Windows® Small Business Server 2008 Administrator’s Companion

SBS in Hyper-V

Microsoft has announced that running SBS Standard and Premium in a Hyper-V child partition is supported, and that using the Second Server as a parent partition, with only the Hyper-V Role enabled, is fully supported and still allows installation of the Second Server as a child partition. Further, if no additional Roles are installed in the parent partition, and the parent partition is used as part of an SBS network, the partition does not need to be domain joined, simplifying deployment. See the "Microsoft server software and supported virtualization environments" Knowledge Base article (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957006) for up-to-date virtualization support statements. So, that sounds like we think everything is good with ...