Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Released to Web

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Today we released Service Pack 1 for Virtual Server 2005 R2 to the web.

What's new in Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1?

  • Support for Hardware-Assisted Virtualization
  • Support for additional guest and host operating systems
  • VHD Mount command-line tool and APIs
  • Improved scalability support (Up to 256 GB of memory, Up to 512 VMs etc)
  • Interoperability with Volume Shadow Copy Service 
  • Service Publication using Active Directory Service Connection Points
  • Installation of Linux guests on a SCSI virtual hard drive
  • Default size increased to 127 GB for dynamically expanding virtual hard disks
  • VMRC ActiveX control now uses the Internet Explorer Security Zones 
  • Host clustering whitepaper

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