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Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 (”Codenamed Longhorn) on VMWare ESX 3.0.1

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I decided to off load all my VM’s that were locally on my machine to a VMWare ESX 3.0.1 box, and one of the machines installed was Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 (”Codenamed Longhorn”). Instead of just running VMWare Converter on the machine, I decided I would start from scratch on an ESX box.

First, I created the VM, and copies the ISO to my datastore. Pointed the CD to the ISO and was on my way. Powered on the VM and immediatly the Server installation starts, first thing I notice is it still says Longhorn.. Maybe they don’t trust that Server 2008 will actually come out in 2008? So on we go.. and whammmm what the hell, it says no device driver. Luckily http://www.google.com is nice enough to give us this link http://sti.epfl.ch/intranet/informatique/virtualisation/drivers-vista-rtm-esx.flp.zip which will give you the drivers you need to start the install. So I download, unzip the flp image, and scp it to my datastore, and point the floppy drive to the flp. Browse to A and voila, it starts the rest of the install. I put in my good ol’ serial number provided by Microsoft and again continue on my journy. Oh yeah, did I mention I love the fact that you can “Set it and Forget it” (I hope that isn’t copywritten by the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie).

 

 I check back a while later and it’s done.. I bring it up, log in and set the Admin password. Now it’s time for DCPROMO and all the other fun things you have to install on a real test enviroment. I will be installing the following services:

AD, DHCP, DNS, CA, RADIUS, RAS, IIS, and a few others to muck with..

 Later-on folks

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