> Hi,
>
> We are currently evaluating Virtual Sever 2005. I have two general
> questions: First, I read somewhere in the literature that you should try to
> move/copy/migrate a guest os on to a host server that has the same kind of
> processor as the original virtual host server. Is this true? I ask because I
> can't be sure I would have one availible when a need to move a guest OS
> occurs and I thought the whole point of virtualization was to remove any
> physical hardware dependencies. Second, if I have a host server with a
> physical NIC dedicated to each guest OS and then I need to migrate one of
> these guest OS's to a new machine (virtual host server) what happens to the
> virtual network configuration of the Guest OS. In my senario, my virtual
> machines would be interacting with machines external to the host virtual
> server, and again, I would dedicate one physical NIC to each Guest OS.
>
> I thank you in advance for any guidance or help you may provide.
>
> Sean Flynn

>On Jun 13, 1:46 am, Sean Flynn <Sean (email address - cut out)>
>wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are currently evaluating Virtual Sever 2005. I have two general
>> questions: First, I read somewhere in the literature that you should try to
>> move/copy/migrate a guest os on to a host server that has the same kind of
>> processor as the original virtual host server. Is this true? I ask because I
>> can't be sure I would have one availible when a need to move a guest OS
>> occurs and I thought the whole point of virtualization was to remove any
>> physical hardware dependencies. Second, if I have a host server with a
>> physical NIC dedicated to each guest OS and then I need to migrate one of
>> these guest OS's to a new machine (virtual host server) what happens to the
>> virtual network configuration of the Guest OS. In my senario, my virtual
>> machines would be interacting with machines external to the host virtual
>> server, and again, I would dedicate one physical NIC to each Guest OS.
>>
>> I thank you in advance for any guidance or help you may provide.
>>
>> Sean Flynn
>
>I was able to move and start it up fine after the move from computer
>running amd 3200 processor to my amd X2 4800. The latter is a dual
>core machine with a Gbit network card.
>I did notice that the network connectivity showed up as being
>connected at 100Mb
>eventho I have a Gbit network card on the new host (amd X2 4800). I
>am not sure what the reason for this is. I might be able to modify
>the network card setting on my guest OSs, but I have not been really
>looking into this. I doubt that since it is a virtual network
>adapter. Right now, I'm trying to find any info on whether MSVS2005R2
>will have support for dual-core and dual socket processors.

>Thanks for that info. You mentioned about the 400-500 Mbits transfer
>speeds on this Intel virtual network adapter - how is this possible
>when the connection speed is shown
>as 100Mbit/s? Never mind, I really don't want to know all the details
>of this - but I do want to know if there are known tweaks that can be
>performed on the VMs to achieve these speeds. If so, please guide me
>to those. Does setting the adapter from Autosense to 100/Full duplex
>matter in the virtual sense?
>
>The 400-500Mb/sec connection pipe is equivalent to transferring data
>at 50-63MB/sec.
>I think my sata drives can put out about 70MB/sec which would saturate
>this pipe if I were doing some large file transfers from another PC
>with a gig network adapter. However, that is still much better than
>100Mbits/sec but not as nice as 1Gbit/sec.
>Will there be support for 1Gbit virtual network adapters in the near
>future?