Is it me, or are you getting BSODs when installing Server 2003 SP2? I suspect that it’s the VMWare environment that I’m running it under that’s causing the odd problem – how can I get a BSOD under a 2GB 2processor VMWare machine when I don’t get one with a 512MB 1processor VMWare machine? Host memory? Host ...

Through experimentation I found that pre-allocating VMWare disks is the best course of action. Sure, you might over allocate disks sizes on the host, but that can save having to restore a from backup when things go wrong. I recent had the opportunity to experiment with allocating disk or not allocating disks under VMWare. I was under the ...