TonyLock Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 How do I enable AERO in Virtual PC 2007? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiallG Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive...al-pc-2007.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyLock Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 That's sort of cercomventing it! It there a native way to enable it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O.G Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 No. The graphics hardware is emulated and doesn't support the pixel shading required for Aero. Even if it could be rendered using software it would run like crap and bog down both the guest and host. VMWare are supposed to be working on better graphics support though so maybe it will be possible natively at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyLock Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 The RDP hack doesn't work on the latest beta of W7. That hack was for Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda X Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 The RDP hack doesn't work on the latest beta of W7. That hack was for Vista. How's that a hack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyLock Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 Lookup the actual definition of the word "hack"! Jeeze! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda X Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Lookup the actual definition of the word "hack"! Jeeze! That's not a hack. It's a work-around. There's a difference. Learn it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyLock Posted May 17, 2009 Author Share Posted May 17, 2009 The term "Hack" is by all definitions a "work-around" unless you subscribe to the Hollywood definition of "Hack"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 I think of a hack as something that modifies a program, where a work-around does not modify anything. So i'm going with work-around on this, NOT hack. Bottom line result either way is that Aero cannot be enabled in VPC (Yet). It should be able to be used in VirtualBox IIRC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwinky Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 ow darn ... I wanted to install a W7 + office 2010 virtual box on my work pc to try and be able to fall back to old trusted vista when needed but without aero I can't stand to look at it :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdood Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 You can't use Aero in ANY virtualization program. Not Virtual PC, not VirtualBox, and not VMWare. It isn't possible, period. It isn't going to happen in the foreseeable future either, if ever. The only thing you can do is enable remote desktop connections inside the guest OS, and then connect to the guest OS's IP address/name with the remote desktop client in the host OS. You'll probably only try it once though, because it's not a very pleasant experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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