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| Microsoft Virtual PC 2004: My two cents |
| 05.12.04 (6:37 am) [edit] |
Having used VM software in the past and found it to be a very useful tool for testing operating systems and software without having to purchase new hardware, I was quite pleased when February's MSDN shipment of CD's included Microsoft's new virtual machine product.
I have to say that so far, Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 has been a real disappointment, due to one critical flaw. When the window that the VM runs in loses focus — that is, when it's not the window on top because you are using other programs at the same time — its thread utilization slows to a crawl.
Installation of Windows 2003 Server, which was estimated to take 37 minutes, instead took 3 hours. I was only able to complete the installation by stopping all other work and clicking to bring the VM window to the front every time the screen saver started and it lost focus.
While this product is still of some use, since I don't have to erase my existing OS or swap hard drives to run my Windows 2003 test server on my existing PC, it still effectively takes my PC out of commission while the test server is in use. VMWare does not have the same problem, and for any production use, that's the product I would recommend.
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