I'm running WHS, with 2 GB and wanted to setup a Microsoft Virtual Server on it. So I have followed a simple guide at Robert Stinnett's blog and got first host up and running - Windows 2003. As you may imagine, it installed fine, without any issue.
Next was Linux Ubuntu installation. So I have downloaded it from official site (version 8.04), copied to Home Server and created a new virtual machine. As I expected, first thing Linux did when I tried to install, is simply crashed. You may ask me why I have expected this - just because this already happened to me with one of previous versions of Ubuntu on Virtual PC. Luckily, I'm not the first one who encounter this issue, so I have quickly found a guide on how to fix this problem. After that, installation went smooth.
Other issue I had AFTER everything was installed and running fine - when I have booted Linux machine, it failed to start up because the hard disk file was being used by another program:
"The virtual hard disk "\\*****\Virtual Machines\Linux Ubuntu\Linux Ubuntu.vhd" attached to primary channel (0) of "Linux Ubuntu" could not opened with read-write access. You need read-write access to the virtual hard disk to boot a virtual machine. Another virtual machine or the Virtual Disk Manager might be using this disk right now."
Unfortunately, when I logged to server to check who is accessing hard drive file, the problem has gone. So I'm not sure if this was Virtual Server itself or maybe Home Server tried to "balance" drive and thus locked the file.
posted @ Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:42 AM