dgk wrote:

> I want to run a SharePoint virtual machine:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
> on my new Win7 box. Do I use some Hyper-V thing or is virtual PC or
> virtual Server enough?

The only supported Microsoft virtualization product on Windows 7 is the new
Windows Virtual PC, though Virtual PC 2007 will also run.

Hyper-V will only run on a Server 2008 host.



Virtual Server will not install on Windows 7 unless you jump through some hoops
(and even then will not support SCSI disks).

VMWare Player and VMWare Server are both free, and both will run on Windows 7
(as will VMWare Workstation, not free).

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Visual C++ MVP

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:25:25 -0500, David Wilkinson
<no-reply@newsgroup> wrote:

>dgk wrote:

>> I want to run a SharePoint virtual machine:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>>
>> on my new Win7 box. Do I use some Hyper-V thing or is virtual PC or
>> virtual Server enough?

>
>The only supported Microsoft virtualization product on Windows 7 is the new
>Windows Virtual PC, though Virtual PC 2007 will also run.
>
>Hyper-V will only run on a Server 2008 host.
>
>Virtual Server will not install on Windows 7 unless you jump through some hoops
>(and even then will not support SCSI disks).
>
>VMWare Player and VMWare Server are both free, and both will run on Windows 7
>(as will VMWare Workstation, not free).

I tried installing Virtual PC and it told me that it wasn't supported
on this edition of Win7. Since I have ultimate, I figured no go.

Will VMWare Player work with the MS SharePoint virtual disk?

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:57:48 +0100, "RCan" <noospam@newsgroup> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>you can install the Virtual PC for Windows 7 ->
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx
>
>as far as I'm aware the Sharepoint 2010 (which is really great product, but
>not yet finished) VHD can only be downloaded as x64 architecture. If so, you
>cannot use Virtual PC here and you should definitly use Hyper-V which really
>rocks from performance perspective and Sharepoint needs really the boost ;-)
>
>Regards
>Ramazan

But hyper-v is only Win 2008 or 2008 R2, right?

"dgk" <dgk@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:57:48 +0100, "RCan" <noospam@newsgroup> wrote:
>

>>Hi,
>>
>>you can install the Virtual PC for Windows 7 ->
>>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx
>>
>>as far as I'm aware the Sharepoint 2010 (which is really great product,
>>but
>>not yet finished) VHD can only be downloaded as x64 architecture. If so,
>>you
>>cannot use Virtual PC here and you should definitly use Hyper-V which
>>really
>>rocks from performance perspective and Sharepoint needs really the boost
>>;-)
>>
>>Regards
>>Ramazan

>
>
> But hyper-v is only Win 2008 or 2008 R2, right?

Correct. And that is what you need to really run Sharepoint Server, as
Razaman pointed out. Running a server vm on a client OS is not a great idea
for anything other than proof on concept or as a learning experience.

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:33:26 +0100, "RCan" <noospam@newsgroup> wrote:

>"dgk" <dgk@newsgroup> wrote

>> But hyper-v is only Win 2008 or 2008 R2, right?

>
>yes and in standalone hyper-v R2 server which is for free and does have many
>great capabilities already included (a.e. clustering).
>
>Download :
>http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-ser...ow-to-get.aspx
>
>PS : Then you only need to be aware that you need to licenses each guest not
>as a standard or enterprise version which had already included virtual OS
>instance licenses (standard 1/enterprise 4/datacenter UNLIMITED) !
>

And when you install Hyper-V you lose one physical PC in the process
because the stand-alone (free) Hyper-V PC cannot do anything else.....

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)