What are the downsides of virtual machines? Virtual machines do have a few disadvantages. ... And if the physical server crashes, all of the applications running on it will go down.

ESX Server 2 can create virtual machine partitions able to run Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, XP Professional, NT 4, RedHat Advanced Server 2.1, RedHat (versions 7.3, 8.0, and ...

(1) See server virtualization. Contrast with virtual host. (2) A virtual machine environment from Microsoft for Windows servers. See Microsoft Virtual Server. (3) Multiple servers that appear as ...