Running Windows 2003 vm on Windows 2000 server host

[SledDog]

I have a situation in which I would like to isolate a server. The current production server is a HP 3.4Ghz Xeon with dual processors. (Don't ask me why they never install W2k3...it isn't my company.)

In order to isolate a particular application, I am wondering if there are any issues hosting a W2k3 VM on that W2k server. I am concerned that the 2k server OS will not translate the hardware abstraction very well to the W2k3 VM.

Has anyone done this? Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Wj

[avarcher · Accepted solution]

VMware Player on Win2k will present a VMware VM that will be perfectly capable of hosting Win2k3, VMware Player presents the hardware, not the host OS.

I got to know Vista on VMware Workstation on XP, and there are many more examples.

[SledDog]

Thanks very much for the response

Wj