Vista

http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_RC_1_Hardware_Compatibility_List

http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List

Also, if you want halfway decent Java support, you will want to go the Early Access section of Sun's site for the newer Java 6 JRE - http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp

A 21MB download. Do not try to install older versions - they won't work.

http://www.diskeeper.com/trialware/diskeeper/vistadownload.asp

I only have a few systems fired up today but this still works as a good example of LLTD maps in Vista.

"Methusela" is my primary workstation, running Vista RC1. I've ditched XP on it long ago.

"Jukejoint" is my Thinkpad 240, , which was originally used as a jukebox, running XP SP2 with the LLTD add-on.

"Amazon" is my wife's machine that I leave alone. If LLTD was installed on it, her machine would show up "next" to mine because they are behind the same gigabit switch.

If the DD-WRT-ized Linksys WRT54GS had support, it would show up as the switch right above "Jukejoint", because both are on the opposite side of the house where the cell signal strength is stronger. I also use the WRT54GS to scare and confuse wardrivers in the area. Every house needs a honeypot, right?

Not shown is "Ghetto Frankenstein", my Apple G3 beige box that was hacked up to support a G4 chip. It is/was the current jukebox of the house but is currently in storage. There are also a few Digital Multias, printers, workstations and laptops in storage that will need a new home at some point.

A few people have asked what LLTD is all about, and since I am just learning about it myself overall, I've collected a few web links that explain it better than I can. It looks like some consumer grade and commercial grade networking products are starting to support the specification.

Vista and Longhorn will have support for it built-in, out of the box, and XP will have a downloadable add-on - most likely eventually hosted as a Knowledgebase article or optional Windows Update item.

Here are the links, any of the files with a file extension of .ppt will need PowerPoint:
The official IEEE specification for LLTD
Microsoft's WinHEC 2005 PowerPoint presentation
Another Microsoft PowerPoint presentation
Microsoft's website dedicated to LLTD

Interesting but true, but not unexpected, due to how LLTD interfaces with the networking stack. I'm actually very impressed with how accurate the map becomes once most of your machines on your network have LLTD support. It correctly identified that there are two switches between my main workstation and the internet gateway device.

Strangely enough, the gateway device is a half-broken IBM Thinkpad 240. I love that laptop to death due to the small form factor but the LCD screen has issues due to loose connections and/or broken traces on the motherboard. I could probably easily fix it but I haven't had the time or energy to look into it. Life has been too crazy lately.

I keep getting "USB_DRIVER_BUGCHECK" crashes on shutdown of the Vista VM and sometimes during normal operation.

Of course, the easiest way to fix this is to remove the USB driver from the virtual machine. I shouldn't complain because it is beta support and VM Server 1.0.1 is free, but it is worth noting at least. I'm sure others have ran into this.

I haven't tried it on my workstation at home or on an ESX server, so for right now, it has only shown up on my HP laptop, which has the Intel 82855PM chipset/82801DBM USB chipset. I suspect it would/will happen on other platforms though too.

XP SP2 is the host operating system on the laptop, with a Pentium M CPU.

Nice - basically type in the server name and it autolaunches MSTSC

Download from here:

http://gallery.microsoft.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=c7f9c661-ed0b-44e9-b69c-c068c52110ab&l=1

As seen here:

http://blogs.technet.com/james/archive/2006/09/12/455586.aspx