Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 is now free!!! :)

SUBMAN1 · 07-13-06, 05:40 PM

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

Ignore its req’s – it’s the full version. I’ve run this for years but I always had a partner version from my company.

You can run another OS simulatnously with XP on this. Run win 98 in a window, win 2000, DOS, Linux – whatever - even all at the same time.

-S

kiwi_2005 · 07-13-06, 05:45 PM

A good find subman!

SUBMAN1 · 07-13-06, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

A good find subman!

I thought so too! Thx!

NOw I have 10 useless licenses for it (Its in my partner pack), but now I don't need a license!

-S

TteFAboB · 07-13-06, 05:58 PM

What's the purpose of this thing?

SUBMAN1 · 07-13-06, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by TteFAboB

What's the purpose of this thing?

Damn you Nick Burns, I mean, Subman.

You can run a virtual OS inside of Windows. Suppose you had a Linux app you wanted to run - run Linux while doing other things in Windows.

Want to play with Windows 95 or WIndows 2000 or even another copy of Windows XP running 'inside' Windows XP? You can! Ever wanted to see how a program is going to affect your windows XP installation before you run it on XP? Again - you can.

The short of it is - it creates a shell that doesn't let the other host OS know that it is not running natively. THe only downside is - you lose some speed since WIndows must now maintain two OS's at once - but if you have the shell in the forground on Windows - then it is not noticeable - that is how efficient it is.

Linux or alternate OS's however will run slower since they are making non standard disc calls, etc as compared to Windows, but it does work. I compiled a copy of Gentoo into a shell once. Only trick is - you can't use virtual HD space for the virtual HD - you have to dedicate 'real' hard drive space to the Linux install, even though you will be able to run ext2/ext3 etc on top of NTFS so don't think you need to run it on its own seperate partition - Linux will function and not know its ext3 etc is running from 'within' an NTFS partition.

It is hard to explain without getting technical, so I hope you get the jist of it.

-S

07-13-06, 05:40 PM	#1
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 is now free!!! :) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en Ignore its req’s – it’s the full version. I’ve run this for years but I always had a partner version from my company. You can run another OS simulatnously with XP on this. Run win 98 in a window, win 2000, DOS, Linux – whatever - even all at the same time. -S __________________

07-13-06, 05:45 PM	#2
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	A good find subman! __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

07-13-06, 05:58 PM	#4
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	What's the purpose of this thing? __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand Last edited by TteFAboB; 07-13-06 at 06:01 PM.