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I was able to successfully get Home Server up and running on VMware using the beta version of Vmware Workstation exp build 36983. You can download it at the VMware Beta Center.

I mounted the ISO file directly to the machine and set the HD at 80G, all other items were at default. I am running this on a Dell Inspiron laptop with Duo Centrino and 2Gb RAM.

Here you can see the settings from the VMware console:

And after starting you can see that it booted right into it:

Next I will run Connector on a Vista Ultimate Virtual machine and see if it can connect on a virtual network.

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I am going to run out later today and get a dedicated box for the Beta but I think I will run a test on VMware to see if I can use a virtual home server. Since it uses underlying Windows 2003 systems I am thinking it should be ok, but I will find out soon enough. This will also allow me to easily get screen shots of the install procedure.

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