Virtual PC will work on chips that don’t have those hooks, but not well. Microsoft provides a free utility to check your processor. Intel and AMD have their own utilities as well, if you want to ...

It's easy to set up a virtual machine on your PC, creating a machine within a machine, using free desktop virtualization software from VMware. Here's a look at the advantages, plus instructions.

IT professionals have used virtual hard drives for years in servers and virtual machines, ... If you plan on using Virtual PC 2007, remember that Virtual PC can only use VHD files up to 127GB.

Connectix's Virtual PC allows a Macintosh to run nearly a dozen different operating systems, including all the flavors of Windows. It even does things that Windows can't do -- like restoring ...

How to Network With a Virtual PC. Many businesses have moved to the Windows 7 operating system, but some older business applications still require Windows XP to run.

What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and security we now lack – while providing the consistency IT has always wished for.

Some virtual PC software — including VMWare’s — let you save multiple versions on your machine; each can gobble gigabytes, however. Keep an eye on available disk space, especially on a notebook.