Windows 7 Virtual PC

I decided, although I know you can partition say XP or Vista, to try Windows 7 the safe way.. using the FREE Microsoft Virtual PC.  I downloaded Windows 7 from MSDN, and configured a 25gb Virtual Machine with (currently) 512mb RAM.

It has installed successfully – a little slow of course with 512mb RAM, although that is because the machine I was testing it on has only 1gb.. I will be running this from my Laptop which has more memory (in an ‘off’ state, you can of course change the amount of memory).

Anyway, I will test a bit more, but again it seems to be working fine… If anyone wants the Virtual PC Image, then please leave a comment and I will maybe organise an upload.. not sure of the legal state there – however it does seem that Win 7 beta is free to download for anyone at this stage.. all I have done is save installing on a physical machine…

More to come soon!