Supported Windows operating systems can run inside Virtual PC. Virtual PC virtualizes a standard PC and its associated hardware. In August 2006 Microsoft announced the Macintosh-hosted version would not be ported to Intel-based Macintoshes, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macintoshes are no longer manufactured. In July 2006 Microsoft released the Windows-hosted version as a free product. The software was originally written by Connectix, and was subsequently acquired by Microsoft.
#WINDOW VIRTUAL PC FOR MAC OS X#
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 Virtual PC (renamed Windows Virtual PC for the Windows 7 release) is a virtualization suite for Microsoft Windows operating systems, and an emulation suite for Mac OS X on PowerPC-based systems. The main differences is lack of GUI floppy addition (if you want a floppy disk, you need to directly edit config).
#WINDOW VIRTUAL PC 64 BIT#
It works on 64 bit versions of Windows unlike it's predecessor, but still doesn't emulate a 64 bit environment. 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.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.)
#WINDOW VIRTUAL PC INSTALL#
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.
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