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    Any way to have both Virtual PC 2004 and 2007 installed?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Apollo13, Apr 6, 2008.

  1. Apollo13

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    Is this possible? I downloaded the Virtual PC 2007 installer, but it wanted to replace Virtual PC 2004 with Virtual PC 2007. I've thought of backing up all my Virtual PC 2004 files to DVD and then just copying them back after I install Virtual PC 2007 and hoping they still work, but with .dll's and system files and all I'm not entirely confident that will work.

    The reason I want Virtual PC 2007 is to take advantage of virtualization technology on the CPU.

    The reason I want Virtual PC 2004 is that Virtual PC 2007 will not run OS/2 Warp 3 at all.

    The reason I don't want VMWare is that it is not free and I generally try to conserve money first.

    They both were easy enough to get working in VPC 2004 at least.
     
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    Oh. I guess I misremembered then. It would still be preferable to have both due to the 20-30% performance increase from Intel Virtualization Technology though.
     
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    You can use VMware Player or Server. Both are free.
     
    Jamaicanyouth, Apr 7, 2008
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