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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.

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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...

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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

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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.

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