Question about versions for Virtual PC

I am trying to have windows 7 running inside virtual pc which will be hosted
by windows XP.
Can someone tell me if the latest Microsoft Virtual PC could be hosted by
windows XP or not?
If not, can windows 7 running inside the previous version Virtual PC 2007?

Roy wrote:
> I am trying to have windows 7 running inside virtual pc which will be hosted
> by windows XP.
> Can someone tell me if the latest Microsoft Virtual PC could be hosted by
> windows XP or not?
> If not, can windows 7 running inside the previous version Virtual PC 2007?

The latest "Windows Virtual PC" will only run on a Windows 7 host.

Windows 7 will run as a guest in Virtual PC 2007, but if you do not have
hardware virtualization it may run very poorly, because VPC 2007 was not updated
for Windows 7.

Windows 7 guest runs fine on VMWare workstation without hardware virtualization.

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David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

Mark Rae [MVP] wrote:
> "David Wilkinson" <no-> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>> Windows 7 guest runs fine on VMWare Workstation without hardware
>> virtualization.
>
> And on WMWare Player, the free version...

.... if you use VMX builder (also free) to build the machine.

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David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

Mark Rae [MVP] wrote:
> "David Wilkinson" <no-> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>>>> Windows 7 guest runs fine on VMWare Workstation without hardware
>>>> virtualization.
>>>
>>> And on WMWare Player, the free version...
>>
>> ... if you use VMX builder (also free) to build the machine.
>
> Not required these days...

Really? How come?

I haven't used VMWare Player since I got Workstation...

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David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:49:35 -0000, "Mark Rae [MVP]"
<> wrote:

>"David Wilkinson" <no-> wrote in message
>news:...
>
>>>> Windows 7 guest runs fine on VMWare Workstation without hardware
>>>> virtualization.
>>>
>>> And on WMWare Player, the free version...
>>
>> ... if you use VMX builder (also free) to build the machine.
>
>Not required these days...

The latest version is full featured and allows you to create VMs, you
get almost everything from Workstation but Teams, multiple Snapshots
and Clones, or Virtual Rights Management features for end-point
security.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/

Mark Rae [MVP] wrote:
> "David Wilkinson" <no-> wrote in message
> news:%...
>
>>>> ... if you use VMX builder (also free) to build the machine.
>>>
>>> Not required these days...
>>
>> Really? How come?
>
> Er, because it's now part of the application itself...

Great! I didn't know that.

So it's really not just Player now, it's Workstation Light.

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David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:09:32 -0800, "Steve Jain [MVP]"
<noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:49:35 -0000, "Mark Rae [MVP]"
><> wrote:
>
>>"David Wilkinson" <no-> wrote in message
>>news:...
>>
>>>>> Windows 7 guest runs fine on VMWare Workstation without hardware
>>>>> virtualization.
>>>>
>>>> And on WMWare Player, the free version...
>>>
>>> ... if you use VMX builder (also free) to build the machine.
>>
>>Not required these days...
>
>The latest version is full featured and allows you to create VMs, you
>get almost everything from Workstation but Teams, multiple Snapshots
>and Clones, or Virtual Rights Management features for end-point
>security.

Yes, I just saw that the snapshots aren't there.
The new one is VMWare Player 3 and it handles USB just fine as well as
allowing Aero in the Vista/Win7 guests. And it runs 64 bit Windows if
you have the processor for it (with VT) even though you run a 32 bit
base OS for hosting Player3.

What I don't understand is from where VMWare is going to get its
revenue since Player3 surely will undercut Workstation sales.
Of course once you start using snapshots you may not want to be
without, but still....
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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 00:11:32 -0000, "Mark Rae [MVP]"
<> wrote:

>"Bo Berglund" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>
>> What I don't understand is from where VMWare is going to get its
>> revenue since Player3 surely will undercut Workstation sales.
>
>VMWare makes (next to) nothing from sales of VMWare Workstation. Their major
>revenue stream is from ESX Server. Their decision to bundle almost all of
>Workstation's functionality into the free Player product is, I think, a very
>shrewd marketing ploy. I'm sure they'll discontinue Workstation after the
>next version - no-one who uses Player needs Workstation and, regrettably,
>there really now is no need to use Virtual PC for anything, as VMWare Player
>does everything so much better...
>
>This is not uncommon in the IT software industry... Do you know anyone who
>still uses Lotus 1-2-3...?

And the big support contracts for ESX and everything that goes along
with ESx

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/

Bo Berglund wrote:
> The new one is VMWare Player 3 and it handles USB just fine as well as
> allowing Aero in the Vista/Win7 guests. And it runs 64 bit Windows if
> you have the processor for it (with VT) even though you run a 32 bit
> base OS for hosting Player3.

Actually (at least on Workstation 6) the requirements for x64 guest are

-- Revision D or later of AMD Athlon64, Opteron, Turion64, and Sempron

-- Intel Pentium 4 and Core2 processors with EM64T and Intel Virtualization
Technology"

I have Athlon64 on Socket 939 which does not have hardware virtualization, but I
can use x64 guest (Win7) on x86 host (XP).

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP