Use Virtual PC to run XP programs.
Can Windows 8 be installed under/within Win 7's Virt PC? Would like to learn more about this sometimes controversial product.
(Understand THIS forum does not support Win 8).
Thank You
Roaming
Why not try out VirtualBox?
Its fairly simple to use, and I believe it will do what you're wanting to do.
Guess I should "look" first, that said, does VirtualBox run under Win7 Virtual PC, or is this a product 'tween my desire to try Win8 in my Win7 PC?
Tks for your reply, the first rcvd since the post :-(
VMWare Player is another free product that is more than capable of emulating the OS
VirtualBox and VMware are separate VMs from Microsoft's Virtual Machine. MVM was released so that the XP OS and software could be run on a Windows 7 machine. (A lot of old software will run on Seven without it.) When the trial release of Windows 8 came out, MVM would not run it so everyone used V-Box or VMware.
I run MVM with XP and VirtualBox with an evaluation copy of Windows 8. The drawback with most virtual machine software is the lack of hardware support and drivers. When I was evaluating VM software, I found that VMware didn't support USB so I went with VirtualBox. (Don't know about the current version of VMware.) In any case, both are capable VMs as long as you don't have hardware beyond the basics.
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