I noticed that there is a new version of Virtual PC on the way for 2007. I read from the brief that support for Vista was added so I thought I'd check it out on my Tablet. I've used Virtual Server on a daily basis for a while now, and VS is the cornerstone of a virtualization effort going on at the office. I blindly loaded VPC2007 on Vista, uninstalled VS, and loaded my VHDs. With a few barks and grunts, VPC was able to load my VS VHDs just fine. I started poking around on the simplified interface and immediately felt functionality freefall. Assuming VS bias I started researching the differences and immediately found a great article from MS clearly explaining the differences:
In a nutshell, VPC 2007 is a great product if…
- Your running Vista as the host OS and are having troubles with the new User Account Control and your Virtual Server.
- Your using a single PC for server and client.
- You like a richer experience like dragging and dropping files between VMs and hearing sounds.
- You want to try out Vista in a VM.
On the other hand some of us appreciate a greater level of control and don't really care about ease of use. So…
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 is a great product if…
- You running it on a server
- You don't care about Vista quite yet
- Said to yourself "Who needs drag and drop when you can just create a file share on the V-LAN" when you read #3 above
- Would like to use BOTH of your CPUs
I'll prolly keep VPC on my tablet, but that's really the only place it makes sense for me. The rest will run Virtual Server.
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