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I haven't been running any VM player since that wouldn't work on the Vista Home Premium some time back when first looking for something a little more then DOSBox. The Portable Virtual Box requires the program in the guide to have a shared virtual drive on the host where you upload through Live Mail storage in order to download onto the Portable VBox vhd there.
That's more or less a two step process required for seeing files transferred over from the main to PVBox 7 installation. The SUN program does offers a couple of interesting items not seen in the MS Virtual PC and XP mode alike with the option to raise the video memory up from the default 12mb to 128mb and switch between the default Realtek audio to the SB 16bit for sound.
With something to enable direct access to at leasr the optical drive older dos/95/98 compatible and other slightly newer games for 98-XP would like run with sound due to those two options! The 128mb would be a match for some requiring 128mb and the older dos Window 9x compatible games seeing the 64mb required.
The MS angle at present is geared mainly at business and commecial server application rather then the home user type desktop application at this stage while improvement will eventually be seen at their rate for home use. The 3rd party programmers might be able to take advantage of that fact to get into the home market with their offers.
I still have to try working with the regular VBox you run from the main drive. Once I am able to get into that further I can give you some ideas there.
Thanks for reply.
Please take a look here:
Vista EULA forbids virtualization
I haven't seen any info (reliable) yet about this for Windows 7 so I'm still not sure if HP version of W7 will be able to support VM in accordance with the license.
And, most consumers do not have access to read the EULA until after the shrink wrap is removed creating a nearly unreturnable item.