Windows 2008 R2 on VPC

According to "Re: VPC to install Winserver 2008 R2" VPC does not support running windows 2008 R2 because this is a 64-bit OS. This means that I will be required to use vmware instead of Virtual PC. VPC is a release candidate. Does Microsoft plan on allowing VPC to run 64-bit guests? Otherwise many users will be forced to use vmware.


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>VPC is a release candidate. Does Microsoft plan on allowing VPC to run 64-bit guests?

Nothing has been announced yet and given that WVPC is at the RC level,
I'd bet you wont see 64-bit support when it is released.

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Bob Comer


On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:16:38 -0400, "Mike Dupont"
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>According to "Re: VPC to install Winserver 2008 R2" VPC does not support running windows 2008 R2 because this is a 64-bit OS. This means that I will be required to use vmware instead of Virtual PC. VPC is a release candidate. Does Microsoft plan on allowing VPC to run 64-bit guests? Otherwise many users will be forced to use vmware.
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On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:27:38 -0400, Robert Comer
<bobcomer-removeme-@mindspring.com> wrote:

>>VPC is a release candidate. Does Microsoft plan on allowing VPC to run 64-bit guests?
>
>Nothing has been announced yet and given that WVPC is at the RC level,
>I'd bet you wont see 64-bit support when it is released.

Yep, and MS (or at least some of its employees) have stated that
WinVPC isn't a replacement for VPC2007, it's designed for XP
application compatibility.

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

On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:45 -0700, "Steve Jain [MVP]"
<noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:27:38 -0400, Robert Comer
><bobcomer-removeme-@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>>VPC is a release candidate. Does Microsoft plan on allowing VPC to run 64-bit guests?
>>
>>Nothing has been announced yet and given that WVPC is at the RC level,
>>I'd bet you wont see 64-bit support when it is released.
>
>Yep, and MS (or at least some of its employees) have stated that
>WinVPC isn't a replacement for VPC2007, it's designed for XP
>application compatibility.

What about Hyper-V then? Can it not run 64 bit guests?

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Bo Berglund wrote:

>
> What about Hyper-V then? Can it not run 64 bit guests?
>

It can indeed run x64 guests.


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Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
MVP - Windows Desktop Experience 2007-2009

Correct me if I am wrong but Hyper-V does not run on Windows 7. Is there
any way to run a Windows 2008 R2 guest on a 64-bit Windows 7 host using
Microsoft virtualization technologies?

"Jane C" <> wrote in message
news:#...
> Bo Berglund wrote:
>
>>
>> What about Hyper-V then? Can it not run 64 bit guests?
>>
>
> It can indeed run x64 guests.
>
>
> --
> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> MVP - Windows Desktop Experience 2007-2009

>Correct me if I am wrong but Hyper-V does not run on Windows 7.

You are not wrong.

>Is there
>any way to run a Windows 2008 R2 guest on a 64-bit Windows 7 host using
>Microsoft virtualization technologies?

There is nothing from Microsoft that will do that, though you could
set up your machine to dual boot between Win7 and Windows 2008 R2,
booting the machine from a VHD so it wont mess up your partitioning.
(Then you could run WIn2008R2 in a VM too for testing.)

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Bob Comer


On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:07:46 -0400, "Mike Dupont"
<> wrote:

>Correct me if I am wrong but Hyper-V does not run on Windows 7. Is there
>any way to run a Windows 2008 R2 guest on a 64-bit Windows 7 host using
>Microsoft virtualization technologies?
>
>"Jane C" <> wrote in message
>news:#...
>> Bo Berglund wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What about Hyper-V then? Can it not run 64 bit guests?
>>>
>>
>> It can indeed run x64 guests.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
>> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
>> MVP - Windows Desktop Experience 2007-2009

After a failed attempt with vmware I decided give Sun's VirtualBox a try.
It is free and so fare is working great for me. It can run a 64-bit guest
OS as long as your machine has a 64-bit processor. For those trying to run
windows 2008 R2 on a client OS (XP, Vista or Windows 7) give VirtualBox a
try.

"Robert Comer" <bobcomer-removeme-@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:...
>>Correct me if I am wrong but Hyper-V does not run on Windows 7.
>
> You are not wrong.
>
>>Is there
>>any way to run a Windows 2008 R2 guest on a 64-bit Windows 7 host using
>>Microsoft virtualization technologies?
>
> There is nothing from Microsoft that will do that, though you could
> set up your machine to dual boot between Win7 and Windows 2008 R2,
> booting the machine from a VHD so it wont mess up your partitioning.
> (Then you could run WIn2008R2 in a VM too for testing.)
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:07:46 -0400, "Mike Dupont"
> <> wrote:
>
>>Correct me if I am wrong but Hyper-V does not run on Windows 7. Is there
>>any way to run a Windows 2008 R2 guest on a 64-bit Windows 7 host using
>>Microsoft virtualization technologies?
>>
>>"Jane C" <> wrote in message
>>news:#...
>>> Bo Berglund wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> What about Hyper-V then? Can it not run 64 bit guests?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It can indeed run x64 guests.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
>>> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
>>> MVP - Windows Desktop Experience 2007-2009

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:46:41 -0400, "Mike Dupont"
<> wrote:

>After a failed attempt with vmware I decided give Sun's VirtualBox a try.
>It is free and so fare is working great for me. It can run a 64-bit guest
>OS as long as your machine has a 64-bit processor. For those trying to run
>windows 2008 R2 on a client OS (XP, Vista or Windows 7) give VirtualBox a
>try.
>

Its also very close to VPC in terms of usability. One key host key,
keyboard entry without needing the mouse captured, etc.

You can even run VBox inside of VBox.

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

seems like microsoft has totaly droped the ball on this area....
3 Vm tools that run on the MS desktop and the only one that can't run the
x64 microsoft operating systems is the VM tool from microsoft.

what the heck?
and the new server OS build and a serveral of the "servers" for windows are
shifting to 64 bit only.

so now it looks like VMWare will be getting a bunch of sales when devs want
to run stuff like server 2008 R2 on a laptop.

Microsoft are you listening?

"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:46:41 -0400, "Mike Dupont"
> <> wrote:
>
> >After a failed attempt with vmware I decided give Sun's VirtualBox a try.
> >It is free and so fare is working great for me. It can run a 64-bit guest
> >OS as long as your machine has a 64-bit processor. For those trying to run
> >windows 2008 R2 on a client OS (XP, Vista or Windows 7) give VirtualBox a
> >try.
> >
>
> Its also very close to VPC in terms of usability. One key host key,
> keyboard entry without needing the mouse captured, etc.
>
> You can even run VBox inside of VBox.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>