Hi Ronald,
Quote:
> It's only mandatory in the version of VPC for Windows 7. It remains to
> be seen if MS will release a complete new version of VPC with the
> option to enable/disable VT.
Well one product I was thinking of was Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008. I'm
mainly moaning because I purchased a small server, with the similar
performance to my desktop PC hoping that I would be able to mess about with
the SoftGrid capabilities and virtualise Visual Studio, which I was also
hoping would streamline my work process.
Unfortunately I can't even install it lol! More fool me for not checking
the capabilities of my system first, but still the question is worth asking.
I wouldn't even mind a "slower" implementation of the technologies just so I
can have a play with it and see how it effects my work.
Quote:
> I think they will because for full compatibility with old programs you
> cannot just have VT you need actual full emulation (which no Connectix/
> VPC/Vmware product has ever done) or dynamic recompilation.
>
> It's mandatory in VPC for Windows 7 because they wanted to make sure
> that the people running it had the hardware to run it and had a good
> experience running software inside of it. The people using these
> programs wouldn't have any idea of what Virtual PC is so they didn't
> want them to have a reason to complain about performance.
Well tbh, my experience of the Beta of VPC for Windows 7 has been pretty
poor so far. It's dreadfully slow on my laptop that has the Hardware
Virtualsation option. The same VM on my desktop without Hardware
Virtualsation on Virtual PC 2007 is much faster. Then again it is a beta of
course so I can only hope that they do make it an optional feature because I
would like to continue to use VMs for developing in.
I'm sure people running Virtualised software would have some kind of an idea
of what's happening, and if not they would still need the hardware to be
able to do so. How many companies will upgrade every employees laptop to
Hardware Virtualisation standards to support this product? It's going to
cost a fortune.
I guess the thing here is that I don't use VM features for legacy apps, I
just do it so I can create a consistent development environment, and
technically it's the developers that are being sh*t on here. Then again we
always are! lol!
Nick.