Virtual PC 2007 too good for Home Premium? | The Coffeehouse

Rowan
Look, no errors.

Microsoft wrote:

The following versions of Windows Vista are supported: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate.

Why?

Microsoft wrote:

[Virtual PC 2004 runs on:] ...Windows XP Professional or later...

- except Vista apparently.

Is there something wrong with Home Premium?

Premium: ~~having or reflecting superior quality or value~~?

Mad

I didn't think a "premium" version would have such limitations.

PeterF
Early Adopter

I remember it had something to do with the end user aggreement that the home editions may only be run in non-virtualized environments.
Maybe a request from Steve Jobs? Tongue Out

Peter

Rowan
Look, no errors.

Well apart from the warning messages saying "this version of Windows is not supported by VPC 2007" I was able to successfully install VPC 2007 on Vista Home Premium.

Apparently VHP isn't "officially" supported by VPC 2007, but it still lets you install it anyway. I'm now happily running XP Pro under Vista without any problems.

I'd still like to hear some reasoning about this though, and will I be able to use the final release of VPC 2007 on VHP (the beta expires end of next month)?

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Rowan wrote:
...I'd still like to hear some reasoning about this though...

alwaysmc2
It's not stupid; It's advanced!

is VPC 2007 free like VPC 2004?

TimP

alwaysmc2 wrote:
is VPC 2007 free like VPC 2004?

Yep.

Does the VPC 2007 installer actually complain when you try to install it on Home/Home Premium? If so, MSI hacks can usually get around it.

PetKnep
IE7 RTM'd yay!

I'm not a EULA wizard, so I can't decipher the language any better than you. Take my post with a grain of salt. But there is a difference between "unsupported" and "disallowed".

From the snippet you posted, it sounds just unsupported. Tech support will not answer any questions on it, you will not get bug fixes for free, etc. If it works, you can to do it.

Boot camp is unsupported by Apple, all that means it you cannot ask people at the Genius bar to help you set it up and fix any problems that happen.

There's no limitation keeping you from running it, unless you refuse to run unsupported configurations. This is the case for many business environments which would not be running the home SKU anyways.

woolfgang

VPC 2007 final version is available! Can anyone confirm install VHP?

JChung2006

PetKnep wrote:
I'm not a EULA wizard, so I can't decipher the language any better than you. Take my post with a grain of salt. But there is a difference between "unsupported" and "disallowed".

From the snippet you posted, it sounds just unsupported. Tech support will not answer any questions on it, you will not get bug fixes for free, etc. If it works, you can to do it.

Boot camp is unsupported by Apple, all that means it you cannot ask people at the Genius bar to help you set it up and fix any problems that happen.

There's no limitation keeping you from running it, unless you refuse to run unsupported configurations. This is the case for many business environments which would not be running the home SKU anyways.

Actually, Virtual PC 2004 would not even install on Windows XP Home. I would be (pleasantly) surprised if you could install Virtual PC 2007 on the Home SKU's.

intelman

I wanted to install Virtual PC 2007 on my laptop so I could run XP because OSU is completely stupid and doesn't support remote printing in Vista, and I was ungratefully surprised that Vista Home Premium wasn't supported.

VPC does install on Home Premium, but keeps popping up an "your operating system is unsupported blah blah blah" messages.

bakerch

I have windows vista home premium. I was able to install virtual pc 2007 just as you were though I am not able to install windows xp in the virtual environment. The following error message is what I keep receiving:

first it loads saying:

client MAC ADDR: [numbers] GUID: [more numbers]

DHCP..-

then after a while it comes up with a boot error message:

Reboot and Select proper Boot device

or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device_

do you have any solutions?

d8niel

In reply to bakerch

#Feb 6th, 2008 @ 7:00 AM

I've got the same setup/prob as bakerch

anybody have any ideas?

thx in advance for ur help

evildictaitor
if( !succeed( try() ) ) { while(true) try(); }

In reply to d8niel

#Feb 18th @ 4:14 PM

You need to install an operating system on the guest machine. You'll need the XP disk - put it in your computer and then tell the window to use it - then restart the Virtual PC box. You'll need to go through the installation procedure, but you'll only need to do so once.

webmonkey
How am i supposed to code with theeeeeese ?

In reply to d8niel

#Feb 18th @ 4:14 PM

I was installing a win7 vm today and came across the same issue, it just wouldn't read/boot from my disc. I created an ISO from the dvd then told VPC to use that to boot/install from and it was fine then.

Pankaj Bansal

There is no problem whatsoever in installing VPC on Vista Home Premium, it works fine on Vista Home Premium.

Asif2009

In reply to Pankaj Bansal

#Feb 23rd @ 5:40 PM

Pankaj - I am having issue running vpc 2007 sp1 on windows vista home premium. any help would be appreciated.

Asif