I just saw on Bink that Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available for download on Connect. Some new features have been added to VPC 2007:
- Support for Intel and AMD hardware assisted virtualisation. You will need a hotfix that is on the beta site if running AMD hardware assistance and a 64 bit host OS.
- PXE support is added for network installs, e.g. SMS OS deployment pack, CM 2007, RIS or WDS.
- Support for Vista as (1) a host and (2) a guest operating system.
- Support for 64 bit host operating systems.
- There is allegedly a 64 bit and a 32bit version. That was the claim on the site with the last beta release but when I installed it on Vista x64 it installed as a 32 bit version and support claimed there only was a 32 bit version of VPC.
It’s disappointing not to see 64 bit support for guests. VMware keeps its advantage here.