Comments on: MS Virtual PC Now Free

By: Dan Schulz

Dan Schulz — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:54:50 +0000

Cool. I got a copy of VPC for my birthday last year. Now I feel sorry for the person who went out of his way to get it for me.

By: illogix

illogix — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:34:56 +0000

It is to note that VMWare Pro and VMWare Server are also free and much better products.

If you run Linux, Xen Source is even better.

By: Dave Cardwell

Dave Cardwell — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:02:05 +0000

@nblavoie - according to a microsoft blog,

We’ve already made Virtual Server available for free, so it only makes sense that Virtual PC should follow suit. (Note: This does not include Virtual PC for Mac.)

Lovely.

By: wwb_99

wwb_99 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:51:17 +0000

@dhtmlgod: not stupid, just slightly confused. Virtual Server has been free for a few months, which is a slighly different product from VPC.

By: dhtmlgod

dhtmlgod — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:44:03 +0000

I might just be really stupid, but I think this has been free for a few months now…

By: Eric.Coleman

Eric.Coleman — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:10:53 +0000

I didn’t know the Mac version of VPC even worked on the intel hardware…. if it does, that’s news to me…

By: Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:03:28 +0000

Thanks Craig! Should have persisted!

By: craiga

craiga — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:13:49 +0000

myrdhin — Here’s a list of things that Virtual PC can and can’t run, complete with notes on how to get tricky things up and going.

Matthew Magain — Virtual PC runs just fine on WinXP Home. It does pop up a warning message telling you that it’s unsupported, but I’ve been using it for a while running Windows and Linux inside virtual machines and I’ve had no problems.

By: Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:22:51 +0000

Too bad it doesn’t run on XP Home! Bah!

By: hyperkik

hyperkik — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:23:38 +0000

The Mac version should be free - I have it and it is truly awful - but it appears to still be for sale. With Bootcamp available for Intel-based Macs, I imagine that it will soon be unsupported, free or both.