Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Released
Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bc49c7c8-4840-4e67-8dc4-1e6e218acce4&DisplayLang=en
From the release notes...
What's new:
Support for hardware-assisted virtualization technology
Support for greater than 64 virtual machines on x64-based hosts
VHD Mount command-line tool and APIs
Interoperability with Volume Shadow Copy Service
Support for additional guest and host operating systems
Service publication using Active Directory Service Connection Points
Host clustering white paper
Virtual SCSI fix for Linux guests
Larger default size for dynamically expanding virtual hard disks
VMRC ActiveX control and Internet Explorer security zones
New VMRC client option to enable video stretch in full screen mode
IVMGuestOS::Get_OSName property returns more operating system information
On the host/guest support item:
New guest operating system support:
- Windows Vista™ Ultimate (non-production use only)
- Windows Vista™ Business (non-production use only)
- Windows Vista™ Enterprise (non-production use only)
- Windows Server® Code Name "Longhorn" Beta 3 (non-production use only)
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Standard Edition with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Web Edition with Service Pack 2
- OS/2 4.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 7)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (update 8)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (update 4)
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0
- Solaris 10
- Red Hat Linux 9.0
- SuSE Linux 9.3
- SuSE Linux 10.0
- SuSE Linux 10.1
- SuSE Linux 10.2
New host operating system support:
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Standard Edition with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Datacenter Edition with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Standard Edition x64 with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Enterprise Edition x64 with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Datacenter Edition x64 with Service Pack 2