I was wondering if you know if Virtual PC (not XP Mode) is still supported and avilable for 7 Home Premium?  The system requirements say that Home Premium can run Virtual PC, but when you go to download it, it asks what edition you have and says XP mode isn't avilable for it.  However, if you select Professional or higher, it gives you a download for XP mode and Virtual PC.  If you just download the virtual PC part, will that be fine for Home Premium (then install an OS you own already in the VM)?

DG41RQ and E7500, Bios 11 with Intel VT enabled.  when I run the windows6.1-kb958559 64bit it gives me..."he update is not applicable to your computer" and will not finish install.  any ideas.    larainey@all-city.com

@Ben - thanks for the info!  I had one other question ... on the Virtual PC site, it is saying the application integration is only avilable for the Pro version guests (XP Pro, Vista Business+, 7 Professional+).  However, in the RC I have ran 7 Home Premium as a guest inside 7 ultimate, and it did the program integration (into the host's start menu) great.  Has something changed, or is this one of the things that works but is not "officially supported?"  Also, will a guest install of Windows Server (2003, 2008) do program integration with the host with the correct addon (xp, Vista/7 respectively)?  Thanks!

Hi Ben,

With various test machines that I have built recently I've kinda lost track of which have the RC of Windows Virtual PC and which have the RTM (a matter further compounded with the rather excellent Boot from VHD feature).

Anyway, is there a simple way to determine the build number of the version of Virtual PC deployed to a machine in order to be assured that the RTM is present?

Is it possible to have multiple cores running under Windows XP mode on Windows Virtual PC?  How about other VMs under Windows Virtual PC?  I haven't seen a way to allow more than one CPU core under the client VM.

I'm a developer trying to set up a dev laptop and would prefer to use Windows 7 as the host rather than Windows Server 2008 R2.

I just found out that my brand new quad core procesor (Q8200) is intel's ONLY quad core without virtualization technology! Bummer.

@Luciano, yes it is compatible but Windows Virtual PC 7 and Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 shouldn't/can't be installed both on the same installation.

@Ben and virtualserver

Thanks very much for info

The best solution for one of my machines that has no processor virtualization

Ben, I am very disappointed that shared folder support is gone from Windows VPC.  Floppy support too.  I am now stuck with a DOS machine that is sandboxed.  

I tried mounting the DOS vhd file in Windows 7 but Win 7 could not read the file system!  Must be FAT-16 I'm guessing.

I tried installing VPC 2007 but it would not install.  Next I will try uninstalling Windows VPC and try re-installing VPC 2007 again.

Why did you reduce functionality in this product?  Legacy support is a prime reason for virtual machines.  Will you be removing DOS graphics support next?

@Iain I tried that, except I used VMWare as the host. VPC 2007 installed but would not run in the guest.  You can't have more than one virtualization layer.

I installed VPC 2007 under Windows 7 after un-installing Windows VPC.  Unfortunately VPC 2007 crashes a lot when running DOS; VPC 2004 under Windows XP never did.  I tried to install VPC 2004 under W7 but it would not let me.

Another problem with Windows Virtual PC is that it won't let DOS go full screen, and the graphics are slow.

I may have to keep an XP partition with VPC 2004 on it.  But that's not sustainable in the long term.  Which is why I'm all hot and bothered by MS pulling support for DOS from VPC.

Hello,

I got Virtual PC on my machine, I`m using Windows XP x64 on real PC and Windows XP x32 on Virtual PC.

My problem is only about some games that I`m trying to run on Virtual PC, it just don`t work as in real PC. I belive this issue is related with the video card (is required to run), however on Virtual PC I can`t install the video drives as I did on real PC.

There is any why to fix it? Any update or procedure that I`m missing?

Thanks, any help is welcome.

Thiago Araujo

The network performance between Virtual Machines and host machine is still incredibly poor. Can't believe this hasn't been fixed. This means Windows Virtual PC is not a viable option for us. How can this be so bad compared to Virtual PC?

The hardware assesment tool tols me that my computer is meeting windows virtual pc requirements but when i try to run Windows6.1-KB958559-x64.msu on my windows 7 ultimate x64 RC build 7127 it give me a message says: this update is not applicable on your computer.

although I enabled virtual technology on my core 2 duo 2.33GHz intel processor.

Please help me.

I have windows 7 ultimate X64 (7600)=RTM, I download and install XP mode = success, I download and install Virtual PC = not applicabel to this system? I've tried over and over again, I was installed and running fine on an earlier installation of RTM (I replaced my drives reinstalled from scratch, and restored easy file trasnfer and now it won't install....any ideas?