Hi...I'm trying to virtualize a small Windows Server 2003 network under VMWare for development and testing. The problem I am encountering is while guesting SQL Server 2000 SP4 on Windows Server 2003 SP1, I get random errors from SQL Server which indicate corruption of the database when loading and replicating data. This does not appear to be happening natively as far as I can tell, but I'm still trying to narrow down what is going on.
This is happening on an AMD64 X2 4400+. Host has been 64 bit SUSE Linux 10.1 and Windows Server 2003 SP1.
Are there known instabilities in VMWare server that could be causing this to happen? Am I wasting my time testing this in a virtualized environment? I am really becoming disillusioned with the stability of this product.