Anyone running all the versions - And virtual machines

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Saucy

Are any of you running all the versions of Vista RTM?

On two computers, I'm running:

VU64
VU32
VBus32
VBasic32
Server200332

I use Server 2003 as a base OS on one of them and ran bootpart. Now each
thinks it's on a primary partition [c:] and I can boot to any of them.

I'm also wondering about virutal machines. Does Vista support Virtual PC
2004 and does Virtual PC 2004 support Vista either "offically" or
"actuality" [e.g. although VPC2004 isn't offically support on Sever 2003, it
seems to run without issues]?

I've (re)installed VistaU about four times now and VBus two or three times
and will be doing it again today. I already noticed one little "bug" in the
install routine last time and want to go through the install process again.

Thanks
 
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Richard Urban

I have VirtualPC 2007 beta (free to everyone) installed and it works fine.
Running Vista on Vista works OK.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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Colin Barnhorst

There is no edition of VPC that officially supports Vista yet. Vista will
be supported officially on VPC 2007 when it releases in a couple of months.

As Richard says, VPC 2007 beta is your best bet. I would not use VPC 2004
SP1. VPC 2007 beta virtual machine additions support Vista very nicely now.

I have run all four editions of Vista x86 on VPC 2007 beta without incident.
However, I have run MSDN licenses only. The EULAs for Home Basic and Home
Premium do not permit using the retail licenses in a virtual machine.
 
R

Richard Urban

Same here. I have installed all versions of Vista under VirtualPC 2007, just
to jet a handle on the differences.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



Colin Barnhorst said:
There is no edition of VPC that officially supports Vista yet. Vista will
be supported officially on VPC 2007 when it releases in a couple of
months.

As Richard says, VPC 2007 beta is your best bet. I would not use VPC 2004
SP1. VPC 2007 beta virtual machine additions support Vista very nicely
now.

I have run all four editions of Vista x86 on VPC 2007 beta without
incident. However, I have run MSDN licenses only. The EULAs for Home
Basic and Home Premium do not permit using the retail licenses in a
virtual machine.

Saucy said:
Are any of you running all the versions of Vista RTM?

On two computers, I'm running:

VU64
VU32
VBus32
VBasic32
Server200332

I use Server 2003 as a base OS on one of them and ran bootpart. Now each
thinks it's on a primary partition [c:] and I can boot to any of them.

I'm also wondering about virutal machines. Does Vista support Virtual PC
2004 and does Virtual PC 2004 support Vista either "offically" or
"actuality" [e.g. although VPC2004 isn't offically support on Sever 2003,
it seems to run without issues]?

I've (re)installed VistaU about four times now and VBus two or three
times and will be doing it again today. I already noticed one little
"bug" in the install routine last time and want to go through the install
process again.

Thanks
 

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