Re: mayayana, you may want to check Virtual PC

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On 2009-01-05, Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2009-01-05, expvb <nobody@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I used to use a test PC and bought a copy of BootIt NG just like you, which
is a great partitioning software, but once my test PC broke and I started
using Virtual PC, I found out that it's much easier to use and a time saver.
Virtual PC requires Windows 2000 at least(2004 edition). And you can run the
test system inside a window and VB6 IDE side by side, or multiple OS's side
by side(if you have the memory). Virtual PC simulates a full PC, including
BIOS boot up. The test system hard disk is saved as binary file(VHD files,
auto expanding), which you can make a copy of if you want to return later to
a clean installation(takes about 1 to 2 minutes). If you enable "Undo Disk",
at the end of the session you are asked to commit the changes or discard
them. If you discard them, the hard disk image stays the way it was before
as if you didn't do anything, and you don't have to stop your work or reboot
your system. This is great to test if your installer works properly.

Click on "See the demo" to the right side of the following page to see how
it looks like and a quick 5 minutes demo:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Virtual PC doesn't come with any OS, so you need an OS CD, or ISO file. If
you have ISO files, you don't need to burn them to CD/DVD first, you can use
Virtual PC's menu to mount them to the guest VM.

Finally, you need to have enough memory for the OS that you are testing.
Testing XP requires 128 MB, Vista requires 512MB, so you need to have more
than that. Virtual PC doesn't compress memory. Here is a link to download a
VHD for Vista:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c2c27337-d4d1-4b9b-926d-86493c7da1aa&DisplayLang=en



I've tried them all, and MS VPC sucks rocks. I personally use VMWare or
Virtual Box. VPC, IMHO, is the slowest and it doesn't support usb.

When, I say all - I don't mean every single vm out there :) I have tried most
of the major ones (VPC, VMWare, Parallels, and Virtual Box).

--
Tom Shelton
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