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VIRTUAL PC CONNECTIX INSTALL
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"We're glad to see Virtual PC go into such good hands."īut the real reason Microsoft purchased the technology is Connectix Virtual Server, a beta product which will eventually help the company migrate customers off of the legacy Windows NT 4.0 system. "Adding Virtual PC to its product portfolio is yet another example of Microsoft's continued commitment to the Mac platform," said Ron Okamoto, vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple. "With this acquisition, we are committed to delivering this solution for our customers and providing the support they need both today and in the future."ĭespite concerns from the Mac community that Microsoft's purchase of most of Connectix's assets means that the Mac version of Virtual PC was dead, Microsoft says this isn't the case at all, and the company intends to continue improving the product. "Our customers told us they wanted a best-of-breed virtual machine solution that enables them to run their legacy Windows applications, even as they migrate to more modern operating system technology," says Bill Veghte, the corporate vice president of the Windows Server Group at Microsoft. Microsoft purchased both the server and client versions of Connectix's virtual machine technologies, which runs on Windows server and desktop OSes and on the Macintosh. The company says that the Connectix technology will enable Microsoft to support a virtual machine (VM) solution by adding tools that will help customers consolidate server resources, reducing hardware capital expenditures and operating costs. However, it has the advantage of a simple interface, and virtual PCs are treated as a folder under Windows 7, where you can create a VM in the top bar of explorer.Microsoft announced late Wednesday that it was buying the virtual machine assets of Connectix, which makes the excellent Virtual PC line of products. The main differences is lack of GUI floppy addition (if you want a floppy disk, you need to directly edit config).

VIRTUAL PC CONNECTIX 64 BIT

It works on 64 bit versions of Windows unlike it's predecessor, but still doesn't emulate a 64 bit environment.

VIRTUAL PC CONNECTIX WINDOWS 7

Microsoft Virtual PC for Windows 7 was renamed to Windows Virtual PC. Recent compilers will use them as an optimization and may cause your Kernel to not run on VPC.

Virtual PC will throw an undefined opcode exception if a multibyte-nop (e.g. CON: Windows only can't run it on non-windows operating systems.CON: No APM support and minimal ACPI support.Tested on a machine with a Core 2 Duo (64-bit) and it triple-faulted. CON: Apparently doesn't support 64-bit hardware.

VIRTUAL PC CONNECTIX SERIAL

It doesn't support VBE 3.0 (the one with protected-mode access), BIOS32 for PCI (although that is easily implemented without the BIOS), or loopback mode for the serial UARTs.

CON: It only supports a minimal set of hardware - just enough for decent use.

See this post on Virtual PC Guy's MSDN blog. Oddly enough, 32-bit color _is_ supported. It looks like some kind of 1980's computer with a defective CRT.

CON: 15- and 24-bit graphics modes aren't supported in the emulated S3 Trio (but they are in the real one), they screw up the display.

Just enter \\.\pipe\yourpipename into the configuration page for COM1 or COM2, and connect your debugger (on the host PC) to the same pipe.

PRO: If you integrate a simple debugger and serial I/O into your OS, you can debug it over a named pipe.

PRO: Supports "dynamically expanding" disk images that start at a miniature size and expand when data is added.

PRO: Fixed size disk images are very easy to work with and can be shared by Virtual PC and Bochs :).

PRO: It provides PCI configuration method 1 support and SMBIOS ( Bochs seemingly does not).

Summary: It is okay, but doesn't have an integrated debugger.

A free downloadable version of VPC is available from Microsoft's website.

It has a very similar feel to the VMware PC emulator, and provides most of the same functions, and is free. (Tested with Linux and several hobbyist OSes.)

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It natively provides support for Windows operating systems, but, using the 'Other' option, it is possible to install and run pretty much any Operating System. Microsoft Virtual PC is Microsoft's release of a product line they acquired from Connectix in February 2003.