Run Virtual OS emulator with Windows 7 from inside Windows 7?

[RayLopez99]

I do have an emulator on my other machine that's a virtual OS, without looking I think it's VMWare freeware. (This machine, a laptop, will not run a virtual OS unless I do something to the BIOS as I recall--too lazy to do so)

Question: can I run Windows 7 as a virtual OS there? I just need to find a licensed version of W7, which I will do at Piratebay.org.

THe reason I ask: sometimes I want to try out a program without installing it on my real W7 OS--so that's why. I don't see any complications, do you?

I already run XP successfully as a virtual OS using VMWare

MIke Easter--this is a question you can easily answer.

RL

 

[Paul]

I do have an emulator on my other machine that's a virtual OS, without looking I think it's VMWare freeware. (This machine, a laptop, will not run a virtual OS unless I do something to the BIOS as I recall--too lazy to do so)

Question: can I run Windows 7 as a virtual OS there? I just need to find a licensed version of W7, which I will do at Piratebay.org.

THe reason I ask: sometimes I want to try out a program without installing it on my real W7 OS--so that's why. I don't see any complications, do you?

I already run XP successfully as a virtual OS using VMWare

MIke Easter--this is a question you can easily answer.

RL

Virtual machine software is quite capable of running OSes without
enabling VT-X or Pacifica. Even the virtual machine software
provided with Windows 7, to run WinXP Mode, no longer needs
"the BIOS setting" to run.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vt-x#Intel_virtualization_.28VT-x.29

Get a copy of VirtualBox, and load up your favorite OS in there.
VirtualBox supports multi-core operation, USB passthru, and a
few other things. The only thing I don't like about it, is
the rather rigid interface and settings. I use the older and
less compatible VPC2007, and its main advantage is the mix and
match nature of configuring the thing. It gets in my way less
often.

I've run my copy of WinXP, inside WinXP, by not activating it.
And that was as a test case. I don't normally use such a
configuration, due to the activation issue. You can run Windows 7
or Windows 8 for a short period of time, without activating as well.
As far as I know, the currently downloadable Windows 8 release preview
versions can be used until some time in January and are perfectly legal.
And that would run in VirtualBox, but not in VPC2007.

If running Windows 8 in VirtualBox, don't change the emulated hardware
settings too much. I did that the first time, and the emulated OS
kept crashing. The default hardware emulation seems to work fine.
Flipping too many knobs, can lead to troubles.

Paul

 

[GlowingBlueMist]

I do have an emulator on my other machine that's a virtual OS, without looking I think it's VMWare freeware. (This machine, a laptop, will not run a virtual OS unless I do something to the BIOS as I recall--too lazy to do so)

Question: can I run Windows 7 as a virtual OS there? I just need to find a licensed version of W7, which I will do at Piratebay.org.

THe reason I ask: sometimes I want to try out a program without installing it on my real W7 OS--so that's why. I don't see any complications, do you?

I already run XP successfully as a virtual OS using VMWare

MIke Easter--this is a question you can easily answer.

RL

I use the program VMWare Player on my Windows 7-32 Pro machine with no
changes needed to anything. It runs Windows 7 Pro and XP with no problems.

According to the Magical Jelly Bean program the CD key is the same for
the Windows 7 in the emulator and my main machine is the same, and both
are activated. I don't remember if that was due to the fact that the
copy was activated a year or more after the main machine or if some
other action or event allowed the duplicate activation.

 

[RayLopez99]

Virtual machine software is quite capable of running OSes without
enabling VT-X or Pacifica. Even the virtual machine software
provided with Windows 7, to run WinXP Mode, no longer needs
"the BIOS setting" to run.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vt-x#Intel_virtualization_.28VT-x.29

Get a copy of VirtualBox, and load up your favorite OS in there.
VirtualBox supports multi-core operation, USB passthru, and a
few other things. The only thing I don't like about it, is
the rather rigid interface and settings. I use the older and
less compatible VPC2007, and its main advantage is the mix and
match nature of configuring the thing. It gets in my way less
often.

OK thanks Paul. This is not exactly what I was asking but actually quite useful. I will try VirtualBox inside this ThinkPad laptop, circa 2009 or so, with a dual core chip and fairly modern Lenovo hw, running Windows 7, which had the motherboard issue (or rather, the BIOS switch you have to set) that you refer to (to quote Wikipedia: "As of 2009 not all Intel processors supported VT-x, which Intel uses to segment its market.[20] Support for VT-x may even vary between different versions (as identified by Intel's sSpec Number) of the same model number.[21] [22] For a complete and up-to-date list see the Intel website.[23] Even in May, 2011, the Intel CPU P6100 which is in laptops does not support hardware virtualization.[24]")

But maybe VirtualBox will get around this issue...

And thanks to you and GlowingBlueMist I will try Windows 8 legally or W7 w/o actuation as my OS in the VM machine, sounds like a good workaround (pirate versions of OSes always have a potential for some malware built into them, though so far I've not had a problem testing out such wares).

Also I will keep in mind what you said about not tweaking too many parameters if I run W8.

RL