![]() I almost wonder if there is a way to run VPC 2004 or 5 on Windows 7 natively for running older stuff… It seems this VPC version is more like the hypervisor in 2008, then like the old Virtual PC we all knew. Also you need to have a CPU with the new virtualization extensions. The mouse is very erratic on RHEL 4 that I had to setup to emulate a production environment. The down side, is that other OS’s seem to perform poorly under this version of VPC. Publishing apps to the Windows 7 desktop is easy, just paste a shortcut under the “all users” start menu, and the screen will blink and it’s available. Start Windows XP in a “normal” desktop environment, install whatever it is you want to run. Then install the Windows XP msi file (it’s over 450MB) and you’ll get a fully installed copy of Windows XP ready to go, and best of all you don’t have to configure anything. Setup is straight forward, just install the Virtual PC component, then Windows 7 will want to reboot. I’ll have to snag a VHD with MS-DOS pre-installed along with whatever integration tools I have around.Īnyways, the install is a snap, you can find all the components here. Another minor (is it?) annoyance is that the new version of Virtual PC has NO floppy driver support! It also seems to not have sound support, although it’s totally unverified at the moment. Since RDP is the mechanism used, only XP and above will work, sorry Windows 2000 users. While WIN/OS2 used specialized device drivers that could ‘punch thru’ the virtual machine, and render each window on the OS/2 PM display, Windows XP mode, takes the Citrix like approach of using Terminal Services (RDP) to initiate a remote display to the local desktop. Windows XP mode, from the user standpoint is just like the old days of WIN/OS2 from OS/2 2.0 and above. Well it seems to be all the rage in the world of emulation on Windows 7. ![]()
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