You can use Virtual PC 2007 but it does have some restrictions just like all
Virtual machines. You do need to allocate enough memory to the virtual
machine (so you will need to have 2GB or more on your vista machine to start
with in order to allocate 1GB to Vista and 1GB to Win 7)
Because you would be using a virtual machine you will only have 'basic'
display features. This is because you would be using a virtual video driver
rather than the driver of your graphics card. To illustrate what I mean, if
you installed Vista Home Premium, say to a virtual machine the virtual
machine video driver would not display any Aero features. This is a
limitation on the virtual machine. If this doesn't bother you, which it
doesn't bother most testers who use VMs then by all means use a Virtual
machine. If, on the other hand, you want 'all' features then you would
really need to be looking at a dual boot system.
As Win 7 is built on Vista technology Win 7 uses the same boot files as
Vista so removing the dual boot isn't as difficult as say Windows XP and
Vista.
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John Barnett MVP
Windows XP Associate Expert
Windows Desktop Experience
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