How does this sound?

PawNtheSandman

My home system runs XP Home. I build a new box and put XP Pro on it. I am going to run Virtual PC on the XP Home box, and install Server 2003 through Virtual PC onto a seperate partition of the HD. Then I will use Server 2003 through Virtual PC and test the results (IE: policy changes, scripts) on the XP Pro box.

Now how should I configure this? Should I put a 2nd network card in the "server" and run a crossover cable to the XP Pro machine? or since I have a spare hub, connect both machines to that?

Suggestions?

lazyart

It would work, but I would upgrade XP Home to Pro, then use the second box as the server....

PawNtheSandman

I am using a 120 day eval version of XP Pro which is why I am not upgrading my current system. I have plenty of computers around so in theory I could set up a seperate XP Pro and Server 03 box, but I do not have enough power strips for all the boxes. I am doing all this in my bedroom.

EverythingPCowner

If your using virtual machines...why partition?

rossonieri#1

EverythingPCowner wrote:

If your using virtual machines...why partition?

so the host machine doesnt suffer from the heavy load caused by guest os drives activities...
put lots of RAM over there.. and have fun