Sat Jul 15 18:41:56 UTC 2006

Microsoft Virtual PC

Microsoft has released VirtualPC, which is a VMWare-like application, for free. Since I am using Windows at work (involuntarily...), I decided to run some test installations on several virtual machines. And the results are intriguing:

  • The overall performance is great (tested under an fairly standard 2.4GHz Pentium IV system with 512MB RAM).
  • FreeBSD 6.0 works smoothly. So does DragonFlyBSD.
  • Project Honeypot LiveCD is usable.
  • Windows versions such as 98 and 95 automagically detect my multimedia hardware so that I may use them for gaming^W research purposes

Finally, a screenshot (thus making my blog a multimedia blog ;-) ):

VirtualPC Screenshot

Posted by Canmore | Permanent link | File under: Musings
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