First of all:  the username and password for the Sharepoint VHD virtual machine is “Administrator / pass@word1“.  It’s in the readme in red, so I guess they were expecting that question a lot. :)

Anyway, after blogging this morning, it was bugging me about the whole Sharepoint Virtual Server thing.  So I made time to test it under virtual PC.  The good news is, it works.  Some quick snippets from my testing:

  • As expected I got the error “The hardware standard (Virtual Server 2005) for virtual machine “WIN03_MOSS” is not recognized.“
  • So I clicked ok, re opened the virtual machine and ‘voila’ it boots.
  • Just for kicks, I also created a new VMC, pointed to the existing VHD, and it worked too
  • It’s using Windows 2003 Enterprise edition with SP2
  • the Virtual Machine Additions ver 13.552 installed - so dynamic screen resize works
  • Microsoft Office 2007 is installed
  • Sharepoint/MOSS took a couple of seconds to load initially, but afterwards everything worked fine and as expected.

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So I experimented for a bit, and everything looked ok.  But I might come back and tinker a little more over the next 30 days before the image expires.