I'm looking at installing either Win2K8 Enterprise or Data Center. I
see that in the MS checklist, they allow license rights for 4 VMs (in
the case of Ent) or unlimited (in the case of DC). Does this mean
that each VM also has to be running Ent or DC editions? I'm a little
confused about that, I was just intending on running Win2K8 standard
in the VM. Do I have to go through the entire OS install like I have
with VS2005 or is there now some way to say 'I want a new VM, go
generate one using Win2K8' and have everything installed?

No. The vms can be other operating systems.

"robro" <rrothberg@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking at installing either Win2K8 Enterprise or Data Center. I
> see that in the MS checklist, they allow license rights for 4 VMs (in
> the case of Ent) or unlimited (in the case of DC). Does this mean
> that each VM also has to be running Ent or DC editions? I'm a little
> confused about that, I was just intending on running Win2K8 standard
> in the VM. Do I have to go through the entire OS install like I have
> with VS2005 or is there now some way to say 'I want a new VM, go
> generate one using Win2K8' and have everything installed?
>

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:55:52 -0700 (PDT), robro <rrothberg@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I'm looking at installing either Win2K8 Enterprise or Data Center. I
>see that in the MS checklist, they allow license rights for 4 VMs (in
>the case of Ent) or unlimited (in the case of DC). Does this mean
>that each VM also has to be running Ent or DC editions? I'm a little
>confused about that, I was just intending on running Win2K8 standard
>in the VM. Do I have to go through the entire OS install like I have
>with VS2005 or is there now some way to say 'I want a new VM, go
>generate one using Win2K8' and have everything installed?

That is never the case. Just think:
How could VS2005 have "built-in" knowledge of the setup of an
operating system not even released when VS2005 was created??
And all the virtualization environments (VPC 2007, VS 2005,
Win2008_HyperV, VMWare products) provide an *emulated* PC hardware
system which to all normal uses works exactly like a physical PC. But
of course you cannot add to the hardware of that PC, it is fixed in
rock so forget about adding devices. For example the video
capabilities are limited to the S3Trio64 graphics (2D) forever.

Once it is set up a guest is like a metal PC with an unformatted disk
drive. No operating system or anything else around.

The dialog while creating a guest system where you select the
operating system (you are planning to use) is only there to tell the
Wizard which settings it should recommend for the guest (RAM amount,
disk size etc). It does NOT EVER put that operating system on the
guest disk....
You have to do that in the normal way.

Bo Berglund

You would install w2k8 Standard in the vm just as you would on a host
computer. Setting up a vm with VS is like specing a new computer.
Afterwards it still needs an OS.

"robro" <rrothberg@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking at installing either Win2K8 Enterprise or Data Center. I
> see that in the MS checklist, they allow license rights for 4 VMs (in
> the case of Ent) or unlimited (in the case of DC). Does this mean
> that each VM also has to be running Ent or DC editions? I'm a little
> confused about that, I was just intending on running Win2K8 standard
> in the VM. Do I have to go through the entire OS install like I have
> with VS2005 or is there now some way to say 'I want a new VM, go
> generate one using Win2K8' and have everything installed?
>

On Mar 29, 3:45 pm, "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnho...@comcast.net> wrote:
> You would install w2k8 Standard in the vm just as you would on a host
> computer. Setting up a vm with VS is like specing a new computer.
> Afterwards it still needs an OS.
>
> "robro" <rrothb...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:d9e8b96f-b31c-4a42-a036-702d1ffd7ebf@8g2000hsu.googlegroups.com...
>
> > I'm looking at installing either Win2K8 Enterprise or Data Center. I
> > see that in the MS checklist, they allow license rights for 4 VMs (in
> > the case of Ent) or unlimited (in the case of DC). Does this mean
> > that each VM also has to be running Ent or DC editions? I'm a little
> > confused about that, I was just intending on running Win2K8 standard
> > in the VM. Do I have to go through the entire OS install like I have
> > with VS2005 or is there now some way to say 'I want a new VM, go
> > generate one using Win2K8' and have everything installed?

Thanks, what exactly does the whole win2k8 VM 4 uses of enterprise or
unlimited DC mean then? I'm trying to understand the licensing issues
of Win2K8 for VMs when installing standard vs enterprise vs data
center.

It means that the operating system you install in the vm is licensed by the
host's license. I have never done it so someone else will need to fill you
in on what you do at activation in such a case.

"robro" <rrothberg@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mar 29, 3:45 pm, "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnho...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> You would install w2k8 Standard in the vm just as you would on a host
>> computer. Setting up a vm with VS is like specing a new computer.
>> Afterwards it still needs an OS.
>>
>> "robro" <rrothb...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:d9e8b96f-b31c-4a42-a036-702d1ffd7ebf@8g2000hsu.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > I'm looking at installing either Win2K8 Enterprise or Data Center. I
>> > see that in the MS checklist, they allow license rights for 4 VMs (in
>> > the case of Ent) or unlimited (in the case of DC). Does this mean
>> > that each VM also has to be running Ent or DC editions? I'm a little
>> > confused about that, I was just intending on running Win2K8 standard
>> > in the VM. Do I have to go through the entire OS install like I have
>> > with VS2005 or is there now some way to say 'I want a new VM, go
>> > generate one using Win2K8' and have everything installed?
>
> Thanks, what exactly does the whole win2k8 VM 4 uses of enterprise or
> unlimited DC mean then? I'm trying to understand the licensing issues
> of Win2K8 for VMs when installing standard vs enterprise vs data
> center.