I’ve upgraded my main server to the latest Windows Server 2008 build and installed Hyper-V. This box is Quad core with 4GB so it should be fine for running the Hyper-V environment. Hyper-V is an exciting update since it levearges the underlying hardware VM capabilities. For interest I just tried running Windows XP in VirtualPC under Windows XP under a Hyper-V session, and it works! and is surprinsingly fast, or at least no slower than natively.
What is amazing to me is that this relatively cheap commodity box combined with the Windows 2008/Hyper-V combo is akin to a mainframe from 10 years ago, think S/390 with MVS or VM/CMS which would have cost millions.
Anyway, as I find more info I’ll report it here, but its looking good.
