Virtual PC's, your experiences
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:22 pm
I have recently been playing around with "Microsoft Virtual PC 2007" and was dismayed to find that I could not install any drivers leaving the Virtual PC (XP Pro in this case) as an impotent and largely pointless enterprise. Many had said that drivers could be installed if you did this and that, once I had done this and that I was left in the same situation as before, reliant on the "generic" drivers that included no 3D support and no networking, but I did have sound from the outset.
I thought to myself, this is really not a "Virtual PC" at all this is nothing more than emulation - quite pathetic to have a modern PC with no 3D graphics or networking, after all the point of this for me is to play old PC games that refuse to run on W7 x64, and to play around with "Domain's" and "Active Directories" without cocking around with my home network - a "Virtual Network" within a network would be perfect to hone my skills to get a better job (working knowledge of Active Directory is a must, but how do you get that knowledge at no-cost and without a job doing it.? At home, virtually is the answer I came up with.)
I have since moved onto "Oracle's Virtual Box", but due to my broadband going a little weak at the knees today I have been unable to download the XP drivers for the installation on Virtual Box. This does look far more promising than Microsoft's lame attempt - it has far more features and control, and most importantly to me has been nagging me to install Graphics, Networking and Sound drivers - this looks like it should do the trick - but I will have to wait until tomorrow - a few social beers are calling me.
If this does not work the next step is "VMware", although I did want to stick to something that is free to use and ideally "Host OS" portable like "Virtual Box" is.
Has anyone else used any "Virtual PC" or "Virtual Server" software that actually works as you would hope it would (a fully functioning OS running within another "Host" OS).? I would like to hear your thoughts and experiences.
Andy
I thought to myself, this is really not a "Virtual PC" at all this is nothing more than emulation - quite pathetic to have a modern PC with no 3D graphics or networking, after all the point of this for me is to play old PC games that refuse to run on W7 x64, and to play around with "Domain's" and "Active Directories" without cocking around with my home network - a "Virtual Network" within a network would be perfect to hone my skills to get a better job (working knowledge of Active Directory is a must, but how do you get that knowledge at no-cost and without a job doing it.? At home, virtually is the answer I came up with.)
I have since moved onto "Oracle's Virtual Box", but due to my broadband going a little weak at the knees today I have been unable to download the XP drivers for the installation on Virtual Box. This does look far more promising than Microsoft's lame attempt - it has far more features and control, and most importantly to me has been nagging me to install Graphics, Networking and Sound drivers - this looks like it should do the trick - but I will have to wait until tomorrow - a few social beers are calling me.
If this does not work the next step is "VMware", although I did want to stick to something that is free to use and ideally "Host OS" portable like "Virtual Box" is.
Has anyone else used any "Virtual PC" or "Virtual Server" software that actually works as you would hope it would (a fully functioning OS running within another "Host" OS).? I would like to hear your thoughts and experiences.
Andy