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    • Windows XP Mode has RTM’d

    Sunday, October 4th, 2009

    From Windows Team blog:
    Thanks to everyone’s feedback, we’re happy to announce that Windows XP Mode has RTM’d today. We expect to make the final release of Windows XP Mode available via the Microsoft Download Center on October 22nd. OEMs will be able to offer Windows XP Mode on their PCs based on their manufacturing schedules. [...]

    How to install Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7?

    Thursday, August 20th, 2009

    Windows Virtual PC requires hardware-assisted virtualization. But what if your processor doesn’t support it? Then you may want to install Virtual PC 2007, but in most cases, you get an error saying:
    This program is blocked due to compatibility issues. Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is not supported on this version of Windows. For more information, [...]

    Download XP Mode RC

    Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

    According to The Windows Team Blog, XP Mode for Windows 7 is now release candidate (RC). Windows XP Mode is add-on for Windows 7, which enables you to get FREE copy of Windows XP that you can run virtually. Why do you need this? If you have some old application that doesn’t work in [...]

    Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 boot from VHD

    Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

    One of the great new features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is ability to boot the operating system from VHD file. Why? Look at this example. My colleague, Ales Rosina, Microsoft Student Partner from Slovenia recently wanted to have Windows7 as a virtual operating system inside VirtualPC, for quick access, testing… [...]

    Windows XP mode

    Friday, June 26th, 2009

    As I wrote in my post Virtual PC is completely integrated in Windows 7, new Windows Virtual PC has new great feature, called Windows XP mode. It is free Windows XP operating system that you can download with a new Windows Virtual PC, you can of course run it virtually, but that’s not the point. [...]

    Hybrid virtualization

    Friday, November 21st, 2008

    Let’s continue with our virtualization school for beginners. In my previous post, I have explained Type 2 virtualization. In this post, I’ll give you simple schema and description of Hybrid virtualization. In this virtualizaton type, both host OS and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) run directly on the hardware, but with different levels of access to [...]