1/18/2024 0 Comments Microsoft virtual pc 2004![]() The concept is similar to backup strategies. How to use Virtual PC and still save lots of room: differencing disks Must be space friendly for management, portability, and backup.Must be very easy & fast to run-up a new VPC.I realized I needed a plan: how to best arrange & configure my VPCs to facilitate the following: I don’t think my situation is that far from what many developers experience (except for you independents): (1) I have a work laptop and a desktop home, (2) when I’m home, I don’t want to pull my laptop out, much less use my work laptop for personal projects, (3) I don’t want to run Windows 2003 Server as my primary OS, I prefer WinXP Pro. This config is plenty to make my VPC experience as close to a real PC experience (i.e.: working directly on your host OS). All my VPCs reside in a single folder on my data drive. My machine at home is a P4 2.2Ghz w/ Hyper Threading tech, 2GB RAM, and a 30GB drive for OS/apps and a 300GB drive for data. The most significant issue with VPCs is the hardware requirements to make your experience not feel like you’re in a virtual environment. In moving all development to VPCs, I’m hoping to eliminate/reduce the need for rebuilds that seem to be required every 6-12 months or so. Why? Seems that my desktop home gets so cluttered with different apps and more and more freeware/shareware/beta/alpha development utilities that eventually, it hoses up and warrants a rebuild, something I hate doing and clearly doesn’t pass the SAF (spousal acceptance factor). Instead, I decided I’d move all of my development to a VPC environment. Recently I elected to not install any development applications (Visual Studio, SQL Server, testing apps & utilities, etc) on my primary desktop at home after a fresh build of the entire machine. ![]() If you’ve used it and you’re a SharePoint developer, or someone who works with server software quite a bit, you probably share my experiences and opinions related to management and installations. (running MCMS and SharePoint require some specific configurations). You can download this free virtualization platform, here.Ever since Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 (VPC) was released, I’ve been using it for development tasks… specifically SharePoint related projects since it requires Windows 2003 and all my desktops have WinXP Pro installed. Improved performance over the previous version of Virtual PC 2004 Support for Windows Vista as a guest operating system Support for Windows Vista 64-bit as a host The new version, free of charge, added the following features: The desktop virtualization platform is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and is supported on Windows XP Pro, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. Microsoft finally released its latest, and probably its last version of Virtual PC into the wild. ![]() With the world's view on how much virtualization should cost constantly changing, Microsoft added to that price fluctuation back in July when it announced that it would be giving away its Virtual PC 2004 SP1 product as well as its future release of Virtual PC 2007. And then back in February of 2003, Microsoft acquired that technology and then shortly thereafter released Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. ![]() It's been a long road since Connectix Corporation first came out with Connectix Virtual PC.
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