Virtual PC 2007

on 02.19.07, 10:53am in windows • Comments (6)

It looks like Virtual PC 2007 is now available for free download. The new version now supports Vista as a guest and a host, 64-bit host support and PXE boot.

6 Comments

    Brandon (February 19, 2007 @ 12:26 pm)

    Wow, not bad! I just started using the VPC2007 RC a week ago when I installed Vista. I am impressed by the system enough to have dropped VMWare. Since I haven’t tried VMWare on Vista yet, I can’t comment on the differences between the two on the platform, but I’m happy enough to not need a test for now.

    Grover Saunders (February 19, 2007 @ 1:11 pm)

    I didn’t think MS allowed running Vista in a virtualized environment?

    Timmy (February 19, 2007 @ 1:25 pm)

    What sucks about VPC2007, is that it checks for the OS version and will only work with a “blessed” version of the OS that is able to run in a virtual environment: Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate. VMWare and Parallels doesn’t do this check and will still let me use Home Premium.

    Steve (February 19, 2007 @ 2:37 pm)

    Grover, as Timmy states, depends on the version of Vista.

    Brandon (February 20, 2007 @ 6:44 am)

    I should qualify my previous statement, my host OS is Vista Business. I’m running XP Pro in my VM so I can still run the applications I need for work that haven’t been updated yet. I still need IE6 for testing our web application, so the only way to do that and have Vista was to run XP.

    John (February 22, 2007 @ 9:55 am)

    I was really disappointed that Microsoft is trying to plug their (known) DRM hole with the EULA. It is down right sad that they are now trying to enforce the EULA with VPC2007. How many more resources are going to be spent trying to plug all the holes in the DRM ship? Even the content providers knew about the potential holes in the new Vista DRM / protected process stuff -and they seemed ok with it. Have you even seen the changes in the tree (for MS Windows guys) needed for this stuff. Geez, what a waste, why should normal processes be impeded by all that protected process bloat?

    Anyhow, why would I even try VPC2007 when I know this artificial limitation is in there? VMWare’s free tools are already working so well for me.

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