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Virtual Server 2005 vs. Virtual PC 2004

Did you get your copy of Virtual Server yet? You should, it's available on MSDN subscriber downloads. I'm sure many of you too are waiting to see what Virtual Server can do and if it's worth the buy for your production environment. In either case, I wanted to post a few differences between Virtual Server and Virtual PC. The biggest difference is purpose.

Virtual PC is designed primarily for running desktop operating systems & applications in interactive mode. Can Virtual PC run server operating systems? Yes. Will Microsoft support you? No. Virtual Server is designed to run server operating systems & server applications in daemon mode. Other differences:

Virtual PC supports sound. Virtual Server does not.

Virtual Server provides support for SCSI disks (guest drives). Virtual PC does not.

Virtual Server exposes a COM api (with .NET PIAs) for extensibility. Virutal PC does not.

Virtual PC supports shared folders with the host. Virtual Server does not.

Virtual Server supports running guest without an interative session (a daemon). Virtual PC does not.

Well that's a start for now. I'm curious to see if other people can point out more differences.

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