Free physical to virtual tool Disk2vhd
Monday, November 16th, 2009Till now, if you wanted to convert your host operating system to virtual one, you had to use System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). It is great product, but it costs some money. But thanks to guys from Sysinternals, now you can create VHD file from your host operating system for free. They have [...]
How to install an application in XP Mode?
Monday, November 16th, 2009I don’t have any old application which doesn’t work on Windows 7, but two weeks ago I needed to test Windows XP Mode and show it during presentation to high-school teachers (here is the info on how to deploy Windows XP Mode). I was very surprised how easy is to install application in XP Mode [...]
How to deploy Windows XP Mode
Friday, October 30th, 2009Windows XP Mode is great new feature in Windows 7. It is Windows XP operating system that you can download from Virtual PC web site, and start it in Windows Virtual PC. Why do you need it? For example, if you have some applications that you can run only on Windows XP or older [...]
Windows XP Mode has RTM’d
Sunday, October 4th, 2009From 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, 2009According 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, 2009One 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, 2009As 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. [...]
Virtual PC on Hyper-V – is that possible?
Thursday, June 25th, 2009If you recall my previous post about trying to start Hyper-V virtual machine on Hyper-V virtual machine, you would see that it’s not possible. But what if you want to have Virtual PC (which does not have hardware requirements) on Hyper-V? Is that possible? Domagoj Pernar, Associate Consultant for virtualization technologies at Microsoft Croatia has [...]
How to add new virtual machine in Virtual PC?
Monday, May 18th, 2009After installing Windows 7 RC, and new Virtual PC that comes as an upgrade, I was a little bit confused, and surprised. As I wrote in my previous post about my first impressions about new Virtual PC, Microsoft has decided to fully integrate Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7, which proves Microsoft’s strategy to have [...]
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