| Moving Virtual Machines Between Virtual PC And Virtual Server |
| Wednesday, 22 February 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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When you move a virtual machine from Virtual PC to Virtual Server (or from Virtual Server to Virtual PC) you will get a warning message stating that the virtual machine was made by a different program and 'may not work'. A number of people have had questions about this - so I will attempt to answer them here. 1. What are the potential problems moving a Virtual PC virtual machine to Virtual Server? Virtual Server does not emulate a sound card. That is about it. 2. What are the potential problems when moving a Virtual Server virtual machine to Virtual PC? There are two problems here. First - Virtual PC does not emulate a SCSI controller; so any SCSI virtual hard disks will not appear when the virtual machine is booted. Second - Virtual PC has a more limited set of IDE configurations that it can support than Virtual Server (only one CD, etc...). If a Virtual Server virtual machine has an IDE configuration that is not supported under Virtual PC - we will attempt to move the hard disks and CD's around in order to make things work - however there may be cases where IDE devices will not appear (for example - if you configured two CDROMs - only one will appear under Virtual PC). Read on here.
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