Why a domain controler cannot run VMware Server?

Question

When I try to install VMWare server on a domain controller the installer says that it's not recommended? Why?

Solution 1

take a look here.

Solution 2

DCs have the disk write cache disabled. This will probably cause quite a bit of performance degradation to any hosted VMs. I would really recommend against it.

Comments

[Shoshan]

This reasom means that no critical service can be ran on a VM.

[Matt Simmons]

Essentially, it implies that critical services should be one to a machine, and you should have a dedicated VM host to run your VMs on. This is why things like hyper-v and vmware ESX are so popular.