Microsoft Virtual Pc 2007

[wpcoe]

(I started this new thread rather than derail the original thread 32bit OR 64 Bit Vista? where the virtualization discussion began.)

wpcoe: where can i find out more about virtual machices? do yo uhave a link?? my friend is cfacinated with them and their similarity to unix in this manner.

I'm by no stretch of the imagination an expert on virtualization, but here goes. :-)

First of all, I mis-spoke (a good Clinton-ism I have adopted into my vocabulary) above: VPC did not come with Vista, I downloaded it from the MS site. It only works with Vista Business and Ultimate, apparently, and not either Home version.

The documentation says it only supports MS Windows virtual machines, but reports I've read said you can run Linux and other OS's as well.

I did play around with VMWare's VM software a few years ago, and from what I recall, it's very similar. The VM client software is also free, like VPC, but the VM server software is not free so you cannot create your own virtual machines for free. However, there are many pre-configured downloads that others have created with the VM server software and made available for free for most probable applications.

At the time I experimented with VMWare, my computer did not have a processor with virtualization hooks, and I found the client OS operation to be slow and jerky. When I upgraded my system to a Dual-Core chip with virtualization hooks, I tried VPC2007 and the client OS works smoothly as if it were totally independent. I'm not sure if it were the faster and more efficient processing or the virtualization hooks that made the difference, but the current combo I'm using is vastly better than before.

In the near future, I intend to try to load a Linux distro (probably Xubuntu) and see how that goes.

Some of the sites I had bookmarked when I was researching MS Virtual Machine:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...pc/default.mspx

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/4...43/relnotes.htm

http://www.petri.co.il/virtual_create_virt...ual_pc_2007.htm

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2099568,00.asp

[luumak]

it works w/ xp also, my friensd is running it.

thanks dude for above and beyond effort for stranger.