Vista - Questions about Windows 7 virtual stuff

Greetings

1. I see the new Virtual PC is being touted as for Windows 7 Professional,
Ultimate and Enterprise versions. Does anyone know if it will actually work
in the Home version (in the same way that VPC 2007 isn't supported in some
versions of Vista, but actually works fine in practice)?

2. If it won't work in the Home version, will VPC 2007 work in Windows 7?

3. In any event, will the new VPC allow creation of virtual machines other
than XP (I'm only seeing it refer to XP)

4. This is probably the stupid question - but! - on my Vista Home host, I
have set up a Windows 7 RC guest. Can I install VPC2007 into that guest and
create a host within the host?? I can see that this depends firstly on
question 2 above, but I don't understand the concepts well enough to know if
you can have a host within a host.

Thanks


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>1. I see the new Virtual PC is being touted as for Windows 7 Professional,I don't know on that one.
VPC2007 will work, though you may need a driver update. It wont
install if you have the new VPC7 installed though...
Yes, you can still create VM's and run other OS's.
No, you can't do that, no VM with a VM allowed with VPC.

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On Thu, 7 May 2009 16:51:53 +0100, "Wasted" <johnprice108@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Wasted wrote:Because the Win7VPC is part of Win7 itself this probably means that it
is not included in the cheaper Win7 license options. Also you should
look closely the EULA terms, for example the Vista Home EULA explicitly
banned running it inside any kind of Virtual PC.
To run a VPC inside a VPC, the outer VPC needs to also emulate those
aspects of a PC (such as Hyper-V CPU instructions) that are needed to
run the inner VPC. Historically, most VPC products have not done that.


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