Running SQL Server Enterprise 2005 on MS Virtual Server

I keep wondering if this is safe. I am getting errors here and there along with the inability to connect to my database via connection string in ASP.NET no matter if the user has complete permissions or not amongst other difficulties and I wonder if this is causing a lot of the problems. WE are running SQL Server Enterprise 2005 on Microsoft Virtual Server. Is this approved?

Running SQL Server in a virtual machine should work. I do this for scenario testing all the time.

The usual suspects for connectivity problems in virtual machines are whether the virtual network adapter is attached to the host's network adapter (vs. the "local adapter" that can't be seen outside the virtual server environment) and the host's firewall getting in the way of other computer's talking to the virtual machine.

The typical issues with SQL Server connectivity also apply to SQL Servers running in virtual machines. Make sure SQL Server is configured to listen to TCP/IP connections on the virtual network adapter that is mapped to the host's network adapter. Also, make sure that the firewall in your virtual machine is allowing external connections to SQL Server's port.

|||We are running some test environments on Virtual Server.
We haven't experienced any issues so far.