Virtual machine

banderas1978

I heard that Virtual machine only works on vista bussines,enterprise or ultimate but not on home version. Can you confirm or deny it, please?

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undomiel

Are you talking about Virtual PC specifically or just virtualization in general? As long as your pc is powerful enough then you can run whatever virtualization you prefer such as virtualbox or vmware.

astorrs

Vista Business, Ultimate, Enterprise were the only versions allowed to run within a virtual machine according to the EULA - I believe they have "corrected" that (there was a lot of backlash) and now all versions are okay.

Nonetheless it has no effect on your ability to run Windows XP or 2003 in a VM which is what you're looking at doing anyway.

Slowhand

I think you put this one in the wrong forums. You probably wanted either the Vista or virtualization sections.

According to Microsoft, Virtual PC is not supported on home editions of Windows XP or Vista:

Microsoft wrote:

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

If you were talking about Virtual Server, it doesn't look like the home editions are supported there either:

Microsoft wrote:

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition ; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows Small Business Server 2003 ; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows XP Service Pack 2

If you meant for VMware, those system requirements are available on the VMware website, sorted by product. As for Hyper-V, that is only available on Windows Server 2008. Figured I'd add those in there, but I'm pretty sure you were talking about Virtual PC or Virtual Server.

banderas1978

Thanks for your help!