Virtual Thinkpad

I've been looking into running some Virtual PC software on my T61. However, I've read that Virtual PC won't work on Vista Premium. Does that mean all Virtual PC software won't work?

I've been looking into using VMWare or Virtual Box to run Linux. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks!

 

Download a trial version of VMWare Workstation 6, make your image, then dump Workstation. Install VMWare Player (free), and use your newly created VM-image.

Works like a charm.

 

I've used VMware Workstation 6, VMware Server 1.0.X, VirtualBox and Virtual PC 2004 and 2007. In my opinion stay away from Virtual PC. VMware Player 2 works very well. It all depends how many vm you are planning on running. Workstation is worth the money in my opinion.
Scott

 

I'm running Microsoft's Virtual PC on this machine (a cheap and very uncheerful thing from Elite of China) that has Vista Home Premium. Apart from the message that says I shouldn't be doing it, I've been running XP quite happily.

What I can't figure out is how to make the Virtual PC's virtual networking work through the machine's wireless adapter. I've been told I need to bridge the two, but where or how is defeating me.

Any pointers to what buttons I need to press or where I can read chapter and verse about how to make this happen?

 

Thanks for the info guys. I'll give it a go.

 

I've been using VMWare's Workstation and Server products for some time until I recently tried VirtualBox. I can say that VirtualBox is amazing for what it is. It's much quicker than VMWare's Workstation imo with less jerky X windows environment. It's free too, but lacks some of the more advanced networking features of Workstation (which I don't use anyway).
Hence, I've switched to running Fedora 7 in VB on Windows. That's on an old and supposedly slow T7400 processor with 3GB+ of RAM on an nc8430.

 

Chrixx, have you tried to clone an existing virtual machine with virtual box? from what i could tell you can't.
scott