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SolutionBase: What's new in Virtual PC 2007

Virtual PC will always run a guest operating system really slow when operated from the hard drive in a host system.So why not install Virtual PC before any operating systems are installed.VPC would be a DOS program it would be installed on the drive pre operating system install or on a non formatted drive.VPC would be the first DOS screen that you would see,and would format the drives at its install.In DOS VPC the operating systems would be installed.I boot my computer and see VPC and the various operating systems.I can click on any system to run it.All of the operating systems could cross talk and so on.(note:I e-mailed this idea to VMWare several years ago and received no response.)

It's either one or the other.

Virtual PC was not designed as a DOS shell or a Ghost menu shell.
If you know or have knowledge of MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 you would understand.
In the old days we used Ghost to deploy OS and Apps in addition to creating and deploying image files.

Lets take it for what it is " A simulation" and use it as such.

I use MS Virtual Server R2 in my org. It work just as planned but one should note; there is a down side. Do not expect the same performance as a boxed system. Use a server with enough resources (RAM + CPU) give enough RAM to the VM minimum 512 for XP or 2000 server, 1GB or more will be sweet for WIN 2003.
Blessings!

very clear thanks

Unfair comparison Diana.

The $189 VMWare Workstation is streets ahead of VPC 2007. The VMWare equivalent of VPC 2007 is VMWare Server - also free, arguably at least as good and more Linux friendly.
And it's not so damn picky about which OSs it'll run on.

I used Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista Ultimate laptop to give me a Windows XP virtual environment to run my software that Vista couldn't run. It has performed very well for me without having to create a dual-boot situation.

I use it to run win98 and a legacy msdos application. It works fine.