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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Virtual PC 2007 is available as a free download but interestingly comes with a pre-filled, grayed-out product ID field.


eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 – VM Creation

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VPC 2007s user interface is relatively spare but includes all the functionality required to whip up VM guests in short order.


eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 – Disk Creation

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VPC 2007 offers flexible virtual disk-building options. We particularly liked the differencing disk option, which allowed us to spawn new machines from a networked parent disk.


eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 – Linux on Windows

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VPC 2007 works with Linux as a guest OS, although not as well as it does with Windows.


eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 – Updating Our Fedora VM

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After watching Fedora crank through hundreds of updates, we were happy to know that our next, differencing disk-based Fedora VMs would begin life with all available updates applied.

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