This is the Q&A in Virtual Server or Virtual PC on Windows Virtualization Team Blog:
Q: I’m interested in evaluating Microsoft virtualization, which should I use, Virtual PC or Virtual Server?
A: The answer to this question really depends on your application and usage. Both Virtual PC and Virtual Server are powerful, easy to use products that offer unique features and functionality. For example:
- Virtual PC offers an intuitive, local UI designed for a single user while Virtual Server offers a Web Administration application allowing multiple users to administer Virtual Servers remotely.
- Virtual Server is designed with extensibility in mind and includes a fully documented COM interface in the Virtual Server Programmer’s Guide. So, if you’re interested in developing your own scripts to configure, create virtual machines, Virtual Server is the way to go.
- Virtual Server is heavily threaded and designed to take advantage and scale on multi-processor computers with large amounts of memory. In fact, Virtual Server can use up to 256 GB of physical memory with the latest version.
And yes, that's exactly the same for VMware Server and VMware Workstation or VMware Player. Virtual Server version is designed to host the servers and PC version is designed for hosting the workstations or servers for testing purposes.
And another yes, the images are compatible in both versions. A guest 2003 server virtual machine can be run on both Virtual PC and Virtual server.
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