![]() 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. 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. Microsoft also provide Windows Virtual PC release note and Windows 7 Virtual PC Evaluation Guide document, VirtualPC_Eval_Guide.doc, which explains on how to use the Virtual PC and Virtual Windows XP in Windows 7.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. Note that the Virtual Machines folder opens in Windows Explorer, and Create Virtual Machine and Settings options can be found from the menu bar. However, download of final version of Virtual Windows XP setup installer, VirtualWindowsXP.msi, will only start officially simultaneously with release of Windows 7 RC, scheduled on early May, from Windows Virtual PC official homepage. Shortcut to Virtual Machine folder and Virtual Windows XP are added to Start Menu. Official download links for Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode is now published by Microsoft.ĭownload Virtual Windows XP Mode, which has also been leaked.Īfter installing (or upgrading) Windows Virtual PC to Windows 7, a reboot is required. Also require is processor-based virtualization support (most both Intel and AMD’s processors have hardware-VT support, but must be enabled in BIOS), similar to the Hyper-V virtualization platform present in Windows Server. ![]() Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate editions, preferably 2GB of shared memory with minimum 256MB available to virtualization. System Requirements for Windows Virtual PC 7 What’s more, Windows 7 Virtual PC now supports Windows Aero visual effect in the virtual machine. What’s best other than usual components integration and resources sharing, even without Virtual XP installed, it’s possible to access an application directly from the desktop of the host operating system when the application is installed in the virtual machine that runs Windows XP or Windows Vista. After installing KB958559 Windows Virtual PC, Windows 7 users can create virtual machine, edit settings of virtual machine, run and power off virtual machine. Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 is released as an update for Windows 7, and has the Knowledge Base Article ID of KB958559. Windows Virtual PC also powers Virtual Windows XP or Windows XP Mode (VXP or XPM) that allows older or incompatible apps, such as 16-bit programs to seamlessly run on same desktop environment of host machine without run the virtual machine. Windows Virtual PC is a new optional component that create and run virtual machine for application compatibility. Instead, Windows Virtual PC (Virtual PC 7) is released for Windows 7 systems. The Virtual PC 2007 has been the main free virtualization software by Microsoft for Windows users, until Windows 7, which does not support the versions up to Virtual PC 2007 SP1.
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