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We have Live Mesh which does this already for the home, and you can use Terminal Services with the gateway to get to your work desktop machines from a PC or network over any suitable data connection including 3G. Windows Mobile (Touch Screen Devices) includes a Remote Desktop Client but this does not support the terminal services gateway so requires use of a VPN to connect to machines which are not internet facing.
Windows Virtual PC is available for free download and supports Windows 7 as the host and Windows XP, Vista or 7 as the guest.
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VHD files themselves have a much bigger size limit
The emulated IDE controller has a maxiumum drive size of 127GB : in virtual *server* you can use a SCSI controller to get round this limit (and you don't have to install VS on a server OS). Hyperv in server 2008 / 2008R2 has removed this limit from the IDE controller.
I'm not sure if you've mentioned it yet, but Hyper V does support 64 bit OS guest support.
Question: Windows 7 chose to restart my computer last night after an update (I know there is a registry setting to disable this). I had 2 virtual pc's running. They were both forced to shutdown, it seems to me that when they are sent a kill sequence (pc shutting down) they should go into hibernate instead of shutting down. There were a slew of things I had in development that was a little bit of an annoyance to have to 1. wait for the Virtual PC to fully start up, and 2. restart all of the applications inside of the Virtual PC and hope they were saved. Any future implementation to make this a little more user friendly?
Second Virtual PC problem, when I right click on a large set of data off of a network location and hit copy in the host machine and if I right click later in the guest machine it automatically starts to copy that data into a temp folder somewhere as if I want to copy the data into the virtual machine. This can be super annoying since I'm often moving files or sets of files between 400 Mb and 12 Gb. Especially annoying since if you hit cancel it just restarts copying the files to the temp location...
Last edited by fakeasdf; 28 Jan 2010 at 12:25. Reason: I semi lied. It must be from a network location.