Personally we're using VMWare ESXi 4.0 for my QA teams & my own testing purposes. It really is pretty damn good. Hyper-V Server is Microsoft's response to VMWare making ESXi free. Any machine you can run Hyper-V Server on you can run ESXi on & from my experience it's a much better choice overall.
I'm not (never have been and never will be) one of those people who hate Microsoft products just because they're made by Microsoft but VMWare do virtualization very well so it's hard to recommend Hyper-V Server over ESXi. ESXi 4.0 supports version 7 VM's so you can move from VMWare Server to ESXi without too much fuss plus it supports thin disks natively (something I really missed from Virtual PC when moving to VMWare Server/ESXi 3.5) with a simple checkbox in the disk options now. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: 18 June 2010 19:59 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Deferred custom action Impersonation. "Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2" is free to download and use, if you don't have a Server 2008 license available. It requires an x64 box with certain CPUs that support hardware virtualization. -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:35 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Deferred custom action Impersonation. To Bob's list (which is a little out of date) I'll add that Server 2008 also has Hypervisor, Microsoft's newer VM technology. If you can get an x64 Server 2008 box you can have x64 and x86 VMs. VMs really are the best way to test setups when you can do your tests and then revert to an untarnished image. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 3:21 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Deferred custom action Impersonation. http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/09/24/test-your-setups-virtually/ Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Sagar1111 [mailto:sagarkavitak...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 June 2010 08:11 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Deferred custom action Impersonation. if i have a deferr=red custom action with Impersonate="yes". then on Windows Vista with UAC enabled i get a prompt asking if the user wishes the allow the program to access your computer. now if the user presses allow in UAC prompt. 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