VPC 2007 beta is available

[Colin Barnhorst]

VPC 2007 beta is now available for download on Microsoft Connect. Look for
it under Available Connections.

I am running VPC 2007 beta on XP Pro x64 (and Vista 5744 x64) now and
installing Vista
RC2. Installation is now very straightforward. The default vhd size is now
64GB for Vista. The default memory for Vista is 512MB so change that to
1024MB if you have the ram. The VPC 2007 emulated cd/dvd drive now supports
a full 4.2GB dvd image file so just drop the .iso on the drive icon and go.

Installation of Vista into a vm is faster on my VT enabled Core 2 Duo system
than it is on bare metal on my AMD64 x2 machine! VPC 2007 is great!

 

[Richard Urban]

VPC 2007 beta is now available for download on Microsoft Connect. Look
for
it under Available Connections.

I am running VPC 2007 beta on XP Pro x64 (and Vista 5744 x64) now and
installing Vista
RC2. Installation is now very straightforward. The default vhd size is
now
64GB for Vista. The default memory for Vista is 512MB so change that to
1024MB if you have the ram. The VPC 2007 emulated cd/dvd drive now
supports
a full 4.2GB dvd image file so just drop the .iso on the drive icon and
go.

Installation of Vista into a vm is faster on my VT enabled Core 2 Duo
system
than it is on bare metal on my AMD64 x2 machine! VPC 2007 is great!

I just installed it on Vista RC2 5744. It installed w/o any problems and is
working fine.

I am currently running Windows 2000 within it, on top of Vista.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Posted using Vista RC2 5744

(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!

 

[Intel Inside]

"VT enabled"
what's that Colin?.

 

[humphry]

I went to the ABOUT and it says 2003 and that its still version 2004...
and it looks just like 2004.... lol
in the add remove programs it says 2007..

is this a split personality syndrom?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

VT = virtualization technology (Intel) or Pacifica tecnology (AMD). VT
enabled cpu's provide for use of a hypervisor which can organize the
instructions streams from both the host and any guest operatings systems so
that "ring compression" software is not need to sheild the host OS from
guest requests for cpu access. Most of the overhead in using emulations to
run virtual machines has been due to ring compression software (rings are
cpu permission levels). The performace gain from getting rid of ring
compression is usually dramatic.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Maybe its called "a beta".

I went to the ABOUT and it says 2003 and that its still version 2004...
and it looks just like 2004.... lol
in the add remove programs it says 2007..

is this a split personality syndrom?

 

[William]

Hi Colin;

I downloaded and installed VPC 2007 beta and have mixed thoughts about this one. It is an improvement over the previous versions in that is allows for great control of the variables, such as the size of the virtual hard drive created. I never liked having the only choice a 16 gb hard drive. However, I do not like the fact that it seems that most Linux distributions will not run on it. In this I think VMware is still better than VPC 2007. Every once in a while a distribution of Linux comes around and I like to give it a try by running it in VMware rather than taking the chance and loading it on my main computer and then realizing after a couple of hours that it is a crappy distribution and having to re-install my Windows OS all over again with data and applications (about 3 hours).

William
Maybe its called "a beta".

 

[Intel Inside]

Is this the case Colin "it seems that most Linux distributions will not run
on it."?
Sounds incredulous for a Virtual Machine.



Hi Colin;

I downloaded and installed VPC 2007 beta and have mixed thoughts about this
one. It is an improvement over the previous versions in that is allows for
great control of the variables, such as the size of the virtual hard drive
created. I never liked having the only choice a 16 gb hard drive. However, I
do not like the fact that it seems that most Linux distributions will not
run on it. In this I think VMware is still better than VPC 2007. Every once
in a while a distribution of Linux comes around and I like to give it a try
by running it in VMware rather than taking the chance and loading it on my
main computer and then realizing after a couple of hours that it is a crappy
distribution and having to re-install my Windows OS all over again with data
and applications (about 3 hours).

William
Maybe its called "a beta".

 

[humphry]

what kind of an excuse is that? Betas should be marked as betas... of the
product they represent...

you must detoxify yourself from microsoft...too much vista is bad for the
health...