>I have Vista 64 bit as os on my machine , and have virtual pc 2007 64 for
>virtual app
>can I load windows 7 64 bit as a vertual machine ?
>When I try it erros adn says the vm is not 64 bit as required by the windows
>7 64 os I am trying to load.
>
>Thurlowe
>

> I have Vista 64 bit as os on my machine , and have virtual pc 2007 64 for
> virtual app
> can I load windows 7 64 bit as a vertual machine ?
> When I try it erros adn says the vm is not 64 bit as required by the windows
> 7 64 os I am trying to load.

>> It somehow seems wrong to me that Windows 7 runs better on VMWare than on
>> Microsoft's own virtualization technology. In fact it seems to me that
>> Microsoft should be offering pre-release versions of Windows 7 as a
>> virtual machine image that they had made sure worked reliably in Virtual
>> PC.
>
> Virtual PC guests only run on one CPU core.

>performance under VPC, so Windows 7 should also.
>jorgensen wrote:
>>> It somehow seems wrong to me that Windows 7 runs better on VMWare than on
>>> Microsoft's own virtualization technology. In fact it seems to me that
>>> Microsoft should be offering pre-release versions of Windows 7 as a
>>> virtual machine image that they had made sure worked reliably in Virtual
>>> PC.
>>
>> Virtual PC guests only run on one CPU core.
>
>So?
>
>I have not done it personally, but I understand that Vista 32-bit has acceptable
>performance under VPC, so Windows 7 should also.
>
>Also, I do not believe that VMWare Workstation gives dual core functionality to
>the guest. Certainly, my VMWare installation of Windows 7 is not using dual
>cores (according to its Task Manager), even though the host is Athlon64 X2 (dual
>core).

> I haven't noticed the slowness of Win7 in a VM, but I haven't run it
> all that much in a VM. (I run it on real hardware)
>
> I expect by RTM there will be, at the very least, new additions.
>
> A VMWare Workstation VM can indeed be assigned 2 cores, and it does
> help the performance -- it's not quite a smooth as on real hardware,
> but it's there. The default is one core.

>hardware virtualization? My Athlon64 X2 4200+ does not allow hardware
>virtualization on my motherboard (Asus A8N-E, Socket 939).
>Even with single core, Windows 7 works quite well in Workstation, though there
>are some graphical effects that do not seem to work the way I see them
>described. If I have time I will dual boot to Windows 7 x64 on my real hardware.
>I have BootIt NG all set up to do it; in fact I have Vista x64 installed as a
>multi-boot alternative, but I almost never use it).
>Robert Comer wrote:
>> I haven't noticed the slowness of Win7 in a VM, but I haven't run it
>> all that much in a VM. (I run it on real hardware)
>>
>> I expect by RTM there will be, at the very least, new additions.
>>
>> A VMWare Workstation VM can indeed be assigned 2 cores, and it does
>> help the performance -- it's not quite a smooth as on real hardware,
>> but it's there. The default is one core.
>
>Robert:
>
>When we discussed this before, some folks said Windows 7 worked OK in VPC, and
>others not. For me, it was totally unusable. The Vista Additions worked, but did
>not give the dramatic increase in performance that one often sees.
>
>How does one get dual core operation in VMWare Workstation guest? Do you need
>hardware virtualization? My Athlon64 X2 4200+ does not allow hardware
>virtualization on my motherboard (Asus A8N-E, Socket 939).
>
>Even with single core, Windows 7 works quite well in Workstation, though there
>are some graphical effects that do not seem to work the way I see them
>described. If I have time I will dual boot to Windows 7 x64 on my real hardware.
>I have BootIt NG all set up to do it; in fact I have Vista x64 installed as a
>multi-boot alternative, but I almost never use it).

> Microsoft's own virtualization technology. In fact it seems to me that
> Microsoft should be offering pre-release versions of Windows 7 as a
> virtual machine image that they had made sure worked reliably in Virtual
> PC.

> jorgensen wrote:
> >> It somehow seems wrong to me that Windows 7 runs better on VMWare than=
> >> Microsoft's own virtualization technology. In fact it seems to me that
> >> Microsoft should be offering pre-release versions of Windows 7 as a
> >> virtual machine image that they had made sure worked reliably in Virtu=
> >> PC.
>
> > Virtual PC guests only run on one CPU core.
>
> So?
>
> I have not done it personally, but I understand that Vista 32-bit has acc=
> performance under VPC, so Windows 7 should also.
>
> Also, I do not believe that VMWare Workstation gives dual core functional=
> the guest. Certainly, my VMWare installation of Windows 7 is not using du=
> cores (according to its Task Manager), even though the host is Athlon64 X=
> core).
>
> --
> David Wilkinson
> Visual C++ MVP

> Windows 7 is not Windows Vista.....obviously. They are different
> operating systems running under a VM environment. It's also possible
> that the VPC additions are not optimized for Windows 7.