Virtual PC 2007 Beta released
Virtual PC 2007 Beta is out and can be download at http://connect.microsoft.com. I just installed it and it was complaining about Virtual Server running, after I shut that down it installed. I was curious whether it would replace VPC 2004 as it would be nice to have these side-by-side in case VPC 2007 is not as stable as you need it be. Apparently it cannot run side-by-side as it replaced VPC 2004 without telling. It seems it is coming with new versions of the VM Additions (13.724) that is supposed to support the latest RC2 version of Vista. Installing it through the menu option "Install Virtual Machine Additons" gives you this Windows Installer screen:
Simple running the <virtual_cd_drive>:\windows\VirtualMachineAdditions.msi manually fixes this.
I have a Dell D810 that VPC has some issues with, like repeating keys etc. I fixed this via this support article, but I always ended up with VPC using 100% CPU. Therefor I had set VPC to run under low priority to make sure my desktop is sort of responsive. I also used tools like SpeedswitchXP to make sure the CPU wasn't switching speed. So I was curious whether this was fixed and disabled the idle thread again, but unfortunately I quickly ended up with repeating keys again. DAMN!
So I will probably end up enabling the idle thread again.
