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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Your email address will not be published. Don’t get me wrong,it would be much simpler,and cheaper for me as a Microsoft Partner to use MS technology across the board, but until such a time as they support 64 bit guest operating systems (which is something they have been very quiet about), it’s simply not an option for me. Given all that, I recently installed VMWare 7, and I’ve been quite impressed with its capabilities and its performance. I was also hoping that using Microsoft virtualization would make it easy to move VMs between client systems and Hyper-V. I was originally a VMWare user, and I only switched to VPC after I noticed that it performed considerably better on Vista 64 bit systems. Originally Windows VPC also required hardware virtualization, which made it unusable on some of our systems, but they have recently removed that restriction. As a developer/architect I need to run these servers from my laptop, which makes it impossible to use Windows VPC. The latest waves of server releases (SharePoint, SQL Server) are 64 bit only. Microsoft actually forced the issue themselves. For a number of reason (chief among them video performance) I do not want to put Server 2008 on my laptop. I’m a big fan of Microsoft’s server virtualization (Hyper-V) but the client side is just so lacking, I’ve been forced to find another solution.

It’s April 2010, and it still doesn’t support 64 bit guest operating systems, which I believe is a pretty glaring omission. I’m pretty disappointed with Windows Virtual PC (the latest version).
