There is a wide range of products in the market for implementing virtualization .The contribution of Microsoft to the world of Virtualization is VirtualPC.It shows a high-end competition with VMWARE. Using virtualization to run multiple operating systems on a single physical computer was once mainly the domain of ubergeeks and IT administrators, but these days there’s much more widespread interest in the technology, whether as a means to test a planned software deployment, kick the tires on a new OS, or just to continue using an application designed for a now obsolete operating system.
Virtualization’s increase in popularity is in part due to Microsoft’s decision several years ago to offer its Virtual PC 2004 software for free. Some users soon found that there was a catch, however, because VPC 2004 didn’t work particularly well with Windows Vista, whether as the guest (virtualized) operating system or as the host OS running natively on the system.
With the new Virtual PC 2007, Vista-related issues are no more (at least technical ones - more on that in a moment). While VPC 2007 doesn’t address all of VPC 2004’s limitations - nor for that matter does it offer the same level of features as virtualization products like Parallels Workstation or VMware Workstation - it does handle the basics well. And like its predecessor, VPC 2007 is available free of charge, which for many will be reason enough to try it.
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