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Title: A Good Virtualization Option

Author: Brooks, Jason Article Type: Review
Source: eWeek, v24 n8 p33(2) Publication Date: Mar 5, 2007
  ISSN: 1530-6283
  Illustrations: Screen Layouts, Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.eweek.com

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, a low-cost way to get virtualization that meets the testing, support and application compatibility needs of developers and administrators, was tested on VPC 2007 on a Hewlett-Packard (HP) notebook with an AMD Turion64 x2 processor, 2GB RAM, and Windows Vista Ultimate. The system used AMD's virtualization extensions, and VPC 2007 could recognize the extensions. The setup allowed testers to enable either globally or per-VM. There was no perceptible significant difference in performance with extensions enabled. VPC 2007 runs on the Business, Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Vista and on the Professional and Tablet PC editions of Windows XP. VPC 2007 in specific supports only Windows and OS/2, and it provides VM additions for improvements to mouse and video performance. Without such additions, mouse and keyboard performance was below average during testing. Testers found that they saved considerable time in generating new VMs based on updated parent VMs. The software shipped on a new Windows XP Professional SP2 and Fedora Core 5 isos, and large numbers of updates had to be fully patched. Testers were able to install Red Hat Fedora Core 5 as a guest operating system, but because the keyboard/mouse-enhancements were not available, the mouse and display did not work well.

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Microsoft Corp

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Virtual PC 2007

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