After Ben’s post Virtual Server 2005 on Windows Server 2008 core, Jeff Woolsey has come to the party with a “How to” post.  Sweet.  Just a heads up, the post is how to install Virtual Server on regular Windows Server 2008 - not Server Core.

You can read more in Jeff’s post “Installing Virtual Server R2 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 Beta 3“, and a snippet is below:

If you’re trying to run Virtual Server R2 SP1 on Window Server 2008 Beta 3, it does work. However, there are three steps for success. You need to:

  1. Add the IIS role with the correct settings for Virtual Server.
  2. Install Virtual Server R2 SP1.
  3. Run IE elevated as an Administrator to access the Virtual Server Administration Page. To run IE elevated, right click on IE and select Run as Administrator. (BTW: If you don’t do this, IE will quit with an error. This is a known issue and a fix is being investigated.)

Since the first step, adding the IIS role, requires specific settings to be enabled, I thought I’d cover this first step in detail.