Vista - VPC 2007 vs. VMware Workstation

I just want to do some divx encoding and have had excellent results with the official divx converter. unfortunately it does not work in x64 so i wanna run an x86 xp pro image to do this.

anyone have any reasons on y i should choose one app over the other?

i'm also thinking about doing dual-boot, but with vmware or virtual pc, i can still be online and web browsing the way i want without installing all the software again.

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:11:50 -0600, mpegripper
<guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:
Both products have limited video graphics capabilities so you should
specifically check this.
Why would installation be any different? A virtual machine is just
like any ordinary PC and needs you to install the application software
you will use on it just like you would if you dual-booted or used a
physically separated second PC...
And first of all you need to install the operating system of course.
--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

"mpegripper" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:3b2bf985621ecb1235a948296cba9b1d@xxxxxx-gateway.com...Are you talking about Vista 64? Have you tried installing/running it in XP
compatibility mode?

didn't work for me

i'm saying if i run vmware i don't need to reinstall things like pidgin as i can run vmware while i'm on pidgin on my vista instance. with a dual boot setup, i'd actually have to install pidgin and all my other apps again.