On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:03:16 -0600, G. Morgan <usenet_abuse@newsgroup> wrote:

>I hear a lot of good things about Windows Home Server, and have d/l the trial
>and the Power Pack 3 Beta. I would like to see full functionality and
>auto-starting if the host O/S is Win7 and WHS runs on a VM, and would this be
>advisable? I plan to dedicate a machine if I like it and buy it, but would
>putting it in a VM have any disadvantages? How much machine will I need? I
>still want to use Win7 for everyday tasks.

Thanks for the replies everyone. It looks like a bad idea.

I think I'll just dual boot Win7 from it's own 250GB drive, and give it a
partition for WHS to use (backup's and shares) when WHS boots to a 1.5 TB
drive. I just use the boot menu in my BIOS to keep it simple.

G. Morgan wrote:

> Thanks for the replies everyone. It looks like a bad idea.
>
> I think I'll just dual boot Win7 from it's own 250GB drive, and give it a
> partition for WHS to use (backup's and shares) when WHS boots to a 1.5 TB
> drive. I just use the boot menu in my BIOS to keep it simple.

How is that going to work? Don't you want/need your WHS to be running all the
time (or at least when your Windows 7 install is running)?

Personally I think it is a big mistake for MS not to support WHS in a virtual
environment. It's based on server 2003 which *is* supported as a guest.

I also think it is a mistake not to support Virtual Server on a Windows 7 host.

Actually, both these scenarios very likely work. But if getting Virtual Server
to run on Windows 7 is too much of a pain (it really is a pain), there is always
the free VMWare Server.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:07:45 -0500, David Wilkinson <no-reply@newsgroup>
wrote:

> there is always
>the free VMWare Server.

I'm d/l'ing it now. I'll give that a shot, thanks.

G. Morgan wrote:

> WHS *does* have a print server.. right?

No it doesn't. And installing printer drivers, like many things you would like
to do in WHS, is not supported. It might work, but the drivers for many consumer
printers will not install on a server OS.

What I do is have the host be the print server.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:48:19 -0500, David Wilkinson <no-reply@newsgroup>
wrote:

>G. Morgan wrote:

>> WHS *does* have a print server.. right?

>
>No it doesn't. And installing printer drivers, like many things you would like
>to do in WHS, is not supported. It might work, but the drivers for many consumer
>printers will not install on a server OS.
>
>What I do is have the host be the print server.

Wonderful....

There goes my idea of building a dedicated Atom based, low power server, if I
have to run a host OS.

I also have a Server 2008 R2 key, good for 6 months I think. Would I be
better off with that? (I'm a newbie with server OSes)

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:48:19 -0500, David Wilkinson <no-reply@newsgroup>
wrote:

>No it doesn't. And installing printer drivers, like many things you would like
>to do in WHS, is not supported. It might work, but the drivers for many consumer
>printers will not install on a server OS.

I found this: http://mswhs.com/2007/06/06/9/

Now I need to find out which group Phillip is posting in!

G. Morgan wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:48:19 -0500, David Wilkinson <no-reply@newsgroup>
> wrote:
>

>> No it doesn't. And installing printer drivers, like many things you would like
>> to do in WHS, is not supported. It might work, but the drivers for many consumer
>> printers will not install on a server OS.

>
>
> I found this: http://mswhs.com/2007/06/06/9/

As I said, you may get it to work. But installing any print driver in WHS is not
officially supported.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

G. Morgan wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:48:19 -0500, David Wilkinson <no-reply@newsgroup>
> wrote:
>

>> G. Morgan wrote:

>>> WHS *does* have a print server.. right?

>> No it doesn't. And installing printer drivers, like many things you would like
>> to do in WHS, is not supported. It might work, but the drivers for many consumer
>> printers will not install on a server OS.
>>
>> What I do is have the host be the print server.

>
> Wonderful....
>
> There goes my idea of building a dedicated Atom based, low power server, if I
> have to run a host OS.

One of the advantages of running WHS in a virtual machine is that you do not
need to do anything unsupported in the WHS (except run it in a virtual machine...).

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP