do have a blazing fast laptop, and a blazing fast server OS, so will try and work without VM’s. Will develop like old school before VM’s came into picture. Will load WSS on my Windows 2008 install and start developing. For MOSS, I will bear the pain of VPC for now till I make up my mind for a nice virtualization software to use.
Category : Windows Server 2008