andrewpayne Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Hi Guys - Having gotten bored waiting for my Microsoft VirtualPC 2007 to boot up and it's general poor performace with Virtual machines - I came across another free Virtual Machine Utility which I downloaded and tested on Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (32-bit) with Windows XP, Server 2003 and Windows Vista (32-bit) guest OS installs. Perfect for testing my Unattended Install ISO's.It is great! Much faster than MS VirtualPC - download for yourself here http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Screenshots here - http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/ScreenshotsGive it a go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phkninja Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 dont mean to burst your bubble. Information of this software was already posted on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewpayne Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 (edited) Thanks - fair point - but just in case anyone else missed it (like I did!) - I can highly recommend. XP installs over twice as quick than VirtualPC.The aforementioned Topic titled New VM - Virtualbox - can be read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=90774 Edited April 30, 2007 by andrewpayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br4tt3 Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 And for u guys that want to stick to MS Virtual PC but are annoyed over the slow performance, when performing the intial disk installation, then;1. Extract the driver files that comes within the Virtual Add-On tools2. Integrate into your unattend installation (txtsetup.sif based)3. Once in place, the slow performance issue wont be much of a problem when performing Virtual PC installations of XP/2003.Have a nice Walpurgis day.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechus Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 You guys can also try MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 - it's free http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversyst...er/default.mspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewpayne Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 You guys can also try MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 - it's freeYes it is. Have you tried it? How does the speed compare with VMWare/VirtualPC/etc on ISO images? I have used VMWare (great but installs many services which have a performance impact on the Host OS, VirtualPC 2004 and 2007 - both really slow (even with the Add-On drivers) and now VirtualBox - which I am liking more and more as I use it. OK it crashes out occasionally (mainly when rebooting after the Guest OS has installed a few Windows Updates via Microsoft Update - XP and Server 2003) - but my Host PC remains completely unaffected when it's not running as there are no services running in the background which is my largest gripe with VMWare Workstation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1to1 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Hi Guys - Having gotten bored waiting for my Microsoft VirtualPC 2007 to boot up and it's general poor performace with Virtual machines - I came across another free Virtual Machine Utility which I downloaded and tested on Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (32-bit) with Windows XP, Server 2003 and Windows Vista (32-bit) guest OS installs. Perfect for testing my Unattended Install ISO's.It is great! Much faster than MS VirtualPC - download for yourself here http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Screenshots here - http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/ScreenshotsGive it a go! It's An excellent virual machine I have tried it I think it's better then all other virual machines, quicker, smaller, free and it has fully unattended setup. thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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