Welcome

Welcome to the TFS Build Virtualizer project homepgage, to see what this project is all about please refer to our project description.

Project Description

TFS Build Virtualizer is an extension to the Team Foundation Server build system which allows build masters to have a large number of virtualized build servers with Team Build installed. When a build is invoked the build virtualizer determines which build server to use to run the build and communicates with Virtual Server 2005 where it exists in a saved state.

The build virtualizer resumes the build server from saved state, and forwards the build request into the build server where it builds normally. Once the build completes (success or failure) the build server is put into a saved state once again.

Benefits of using this approach include being able to have a large number of build servers (for each team, or different build environment) and be limited by only the amount of available disk space.

The build virtualizer is designed to accommodation multiple different TFS servers and has configuration settings to restrict which hosted virtual machines developers can request access to.

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