Creating a New Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine

Follow these instructions to create a new Windows Server 2003 VM on your everRun system. You should understand the following considerations before you create the Windows Server 2003 VM:

• The Windows Server 2003 operating system is no longer supported by Microsoft.
• The only version of Windows Server 2003 that everRun systems support is the Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise SP2 32-bit operating system.
• The network VirtIO driver is not automatically installed as it is when creating VMs with other operating systems. The manual steps required to do this are provided in the procedure below.

To create a new Windows Server 2003 VM

1. Create a bootable virtual CD (VCD) of the Windows Server 2003 media as described in Creating a Virtual CD.
2. Perform steps 1 through 7 of the procedure as described in Creating a New Virtual Machine.

3. When the dialog box informing you that the software has not passed Windows Logo testing appears click Yes to continue the installation.

4. When the dialog box informing you that the RedHat VirtIO SCSI controller driver has not passed Windows Logo testing appears, click Yes to continue the installation.

5. When the dialog box informing you that Windows Setup is not complete, click Cancel.

6. In the Windows Setup message informing you that you have chosen to not continue Setup, click OK.
7. Open Computer Management and click Device Manager.
8. In the right-hand pane of Computer Manager, under Other Devices, right click Ethernet Controller. In the pop-up menu click Update Driver.
9. In the Hardware Update Wizard, select No, not this time. Click Next.
10. In the Hardware Update Wizard, select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced). Click Next.
11. In the Hardware Update Wizard, select Search removable media (floppy, CD-ROM...). Click Next.
12. In the Hardware Update Wizard, select the top-most Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter entry. Click Next.
13. When the Hardware Installation message informs you that the software has not passed Windows Logo testing click Continue Anyway, then click Finish.
14. Close Computer Management.

15. Shut down the VM that was just installed. This must be done in order to remove the virtual floppy drive that was automatically installed earlier during the installation.

    Note: If you need to install optional software from the Windows Server CD2 you must obtain an ISO image of that media. Place that ISO image on a network that the system can access, and run the setup.exe file.
16. After you install the operating system, configure the additional resources and software necessary for production use, as described in Configuring Windows-based Virtual Machines.

Related Topics

Creating and Migrating Virtual Machines

Managing the Operation of a Virtual Machine