To celebrate 24 August 2026, the 30th anniversary of Windows NT Workstation 4.0’s release, I put together a guide for how to get it up and running smoothly in libvirt on Linux.
This guide works for NT 4 Workstation, Server, and Terminal Server.
So you want to get up and running with AppleTalk on Windows 2000? Good choice!
If you’re looking for an instruction guide to successfully connect to SQL Server from a Mac using AppleTalk, I’m afraid this isn’t it. This is documentation of efforts made to get it to work and the dead-end result.
I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain that had one domain controller. I added a second domain controller and performed what I thought were all necessary steps to prepare the new domain controller to be the only one in the domain. Turns out I missed a few key steps and broke my domain.
For the retro part of my home network, I have Windows 2000 Server running Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP servers on the retro VLAN. I was running this on Proxmox, but wanted to move this over to my Debian server running libvirt.
Rather than try to migrate the actual virtual machine, I installed a new instance of Windows 2000 Server under libvirt and added it as a Domain Controller.
libvirt has support for legacy operating systems, but its default configurations are not optimal and will cause difficulties.
