Microsoft Exchange Server hardware virtualization is so popular that it seems as if everyone is moving their entire infrastructure to a virtual server environment. That being the case, I want to discuss some of the issues you may encounter when virtualizing Exchange 2007 mailbox servers.
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Considerations for virtualizing Exchange 2007 mailbox servers
Thursday, October 30th, 2008VirtualBox Fix
Saturday, October 4th, 2008This file is used for the “Unknown” devices in a Windows VirtualBox machine. Its the SATA drivers that is missing.
Horrid CPU Issues with VMWare and Hardware Interrupts
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008So I fought this problem all day long. My Windows XP VMWare image was running like crap. I started to poke around. The first thing I did was to bring up the task manager. Sure enough, my virtual CPU was pegged at around 55-60% when the vm was doing nothing. This is not good!