1

I have a couple of Windows 2000 Virtual machines. The virtual machine built into Windows 7 runs WinXP VMs fine, but anything previous to that...the experience is pretty crappy (for one, integration components won't install).

How does one run VMs on Win7 x64? I looked up Virtual PC 2007 and it says Win7 is not supported (Vista is though).

Anyone have experience with this?

4 Answers 4

2

While VirtualBox is highly recommended, you can still get Virtual PC for windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

4

VirtualBox is an excellent tool. Open source and support most OS. There is an open source version as well as a free/paid version (with some closed source features). The license is very generous even for commercial use.

2

You can use third-party software to run a larger number of virtual machine variants. Take a look at something like VMWare Workstation -- it runs on Windows 7 and can run all kind of OS variants in its hypervisor.

VMWare makes a tool called VMWare vCenter Converter than can convert Microsoft Hyper-V VMs to the VMWare format. It's free to use the standalone converter if you don't want support.

1

As well with VMWare, as said before, I highly recommend Virtualbox. It is open source, has a good community, and good additions in order to control your VM better. It works with any system.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.

EDIT by enedene:
Virtualbox is great, it's free, but only OSE version is open source. OSE lacks USB support. I use it all the time and can confirm it's great, however I'm not sure about windows2000 support, that needs to be checked, winXP works fine.

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .