Microsoft Virtual PC - FREE

[jamief]

Microsoft Virtual PC 2004

Virtual PC 2004 is a powerful software virtualization solution that
allows you to run multiple PC-based operating systems simultaneously
on one workstation, providing a safety net to maintain compatibility
with legacy applications while you migrate to a new operating system.
It also saves reconfiguration time, so your support, development,
and training staff can work more efficiently.


Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Systems Requirements

Virtual PC 2004 runs on: Windows 2000 Professional SP4,
Windows XP Professional or later, and Windows XP Tablet PC
Edition or later.


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[Bent]

Re: Microsoft Virtual PC - FREE

Thanks for the link it looks great :-)

Bent

[jamief]

Re: Microsoft Virtual PC - FREE

P4 512memory running XP pro with 2000 server running in virtual PC...

[jamief]

Re: Microsoft Virtual PC - FREE

I know you are all following this saga....so.......

I loaded up UBUNTU linux in virtual window last night and all is well.

So what that means is On my underpowered play PC (XP pro) I am now running
both Windows Server2000 and UBUNTU linux.

To really play with virtual PC you need about 2 GIG of memory.
You must assign memory when you create your virtual drive
and available memory is checked as you fire each on up.

My next course of action is to get my "real" PC back up and running then
reload virtual PC as well as Server 2003 with one UBUNTU session and I will
take my copy of XP pro and load it a couple times and join all three virtual
PC's to my Virtual 2003 server.... Now doesnt that sound like a whole bowl of
big-o-nerd soup?

**Note when you load UBUNTU in the virtual world there are a couple of things
that you need be aware of.....1 the video takes a bit of tweakin and the one that
got me was when your loading linux in the virtual PC when it comes to formating
LINUX shows the entire hard drive as the area to format...so it took me a couple
of courage pills before I actually said "Okay what the HEll..Do it"
well happily.... though it said it would format the entire drive it only formated its
own virtual drive area....

If anyone interested in playing around with this let me know.....
you can get some good trainning on networking...


Jamie

[Billw]

Re: Microsoft Virtual PC - FREE

Sounds like fun. Here at this client they have been playing with VMWare, same thing with multple virtual OS running on one system.

vmware


Bill

[jamief]

Re: Microsoft Virtual PC - FREE

Virtual PC 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft says:

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
An x64-based or an x86-based computer with a 400 MHz or faster (1 GHz recommended) processor with L2 cache

Processor: AMD Athlon/Duron, Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium II, Intel Pentium III, Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core Duo, and Intel Core2 Duo

RAM: Add the RAM requirement for the host operating system that you will be using to the requirement for the guest operating system that you will be using. If you will be using multiple guest operating systems simultaneously, total the requirements for all the guest operating systems that you need to run simultaneously.

Available disk space: To determine the hard disk space required, add the requirement for each guest operating system that will be installed.

Virtual PC 2007 runs on: Windows Vista™ Business; Windows Vista™ Enterprise; Windows Vista™ Ultimate; Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows XP Professional; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition; or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition