Virtulization newbie.

I thinks i should clear up a few mistakes i made in the posts, the specs in my profile is not the specs i am using now, i am on a 4 year old Dell 1520 W7 32 bit, by mistake i was trying to install WS 2008 on VMware player on it.

During the installation of WS2008 i encountered an error when the VM machine rebooted, say the boot manager could not load, ( see link in previous post ) i then got worried thinking that if i rebooted my Dell it would not load up W7, due to the error ,i have yet to reboot the Dell, so i followed Kado897 advice.

kado897 said:

I am confused. Did you install in the VM? If so just delete the VM (right click on the machine entry in VMPlayer and select delete), set it up again and install the 32bit version.

i was able to delete the VM but i have not tried to install the 32 bit WS 2008 as of yet. so if i continue with the installation of WS2008 32bit, and it installs successfully and i then reboot my Dell, will i have any issues booting into W7,?

sorry for any confusion.

Well thanks for your reply i feel a lot better now, just one more question before i install the WS2008 32bit, after it asks for the product key and i tell VM yes to continue, it asks what name i would like to use , ( i give it a name ) and the default location of of the VM is
C:\Users\Pantz\Documents\Virtual Machines\Windows Server 2008
i can choose to install it on my External drive , or does the VM create a location on the external drive automatically ? i think i believe VM keep it seperate from my C :\ ?
but i would just like to make sure,

Thanks

Hello again, well after a bumpy start i successful installed WS2008 in the VM.
I would like to thank everyone who made this possible, props to kado897 who was able to explain the thing i was not sure of so that i could understand.

Now that i have it installed i guess i need to play around with it, is the anything that i should be aware of,? i guess my server can be seen in the net?, what if anything i should be installing to protect the server?.

Once again thanks.

hello. i already have outpost running on the host, do i need one for the VM also? or will outpost be ok for both host and VM ?

Thanks.

OK... thanks.