bhavesh Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 Hi guyshow are you ..i m new to this forum.. and i dont know if many of you might be usingvirtual operating systems.. or guest OS as M$ calls 'em..now here is the problemI want to prepare for my Microsoft Exchange Exam..I just have one machine.. and cannot arrange or afford another...The specs of my current box areHardware Specs:P4 2.8 HTIntel Original 865GBF2 chips of 512 MB PC3200 DDR RAM -- that makes it 1 GB RAMNetwork Adapter 100/10M Ethernet PCI AdapterATI Radeon 9200SESound Blaster Live! 5.1 Sound Card2 80 GB IDE SATA Seagate Drives1 40 GB IDE ATA Samsung Drive52x32x52x LG CDRWSoftware Specs:Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition Build 3790.srvr2.030624-1700,Service Pack v. 1023DirectX 9.0b (4.09.000.0902)Q147222 HotFix Installedand there are no updates either critical or normal to be installed thruwindows update as of now..Now lets come straight to the point... what I want..1. To run multiple Guest OS, mainly Windows 2000 Professional SP3 andWindows XP SP1 thru Microsoft Virtual PC 5.2/Microsoft Virtual Server2005 Beta...2. To network the Host OS and the Guest OS ON WINDOWS 2003 ENTERPRISESERVER3. To work out/figure out or you can say merely practice all thefeatures of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 in a domain environment underWindows 20003 Enterprise Edition... in a networked environment withinVirtual PCs... i.e. all of those are able to ping each other sharefiles... login accounts.. rights.. shares send and receive mails.. applypolicies etc... etc.. I used Connectix Virtual PC 5.2, Microsoft Virtual PC 5.2 but i couldnot connect the Guest OS and the Host OSRecently i came to know that Microsoft released a Beta version of itsMicrosoft Virtual Server 2005..So i got my hands on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Beta thru IRC... (tsktsk.. try packetnews.. BetasIRC...hush hush)I installed and configured that on my Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition..but i still face the same **** problem that i am not able to connect theHost OS and the Guest OS thru TCP/IPBut i tried using Virtual PC 5.2 on Windows 2000 and Windows XP .. therewere no problems... and my network card gave me a connected session andstarted sending and receiving bytes like any normal network device... But no avail in Windows 20003 Enterprise Edition... The installationgoes on very smoothly.. Virtual Server 2005 or Virtual PC 5.2 bothinstall their service drivers and ask for that Digital Signing stuff..and all those things go on normally... my network card works normally assuch.. but i dont know why it cannot connect with the Guest OS.. thoughit can do so thru other Operation Systems... but not under the Windows2003 Enterprise Edition Environment...Is there anyway.. this can be done??This is the version of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Beta...Virtual Server version 1.1.445.0 EE Administration Website version 1.1.445.0But i just cant figure out why i am not able to network my Guest OS andmy Host OS on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition...Any kind of support is eagerly awaited...and thanks a lot.. for your time.. as you got this far reading myquery... thanks againHere is a comprehensive report of my system.. that includes everything .. versions of dlls... softwares this that hardware... memory dumps etc.. everything in ultra detail... http://www22.brinkster.com/totallylegal/report.zipthanks a lot for your time guys..Regards,Bhavesh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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