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Will a Windows Server 2003 R2 Virtual Machine that was created using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 be fully compatible if moved over to become a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtual machine?<br />
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I would like to use Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 instead of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to manage my Windows Server 2003 R2 virtual machine (which is running on a Server 2003 for Small Business Server operating system).<br />
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Is this possible?
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Will a Windows Server 2003 R2 Virtual Machine that was created using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 be fully compatible if moved over to become a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtual machine?

I would like to use Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 instead of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to manage my Windows Server 2003 R2 virtual machine (which is running on a Server 2003 for Small Business Server operating system).

Is this possible?

Will a Windows Server 2003 R2 Virtual Machine that was created using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 be fully compatible if moved over to become a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtual machine?

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).