ADS 1.1 and VSMT on 64-bit hosts

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I was having a few emails back-and-forth yesterday as someone was struggling with VSMT (now part of ADS as of version 1.1) installed on one 64-bit host, with Virtual Server 2005 R2 64-bit edition running on a seperate Windows Server 2003 x64 host.

A couple of learnings came to light - first, and one that I often forget when building demo environments is that it is necessary to install an admin-only install of Virtual Server on the ADS machine itself (assuming it is not the same machine as your Virtual Server host).

The second gotcha I didn't realise until seeing the small-print was that you cannot install/run ADS on a 64-bit host. The only two solutions open are to either install a 32-bit Windows Server 2003 EE for the ADS machine, or to run ADS in a Virtual Machine.