Windows Home Server in VMware

How do I install Windows Home Server in VMware Workstation? | Virtualization Coach | TechRepublic.com: "How do I install Windows Home Server in VMware Workstation?"

I started trying to install Windows Home Server in VMware Server 2.0 and ran into a lot of issues. Even when following parts of the above link and then thinking I had the rest... nope. It bit me in the ass again. So I went back to the link and followed through again from where I left off... sure enough, I missed a step.

Thank GOODNESS TechRepublic and, more importantly, Steven Warren wrote this thing up!! Granted, it's for VMware Workstation, but it works just as well for VMware Server.

My whole thing, aside from the version I'm trying out being a 120 Day Trial, is that I have an older Dell Server that is pretty decent still. It has 4GB of RAM and a 2.26GHz XEON CPU with HyperThreading. So, from a server perspective... at least for my personal needs, it's pretty solid even if it *is* a little long in the tooth. So I was thinking I may need to install WHS in a VM in order to still use my server for other server stuff, especially running VMware for testing out other things.

Well, my install of WHS has finished and it turns out that it's essentially Windows 2003 Server and you *can* get to the console. I tried installing VMware Server on it, but I forgot you can't install VMware inside a VM. However, WHS didn't seem to care at all, so I'm thinking that I may actually be able to run WHS as my main OS and not lose the rest of my server's capabilities and resources.

I will certainly be posting more as I learn more and use WHS, but my thought was this: For my own personal needs, W2K8 Server is simply too much and obviously overly complex for the simple things I want to accomplish. WHS seems to do ALL of the things I want to do with a home server, but I was worried I would lose the ability to use VMware and test new operating systems, etc... after all, I *am* still a geek, and I *do* need to be able to mess around, but I didn't want to have to try and blunder through W2K8 to make it an unsecured file server... besides, I haven't found an easy way to attach a 360 to my W2K8 server to serve up media... and WHS supposedly does that in spades (we'll see).

See ya on the flip side.