Vista Home Premium - help!

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Hey guys

I recently bought a new PC with Vista Home Premium installed. I've been getting to grips with Vista, although I'm having XP withdrawal symptons already

The two main reasons for getting a new pc were to setup a virtual network (using virtual server and virtual pc) and also to use IIS to host an FTP server.

I now realise that I need to upgrade to do any of this !!

It's primarily for training purposes as I already use Filezilla for my FTP server, but I need to get to grips with IIS and also create a virtual network for learning purposes!

I've spent the last two weeks installing programs and setting up Vista, but I now need to upgrade to Vista Business; how can I transfer my programs, files and settings to Vista Business or do these get maintained in the upgrade?

I think the Vista business upgrade is £100 + I can hear my bank account crying already!

Any help or advice would be much appreciated!

Many thanks!

 

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Why did you have to upgrade?

[edit]
ah right MS Virtual server dosen't like Home Prem(nice one M$), you should have just used a VMWare product

 

I didn't upgrade, my old PC was on its last legs so I thought I'd get a new PC with Vista on it.

Edit: did you mean why upgrade to Vista Business? Virtual PC doesnt seem to be compatible with the Home version and I want to setup a virtual network.

 

Virtual PC does work but is unsupported

 

I know I've already downloaded it along with an XP and Server 2003 VHD.

Does VMware support VHD's? If not, I suppose I could install a trial version of Server 2003 onto it couldn't I?

 

I'm sure the inbuilt coverter could handle most vhd conversions, although if you are getting the vhd's from microsoft better check there TOS

might look here to

 

Source..

http://www.geekgirls.com/vista_upgrade.htm

 

Thank you for that link, very useful!

I won't be upgrading my version of Vista, Im going to use VMware instead!

Cheers!!

 

I'm running server 2003 and XP on my Virtual PC, Vista Home seems to be running it ok

 

nice one, the weird and wonderful world of microsoft