Features in Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 is released and now available for download. Here are few of the updates made in SP1

Support for Hardware-Assisted Virtualization (Both Intel VT and AMD V)
Support for additional guest and host operating systems
Support for more than 64 virtual machines on x64 hosts. Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 now supports up to 256GB of physical memory and can run up to 512 virtual machines
VHD Mount command-line tool and APIs which allows you to mount a VHD file as a virtual disk on your host operations system.
Improved scalability support (Up to 256 GB of memory, Up to 512 VMs etc)
Interoperability with Volume Shadow Copy Service
Service Publication using Active Directory Service Connection Points
Virtual SCSI hard drive for installing Linux guests
Default size increased to 127 GB from 16GB for dynamically expanding virtual hard disks
VMRC ActiveX control now uses the Internet Explorer Security Zones
New VMRC client option to enable video stretch in full screen mode
Host clustering / Quick Migration whitepaper
IVMGuestOS::Get_OSName property now returns more operating system information

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Shailesh said:

August 24th, 2007 at 3:54 am

Hey Ashwin,

Thanks for the info.
Shailesh
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Amit said:

August 26th, 2009 at 1:34 am

Hello Ashwin,

I want to know that if I turned on Intel VT option from BIOS of my server,Can I install 64-bit Windows OS as guest OS?

Thanks
Amit…..