Virtual PC 2007 ??

[dwolf]

There are a couple of issues in Vista I have that cause me grief.. One is
the cd's I burn from Vista do not play in all of my players..
I was doing the dual boot thing, but did not like the restore point issue,
So my Xp drive has been disconnected.
Now I see virtual pc is an option..
And warnings about going this route ?

Thanks Joel

 

[Jeanette]

There are a couple of issues in Vista I have that cause me grief.. One
is the cd's I burn from Vista do not play in all of my players..
I was doing the dual boot thing, but did not like the restore point
issue, So my Xp drive has been disconnected.
Now I see virtual pc is an option..
And warnings about going this route ?

Thanks Joel

I don't see any. Seems to be a viable option to run XP in the
virtual machine. If you have a copy of XP then it will cost even less.

 

[Daniel F Valot]

Joel,

Depends on which system is the host. The virtualised PC has limited access
to hardware (no USB, no printer, and probably no burner).
So if you run Virtual PC on XP as host system, with Vista inside the virtual
PC, you will be able to do anything you were doing under XP.
Vista will be slow due to limited memory size, but XP will not delete Vista
restore points. Vista will run without Aero.
Printer access from Vista will be through the network.

If you have Vista as host system, Vista fonctions will not be limited (by
Virtual PC). XP will run better than Vista inside a virtual PC because it is
less memory hungry. No problem either with Vista restore points.

Virtual PC 2007 is very reliable. I use it every day (with Windows XP as
host system) for cross system developpement. Never crashed on me. I never
tested Vista as host system for Virtual PC 2007.

Daniel

 

[Tiberius]

By advice:

dual boot the machine with XP too and forget about vista