Jan 20, 2018 Virtual PC 2007 SP1 do not work on Windows 10 version 32 bit This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Virtual PC 2007 64 bit under Help says processor is pentium III (86) when computer says 64 bit. I'm beginning to believe that pc 2007 64 bit only runs 32 bit operating systems.
The first, and lesser of the two problems, is that Nikon still doesn’t make a Nikon RAW codec that works with 64-bit Vista. The second problem—and more substantial from a work perspective—is that I can’t get VPN working with our older Cisco concentrators. So I’d typically boot up my laptop, which does run Vista 32-bit, and connect via VPN using the laptop. That’s a little inconvenient, however.
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Finally, it sank into my thick skull: run the Cisco VPN connection software in a 32-bit OS on my production system. No, I didn’t give up on 64-bit Vista. Instead, I’m running 32-bit Vista using the free version of. Pic: vista in vm.jpg Title: Vista on Vista Caption: Running 32-bit Vista on 64-bit Vista in a virtual machine.
Users familiar with VMs will no doubt shrug, and say, “What took you so long?” It certainly did take some time to sink into my brain; I had long tried to figure out why I’d want to run a VM on my home production system. Since then, I’ve also installed Windows XP under a VM, in order to easily fool around with XP.
But mostly, it’s useful to me to connect via VPN to the Ziff-Davis intranet. There are a few limitations. Virtual PC 2007 is itself a 32-bit app (the 64-bit app you download is just a 64-bit installer. You can’t run 64-bit Vista under Vista 32-bit.
That would be a little mind boggling. Also, no Direct3D for you. At best, if you install Virtual Machine Additions (an optional add-on), the virtual OS will emulate an S3 Trio 32/64—which is a 3D chip, but extremely primitive and not capable of running any of today’s 3D apps. That also means no Aero on Vista.
And while I haven’t tried, reports from the field suggest you cannot install any Linux distros on Microsoft Virtual PC (surprise, surprise.) If you want to run Linux in a VM under Windows, you’ll need VMWare or other commercial Virtual Machine software.
Thurlowe: Virtual PC does not support 64-bit guests. You can load Windows 7 32-bit, but some people (myself included) have had very sluggish results (the Virtual PC Additions are not yet optimized for Windows 7). I have Windows 7 32-bit working well on VMWare Workstation (you could use Windows 7 64-bit there if you wanted). It somehow seems wrong to me that Windows 7 runs better on VMWare than on Microsoft's own virtualization technology. In fact it seems to me that Microsoft should be offering pre-release versions of Windows 7 as a virtual machine image that they had made sure worked reliably in Virtual PC.
David Wilkinson Visual C MVP. Robert: When we discussed this before, some folks said Windows 7 worked OK in VPC, and others not. For me, it was totally unusable. The Vista Additions worked, but did not give the dramatic increase in performance that one often sees.
How does one get dual core operation in VMWare Workstation guest? Do you need hardware virtualization? My Athlon64 X2 4200+ does not allow hardware virtualization on my motherboard (Asus A8N-E, Socket 939). Even with single core, Windows 7 works quite well in Workstation, though there are some graphical effects that do not seem to work the way I see them described. If I have time I will dual boot to Windows 7 x64 on my real hardware.
I have BootIt NG all set up to do it; in fact I have Vista x64 installed as a multi-boot alternative, but I almost never use it). David Wilkinson Visual C MVP. Robert: When we discussed this before, some folks said Windows 7 worked OK in VPC, and others not. For me, it was totally unusable. The Vista Additions worked, but did not give the dramatic increase in performance that one often sees.
How does one get dual core operation in VMWare Workstation guest? Do you need hardware virtualization? My Athlon64 X2 4200+ does not allow hardware virtualization on my motherboard (Asus A8N-E, Socket 939). Even with single core, Windows 7 works quite well in Workstation, though there are some graphical effects that do not seem to work the way I see them described. If I have time I will dual boot to Windows 7 x64 on my real hardware. I have BootIt NG all set up to do it; in fact I have Vista x64 installed as a multi-boot alternative, but I almost never use it).