Virtual PC 2007 went silently to beta the other week on the 11th of October. It, among other things, supports Windows Vista as a host operating system very well.
- Hardware-assisted virtualization*
Virtual PC 2007 includes support for virtualization technology from Intel and AMD. By default, hardware-assisted virtualization is enabled if the feature is enabled on the physical computer. You can turn this assistance on or off for each virtual machine by modifying the virtual machine settings. - Support for Windows Vista as a host operating system
This beta release of Virtual PC 2007 introduces support for Windows Vista as a host operating system. The following versions of Windows Vista are supported: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate. - Support for Windows Vista as a guest operating system
This beta release of Virtual PC 2007 introduces support for Windows Vista as a guest operating system. The following versions of Windows Vista are supported: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate. - Support for 64-bit host operating system
This beta release of Virtual PC 2007 supports 64-bit host operating systems. However, there is no support for 64-bit guest operating systems.
Access to the beta is pretty much instantaneous. They have posted both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Virtual PC 2007 on the site as well as a special Windows fix for AMD Pacifica Virtualization Technology that’s supposed to be installed BEFORE you install the Virtual PC 2007 beta if you have an AMD chip with Pacifica support.
The 32-bit version is 25.7MB in size while the 64-bit version is a little larger. There is a newsgroup for discussing the product online through Connect.microsoft.com and a place to provide Feedback directly on the site.
REGISTER FOR BETA:
https://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=874
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