Free Virtual PC from Microsoft — ArsTechnica

by Brad Grier on July 13, 2006

in How to,Lifestyle Technology,On the web

Inter­est­ing read. Ars­Tech­nica has an article/review about Microsoft’s Vir­tual PC, now avail­able free. Why would you want to set up another PC on your exist­ing PC? Check out new oper­at­ing sys­tems, exper­i­ment, play…who knows.

I run a Ubuntu server for the home, on a stand-alone box. The art­icle talks about installing Ubuntu desktop on a PC…takes about 3 hours, but at the end of the day, you’ve got a com­puter that will run another OS within the win­dows environment.

Is it bet­ter than cre­at­ing a dual-boot PC? Likely. This way, you don’t really have to work at the hard­ware layer — format­ting and par­ti­tion­ing your HD to sup­port mul­tiple OS. I’m temp­ted to try it out.

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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Marc July 13, 2006 at 1:14 pm

You could also try VMware player, which is free.

I actually do the reverse. I run an Ubuntu Linux box and then I run Windows on it inside a QEMU virtual machine.

2 Brad Grier July 13, 2006 at 3:24 pm

You know, I’ve got a spare laptop (heh) that I may just try that on. Time permitting, may play with them both. Thanks for the heads up!

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