Vista - Exciting comment about future USB support in a recent interview.

I was just reading the interview of Scott Woodgate by Mary Jo over at MW (
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2621 ) and this wonderful gem appears
about half way down:

"MJF: Will Virtual PC 7 be available independently of Virtual XP? Or are the
two only available hand-in-hand?

Woodgate: Customers can use Windows Virtual PC independently of Windows XP
Mode. We expect developers and IT Professionals to do this, as they do
today, and we catered to these folks by adding the commonly requested support
for USB to Windows Virtual PC."

I was stunned! I think this means we might actually get our long requested
and long denied support for USB devices in the next version of VPC.

I am now anxiously awaiting the next version of VPC to see if this actually
happens!

Xepol wrote:This makes sense, or else they really can't claim it's an XP "compatibility" mode,
as one of the most frequent complaints about moving past XP was driver
inavailability. Well, imagine if you can't even *connect* to the device at all!
Although, certainly, that solves the problem of there being no drivers for it. <g>
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If you are in the Win 7 beta, that could be as early as tomorrow. The
public beta should start soon afterwards (May 5th).

Did you also note that it only runs on Windows 7 and requires hardware
virtualization?

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...-28Win7QA.mspx


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"Bob Campbell" <bob@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Agreed. This new version will be a true competitor for VMWare Workstation...


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Mark Rae [MVP] wrote:Not if it requires w7.
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"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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ROTFL. How can the VMware Player (disguised by MS) compete with VMware
Workstation...

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"Pavel A." <pavel_a@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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What does that mean...?


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Pavel A. wrote:Quotin' the wrong guy. My initial reaction was similar to yours.
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"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The more I learn about WVPC, the clearer it becomes that it is NOT
competition for VMWare. It ONLY supports XP SP3, Vista and 7 as guests.
That's it - no Server 2003, no Server 2008, no Linux, no nothing. It ONLY
supports 7 as the host. It does not run 64 bit guests. If this is
Microsoft's idea of workstation virtualization, then they have completely
missed the mark. There are folks on the Win 7 TechNet forums expressing
the same feelings. WVPC is clearly intended to merely provide the "Virtual
XP" thing for 7. That it happens to run existing VHDs from VPC2007 is pure
luck, and is completely unsupported.

I am still holding out hope that we will see a "VPC2010" type product, that
is a separate product that installs on XP/Vista/7 and supports many guest
OSes. If that does not happen, then I will need to switch to VMWare
Workstation for my development needs.

>The more I learn about WVPC, the clearer it becomes that it is NOTYou're right, it isn't, it wasn't intended to be. It isn't even
competition for VPC2007.

It's a product to specifically address the legacy applications of
people moving to Win7, that's it.

It just so happens it can do more than that, but it's not supported
for more than that.
I hope so too. Maybe adding Hyper-V compatibility in the mix as well.

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On Wed, 13 May 2009 11:12:48 -0400, "Bob Campbell" <bob@xxxxxx>
wrote: