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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 (finally)

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 is now available for free download in both 32bit and 64bit versions. New features include:

PXE boot support for guest OSes

A command line tool for mounting VHDs as virtual drives on other OSes

Support for Volume Shadow Copy snapshots as a backup mechanism

Virtual Server can run more than 64 guest OSes on x64 platforms

128GB is now the default size for expanding disks

But, still no 64 bit guest support which will be available in Longhorn Server Virtualisation codename Viridian.