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Only one of Virtual PC -or- Virtual PC 2007 can be installed concurrently on any given machine.įrom Microsoft, other vendors, and open source, there are other sources of virtualization technology, and some might even be compatible with Virtual PC or VHD. Unlike Virtual PC 2007, Virtual PC is for Windows 7 will not work on XP (but will work on the Windows 7 beta, sometimes known as Vista :-). Does my PC support hardware virtualization (or XP Mode)? Unlike Virtual PC 2007 which will work regardless of whether you have hardware virtualization, Virtual PC will work ONLY WHEN your computer supports hardware virtualization. If you are running Windows 7, you can look into Virtual PC (sometimes seen as Virtual PC 7) (which includes XP Mode). If you are a developer running XP -or- are running Win 7 on hardware that does not support hardware virtualization, Virtual PC 2007 is very likely what you want. You go through a lot of trouble to get your configuration “just so” and now want to share that with colleagues – or with yourself (on your home machine). You want to set up a machine configuration and reuse it. You can run Windows 7 within a Windows XP host. You may want to run Windows 7 to make sure your apps run fine on it – but you also don’t want to give up XP quite yet. You want to run multiple operating systems. Or you to keep testing something that changes your machine – and need to “start from scratch” frequently. You may want to try out some testing with 4 GB or RAM, then maybe with 1/2 GB or RAM – so you know what to expect. A virtual machine environment makes it easy to manage these without risking your real machine.

#DOWNLOADING VIRTUAL PC INSTALL#

You don’t want to install Pre-Release software (like a CTP – Community Technology Preview, which means “very rough”) or beta software directly on your development machine. There are several reasons to use a Virtual PC-managed virtual machine for development: This post does not cover use of (related) virtualization techniques which are very popular today on the server-side. Note this post deals with concerns for Developers. In this post I concentrate on creating a Virtual PC image for Windows 7, but the steps for the other operating systems are similar.

#DOWNLOADING VIRTUAL PC HOW TO#

This post describes how to install Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, followed by a detailed walk-through of how to create a virtual machine image of a fresh Windows 7 installation using Virtual PC 2007.

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