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Are there any issues involved in moving our virtual machines to another windows 7 machine?

I came to see the responses to Hyper V and XP Mode specifically, but since I'm already here:

pacinitaly said:

would this rig be hyper V ?

Gateway - Laptop with Intel® Core™ i3 Processor - NightSky Black - NV7915u

The hardware supports it (Intel Core i3-330M Processor specs), but you might need to upgrade the OS to at least Professional before XP Mode specifically will work. According to Wikipedia, only Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise will allow XP Mode to be installed.

ZaLiTH said:

According to Wikipedia, only Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise will allow XP Mode to be installed.

Also to Microsoft's own "Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 brochure" which can be downloaded here... Windows Virtual PC: Documentation and Videos

Windows XP Mode with Windows Virtual PC Requires:

• Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Enterprise
• Additional 1GB of RAM
• Additional 15GB of available disk space

• Processor capable of hardware virtualization with AMD-V™ or Intel® VT turned on

you all are AWESOME

Win7User512 said:

What are the best resources for learning how to use the technologies in a professional/business environment.

I would start with Hyper-V, Virtualization | Server and Application Resources on TechNet

polycue said:

Are there any issues involved in moving our virtual machines to another windows 7 machine?

Do you mean using XP Mode?

polycue said:

Are there any issues involved in moving our virtual machines to another windows 7 machine?

You should be able to copy the VHD file from one machine to another.
Be aware that Windows XP mode uses differencing disks and you will run into difficulties if the location of the parent VHD - or the VHD itself - arent the same between VMs.

I Usually re-create the VM but you can copy the VMCX file - if you open this in a notepad you'll see it also points to a VMC file and the VHD using paths which are user specific, so this can be a bit of hack.

Windows Virtual PC : Various File Types for Virtual Machine Backup in Windows Virtual PC has more information.

pebbly said:

i have one, not very good but what is the theoretical maximum of virtual cpu's you can have on one pc

512 virtual cpus on Hyper-V, 4 on Virtual PC