Virtual PC 2007 on Vista RC2
Developing application on Vista RC2 just got a whole lot easier: Virtual PC 2007 Beta is available. Prior to this release Virtual PC didn't play very nicely on Vista so you were forced to setup Virtual Server. VS has some benefits over Virtual PC, but VPC is much more convenient to use.
Since VPC 2007 supports Vista as a host operating system the glass features are enabled. From the VPC Guy:
Major changes include:
- Support for hardware virtualization (Intel and AMD)
- Support for Windows Vista as a host operating system
- Support for Windows Vista as a guest operating system
- Note: No support for Aero Glass though - just Aero Basic
- Support for 64-bit host operating systems
- Note: Virtual machines are 32-bit only
- Improved performance
VPC 2007 detected that my Toshiba M5 has hardware virtualization and enabled it. So far it seems very fast and easy to use. I'm glad to see this being released as it completes my RC2 machine.
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