I probably should have taken a few screenshots of the whole process, but for now you’ll just have to live with a screenshot of the OS virtualized post-installation. After installing the Virtual Machine Tools, the Windows 7 is running much faster and all the visualizations (spinning wheel) are running much more smooth. ![]() I did notice that before installing the tools, my video adapter was only showing 4MB of memory available from within the guest OS. I was sad to find that the OS was running really slow when I first booted into it, but after reading a few more posts on the internet I heard that installing the Virtual Machine Tools would help speed things up. The installation process seemed to run fairly slow and I’m not sure if this is due to running it in a virtualized environment or because I was installing it to a laptop hard-drive, but I figured it would speed up once I actually got into the OS. I have 4 GB of physical RAM in my laptop, so I opted to use 2GB for the guest OS. I created a new VHD and used the Windows Vista settings. ![]() The installation was pretty straight-forward, but from what I read you should make sure you have the latest version of Virtual PC. The latest version, called Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, allows users to conveniently run multiple. The whole process did take over two hours (over half of it downloading the 2+ GB ISO), but because it was all virtualized I continued using my computer to surf the web in the background. Microsoft Virtual PC is one of the top contenders in a growing line of Virtual Machine utilities. ![]() I’ve been hearing a bunch of hype about Windows 7, I’ve seen the youtube videos, and have even seen some in person demos but I was finally ready to take a look at the OS myself. You can however run other virtual machines with Windows Virtual PC, even in parallell with XP Mode. As Windows Virtual PC require HW assisted virtualization this does not work on all hardware and in those cases stick with Virtual PC 2007. I’m running Windows Vista Ultimate as my host OS and recently downloaded Virtual PC 2007 SP1 from the Microsoft website for testing some older OSes and browsers. Windows XP Mode is based on the successor of Virtual PC 2007 SP1 and goes by the name 'Windows Virtual PC'. I downloaded and installed Windows 7 as a guest OS in Virtual PC 2007 SP1.
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