I’m not a fan of using beta software for production purposes. But I decided to try and use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS with the latest beta from VMWare. Installation went fine and most of the virtual machines I installed ran without problems. I then got a request for a 32-bit Vista VM to consolidate some older DUD’s (Dressed Up Desktops) that were being used for automation processes. Installation went smooth as expected. Got it logged in and joined to our AD domain without a hitch. Turned off all pretty effects to speed it up a bit. Installed SNMP and IIS and handed it over to the user. I come back this morning and he’s telling me it’s down. I boot it up and it goes through some type of registery check. It configures some updates and logs in finally. I goto check that snmp is still enabled and it’s complaining about low resources. Reboot and the same thing. Google doesn’t turn up anything usefull so i’m assuming either the developer installed something wacky or the VM got corrupted yet again. I had a similiar thing happen the first time i tried Vista on Server 2.0 Beta on this server.
So I’ve gone back to Server 1.0.6 after fighting through dependency hell. Fingers crossed that I can finally get this user up and running so I can eliminate more of these damned DUD’s.