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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Is Solid Solution for Windows


By: Jason Brooks
2006-02-20
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 carries out its virtualization chores about as well as competing products from VMware. However, Microsoft's server virtualization solution still lags in certain key areas— most notably, support for host and gue

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Evaluation Shortlist

Microsofts Virtual PC 2004 Provides functionality thats roughly on par with VMware Workstation, although only for Windows hosts (www.microsoft.com)

VMwares Player The free Player runs the same VM images as the rest of the VMware line, but its editing capabilities are limited to making changes in the text file that describe the VM

VMwares Server and ESX Server These products compete with Virtual Server 2005 R2 and offer effective deployment options for VMs created with VMware Workstation (www.vmware.com )

The Xen hypervisor project Productized by XenSource and set to ship with a handful of Linux distributions, hypervisor is an emerging alternative to the offerings of VMware and Microsoft (www.xensource.com)

Senior Analyst Jason Brooks can be reached at jason_brooks@ziffdavis.com.

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