No. Microsoft does not plan to release a driver for Windows Server 2003 x64. You will need to use synthetic network devices, which, to be loaded, require Integration Components in Hyper-V.

Hyper-V dynamically assigns a MAC address to the virtual network adapter when a newly created virtual machine is turned on. If you want to assign a static MAC address without having to turn on the virtual machine, you can configure a global static MAC address range for VMM 2008. When you create a virtual machine, you can use the next available address from the range.

To set the MAC address range, in Administration view of the VMM Administrator Console, expand the Networking node, and then click Global static MAC address range. For more information, see How to Set the Static MAC Address Range for Virtual Network Devices.

Linking to a centrally stored ISO image in the VMM library when a virtual machine is on a Hyper-V host has not been tested at this time. VMM does not support this for virtual machines deployed on ESX Server hosts.

The answer file format depends on the Windows operating system that is selected in the guest operating system profile. If you select the Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP operating system, the selection list shows only .inf files. If you select Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, the selection list shows only .xml files.

You can use the VMware templates in VMM 2008 as follows:

• After adding a VMware Virtual Center server, you can import your existing templates on VMware ESX Server hosts into the library for use in VMM. Use the Import templates action in the Virtualization Managers node in Administration view of the VMM Administrator Console.
  
  
• You can use the New template action in the VMM Administrator Console to create a new template based on a VMware virtual machine.
  
  

Yes. When you create a template from an existing virtual hard disk or an existing virtual machine, you can choose the Customization not required option on the Guest OS Profile wizard page to exclude the template from Sysprep. This feature enables VMM administrators to create virtual machines with non-Windows guest operating systems and with Windows operating systems on which VMM cannot run Sysprep (such as Windows 7). The feature enables self-service users, who are restricted to creating virtual machines from templates provided by the administrator, to create a virtual machine from a virtual hard disk.

When used with Set-VM, the -UserRole parameter is used to assign a self-service user role to a virtual machine; therefore, SelfServiceUser is the only valid parameter in that context. However, the -UserRole parameter is also used by other cmdlets that might need other values.