[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS.  Size indeed matters not.] Vmware settings for SBS 2008 - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Wed, May 28 2008 19:39 bradley

Vmware settings for SBS 2008

On VMware Workstation I used Win 2k8 64bit Expermental template as is.

I pointed the cdrom to the location of the ISA rather than using a burned in cdrom (it loads faster that way)

I gave it a 60 gig harddrive

4 gigs of ram (this box has 6 gigs total, and another 1 gig is for a Virtual Vista)

Bridged NIC

Two processors and everything else plain vanilla

 

HyperV can be used and you have to use legacy nic.  I'll see if I can steal a post from Charlie Russel on the HyperV how to.

But that's the basic vmware workstation setup that I did to run SBS 2008 on a virtual setup.

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# re: Vmware settings for SBS 2008

Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:58 AM by webdesign

Wow nice VM set up ! how does the SBS2008 server perform ? just curious !

# re: Vmware settings for SBS 2008

Friday, May 30, 2008 7:51 AM by Clas

About installing SBS2008 on Hyper-V.

I installed the Integraion Components when the sbs installation stopped because a "no nic warning"

Rebooted and then the installation work fine.

So no need to use a legacy nic.

# re: Vmware settings for SBS 2008

Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:30 PM by Ben

Hi, I am doing the same on a vista host, i have a error it tells me the nic isnt installed and cant continue?  any ideas i have it set to bridged

# re: Vmware settings for SBS 2008

Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:39 AM by al

I just tried setting up SBS 08 on VMware workstation but since it's a 64 bit it will not work on any of my servers. Is there a workaround to this?