So I have read / heard that Windows 7 has an XP emulator. Tonight I installed it. I had to enable a feature of my CPU in the BIOS to make it work. I have it installed and working. My favorite feature is the fact that I can map USB devices to it. I have a Fujistu Scanner that I could not get working for the life of me in Windows 7. In XP it installs so easily, and it did the same thing in this virtual XP.
One problem I have found so far is that I can not join it to my domain. I think they are blocking me from doing this, but if that was the case, why did they give me XP Professional rather than home? Maybe I need to dedicate a NIC to the VM. I need to play with it more, but these are my first thoughts.
Here is the link I used: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
Here are my defining specs:
Core i7, eVGA Motherboard x58, 6 GB Ram, 600 GB HDD Space
Edit: I have now joined my XP virtual PC to my domain. I needed to bridge it on the same network. Before it was using NAT and did not have the capability to communicate with my domain controller.
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