Why autologin? I don't understand this. Are you saying thta the
servers in the server room have users autlo logged in? Very strange
for a server...

Noone logs in!
Virtual Server 2005 is a *service* that starts up with the operating
system. No login required..

Once you have Virtual Server installed on the host you have to connect
to it to do the admin stuff. I always do this using the admin
applicatioon VMRC+ from Microsoft (separate download).

You need tro do the following:
- Add the virtual machines to VS2005 (enter the guest vmc file path)
- In the properties for the guest go to Shutdown/Startup:
- Action when Virtual Server stops= Shut down guest (this is critical)
- "Run this guest with specified account" checked
- Enter username/passwotd of account under which the guest should run
 (Notice, this is NOT a logoín to the guest, just the action
 credentials)
- Action when Virtual Server starts = Always autostart guest
- Startup delsy = set it to different values for the guests so there
 will be some time between them
- OK out
- Start the guest manually and note the time it takes to come up
- Use this time as indication of the time to use between auto startup
of each guest.

Notice that if you use VMRC+ from another PC on your network then you
need to know the physical location of the guest files on the server
hard disk because browsing is from the point of view of the PC you run
VMRC+ on. It might be OK to RDP into the server to do this, but I have
not tested that.

Bo Berglund

Put shortcuts for each VM in the Startup folder.

Virtual Server is what you should be using instead of VPC for this, as
it's specifically designed for running VMs as a service and also
allows for VMs to use more than one CPU/core if your system has
multi-CPUs or multi-core CPUs.
Virtual Server also provides a built in remote control program, VMRC.