This explains why the sharing settings look similiar to that of the Remote Desktop client that comes with every version of Windows – maybe Microsoft is just too lazy to re-write the code in a different way… This will make it unusable in many other older guest OS’es such as Windows 98 and will also reduce the speed. Integration Features is implemented as a remote desktop session into the Virtual Machine.Limited file sharing capabilites: Integration features only support sharing of entire hard disk disk user cannot share a specific folder as they could in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.While I may not have used Windows Virtual PC extensively, the newly so-called Integration Features seems to be worse than its predecessor, Virtual Machine Additions: Since Microsoft Virtual PC refuses to install on Windows 7, owners of these computers will have no choice but to use other emulator software, unless they plan to downgrade to Windows XP.Ģ. In other words, many older computers that can run Windows 7 smoothly will not be able to run Windows Virtual PC. Windows Virtual PC requires hardware virtualization and will not run without it, even though it does not always use this feature. What make it worse despite the improvements…ġ. This feature has long been present on other emulators (VMware, Sun Virtual Box, etc.) but is not present in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.

USB devices plugged into the host machine can be detected by the guest operating system. User can now browse through the list of virtual machines using an Explorer-like interface, instead of the ugly-looking window that can only support a maximum of 3 virtual machines (without scrolling) in the old Microsoft Virtual PC.Ģ. Seamless integration with Windows Explorer. However, while Windows Virtual PC is the next version of Microsoft Virtual PC and has some remarkably new features, the software as a whole still disappoints me. In an attempt to run Windows XP applications on Windows 7 via Windows XP Mode, I recently tried out Windows Virtual PC.

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