Hey Bo and Bill, I set things up exactly as you both suggested, and
EVERYTHING works perfect! Thank you both very much again!
I want to add one more thing for anyone reading this, since you probably
already (and hopefully) have decent technical skills: BUILD YOUR OWN
COMPUTERS, PERIOD. I've described most of the particulars of my current rig
at home that I built about 2 months ago, and I paid a total of USD$984.71
for everything, case, power supply, "soup to nuts", the works. Only items I
carried over were my mouse and keyboard.
Just a couple of minutes ago, I "built" a similar system on Dell's website,
using the Mid-line XPS systems, and it STILL cost almost $800 more than mine.
Plus, I couldn't upgrade to a 1GB video card, the RAM is 1066 instead of
1333, etc. PLUS, you're stuck with Dell's proprietary piece of junk
motherboards.
Now, you might argue that Dell gives you a better warranty...NOT! EVERY
component in my system comes with a minimum 3 years, except the power supply,
which, let's face it, unless you underpower your system, you will not have a
problem. AND, is that worth $800? I think not!
In summary, if you're comfortable opening up and working inside a system, by
all means stay far, far away from the mainstream manufacturers...you'll make
a better system (which isn't loaded with all the crapware they stuff on it),
and save yourself a ton of cash.
"Mike Porcellana" wrote:
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> Greetings all. I'm studying for my MCSE in Server 2003, and am also a
> Technet Plus subscriber. My machine at home is custom-built, and believe
> that it has plenty of horsepower; Intel Core i7 920 CPU, 6 gigs of DDR3-1333
> RAM, an X58 Gigabyte board, a pair of 150GB RaptorX drives, and a 500GB and a
> 1.5TB SATA drives. Here's what I'd like to setup.
>
> I want to create 2 virtual machines: one running Server 2003 SP1, and one
> running XP Pro. In and of itself, this isn't a problem; I can do this easily
> under Virtual PC 2007, I'd ASSUME I can do this also under Virtual Server.
> But, the issue is this: I need to have both these machines "see" and speak
> to each other in the same domain. In the MCSE literature, they're using the
> Microsoft standard contoso.com domain (which is used in all MS Press books).
> I guess my main issue/question is how to configure the networking options
> BOTH in the Virtual PC program, AND once each VM is running, in each
> machine's network properties settings. I don't think it's critical that
> either machine can "see" the outside world (aka the Internet); I feel that
> would be a bonus.
>
> So folks, do any of you have experience at this? Any and all help is
> immensely appreciated!