Virtual PC '07 issues

[mooseracing]

I downloaded V Pc 07 from microsofts site, the 64bit one. Installed fine on my Vista Ultimate 64 then when I go to install XP 64 in V PC it says this isn't a 64 bit CPU. And in the about under help of V pc it says the pc is an AMD Pentium x86.

Is there a setting or something i'm missing? The CPU is an AMD x64 3200

 

[mayest]

Sorry that I don't know the answer directly. However, I do use VMWare and the hardware is all virtual (though I think that they have a patch for 64-bit OS support). I suspect that VPC uses a virtual 32-bit processor, and probably everything else as well.

 

[Nothinman]

I didn't think VPC supported 64-bit guests yet.

 

[RebateMonger]

Microsoft: Virtual PC 2007 release notes

"...there is no support for 64-bit guest operating systems."

 

[stash]

Yeah none of the MS virtualization offerings support 64-bit guests yet. The first one will be Windows Server Virtualization.

http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=5119240c-6579-4827-8338-7f5539930402

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: stash
Yeah none of the MS virtualization offerings support 64-bit guests yet. The first one will be Windows Server Virtualization.

http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=5119240c-6579-4827-8338-7f5539930402

Interesting. Is that supposed to be a competitor for ESX?

 

[stash]

Yep. Free too.

 

[mooseracing]

doh....feel like an idiot now. I must have read it wrong. So much for my plans of using that

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: stash
Yep. Free too.

Hot Deals Thread of it

 

[stash]

^^
Yes VPC 2007 is free (so is VS 2005), but I'm taking about Windows Server Virtualization, the competitor product to VMware ESX which has not been released yet. But it will also be free.

 

[JackBurton]

That's awesome stash. I'm goign to check out Windows Server Virtualization. ESX 3.0 is pretty bad ass, so we'll see what MS can do.