Okay, Hyper-V is cool. It's fast, easy to use, has a lot more features, & generally works very nicely. Much better than Virtual Server 2005 R2. Moved this website over to a new VM (upgraded to 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 in the process...yeah!) on my new server, and it's working great (I hope...guess I'll know for sure if any comments get posted...:)). Tried moving another VM over just by coping the VHD file, but that didn't work so well. Didn't really expect it to before trying, but then got hopeful when first starting it up and trying to install the integration components, and now have finally accepted that the two solutions (VS2005R2 & Hyper-V) are just too different for things to work.

Not sure I care that much for Hyper-V's licensing model though...yes, the basic product is free, but to get the "good" management tools you have to shell out the big $$$'s for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Guess I'm just greedy and want everything for free... ;) (no, seriously, would it be too hard to have a management interface that allows you to see, at a glance, how many resources have been allocated to the VM's? kind of like the old VMRCplus view?)

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