How many Virtual Machines can run on Virtual Server?

posted by  sfiroz (91)  14 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

A great question! Answered by our man Jeff Woolsey thanks Jeff for clearing that up :) Virtual Server 2005 R2 running on Windows Server 2003 32-bit (x86 editions). Virtual Server R2 running on 32-bit Windows has a hard coded limit of running 64 virtual machines concurrently. In reality most people have difficulty reaching that number due to 32-bit kernel address space limitations. Specifically, the fact that: · The total virtual address space (based on a single process) for 32-bit Windows is 4 gigabytes...(