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Installing Sony Vegas on Windows Server 2008
Hi,
When I try to install Sony Vegas 9 on Windows Server 2008 I get the following error message: "Internal error 2721 SfWMF4setup". We have the 64 bit OS, I have tried both the 32 and 64 bit software versions.
As I understand it the program is not officially supported on this OS. On various forums however I see hints that maybe people are using it successfully somehow.
Even if you don't know specifically about Vegas, general comments are helpful. My workplace just bought a server with the intention of installing this kind of workstation style software, so that people could remote desktop into the machine and use it. I am starting to have a feeling this idea might have been a bad one, if workstation style software often doesn't work on the server OS.
Cheers,
Ben
When I try to install Sony Vegas 9 on Windows Server 2008 I get the following error message: "Internal error 2721 SfWMF4setup". We have the 64 bit OS, I have tried both the 32 and 64 bit software versions.
As I understand it the program is not officially supported on this OS. On various forums however I see hints that maybe people are using it successfully somehow.
Even if you don't know specifically about Vegas, general comments are helpful. My workplace just bought a server with the intention of installing this kind of workstation style software, so that people could remote desktop into the machine and use it. I am starting to have a feeling this idea might have been a bad one, if workstation style software often doesn't work on the server OS.
Cheers,
Ben
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We tried this same concept and ran into the same problems.
We ended up installing vmware ESXi 4 and creating a virtual machine running desktop OS (xp x64).
We then shutdown the vm, made 4 copies of it and essentially ran 4 copies of the same vm.... changing the network name of each vm so we could have 4 people logged into the sever using remote desktop at the same time... since all instances were running on the same hardware, it technically was using only one license.
We ended up installing vmware ESXi 4 and creating a virtual machine running desktop OS (xp x64).
We then shutdown the vm, made 4 copies of it and essentially ran 4 copies of the same vm.... changing the network name of each vm so we could have 4 people logged into the sever using remote desktop at the same time... since all instances were running on the same hardware, it technically was using only one license.
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Hi Ben
Usually it is a very bad idea use remote desktop apps with any graphic intensive softwares like Vegas or any other editor. Sometimes is very useful for small tasks, like exporting or capturing a few things, but is almost impossible to edit on a remote machine. You can install Vegas in other OS, like Windows 7 without any problem and share through remote desktop
Usually it is a very bad idea use remote desktop apps with any graphic intensive softwares like Vegas or any other editor. Sometimes is very useful for small tasks, like exporting or capturing a few things, but is almost impossible to edit on a remote machine. You can install Vegas in other OS, like Windows 7 without any problem and share through remote desktop
Thanks for the info. I accept the solution because I see that in principle it could work. We would have to use hyper-v because we need some of the server's other functions. I am going to try and avoid it by trying to find some other video editing software that works on the OS - we aren't totally tied to Vegas. Any ideas? (Although I'm going to ask another question about that).
I take the point that it's a bad idea to do graphic work over remote desktop, but I think it will work acceptably in our case. I have tested running some free graphics programs on the server and it works OK. Probably because the server is sitting in the same building as the terminals - we aren't talking internet here.
Cheers,
Ben
I take the point that it's a bad idea to do graphic work over remote desktop, but I think it will work acceptably in our case. I have tested running some free graphics programs on the server and it works OK. Probably because the server is sitting in the same building as the terminals - we aren't talking internet here.
Cheers,
Ben
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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.