Windows Home Server Install
Posted: 21. Sep 2009, 22:19
I thought I'd just post a quick note to say that after failing miserably to install Windows Home Server as a guest under Windows 7 64 bit using both Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare, the install under Virtual box went without a hitch and works perfectly! Great job to all the contributors.
The issue I had with Virtual PC 2007 was that the NIC emulation software initially gave a connection speed just above glacial creep. When I sorted that (disabling Task Offload parameters) I found that when WHS console tried to configure my router for web access, it interfered with the NIC and cut off Lan connection altogether.
The issue with VMWare was that it had to use SCSI emulation drivers to install to the virtual hard disk, but WHS just hung even after loading drivers on F6 in the OS rebooot phase of the installation.
Virtualbox rocks!
The issue I had with Virtual PC 2007 was that the NIC emulation software initially gave a connection speed just above glacial creep. When I sorted that (disabling Task Offload parameters) I found that when WHS console tried to configure my router for web access, it interfered with the NIC and cut off Lan connection altogether.
The issue with VMWare was that it had to use SCSI emulation drivers to install to the virtual hard disk, but WHS just hung even after loading drivers on F6 in the OS rebooot phase of the installation.
Virtualbox rocks!
