Hardware virtualization no longer required by Windows Virtual PC!

[hdood]

having physical access to the machine can do that too.

I really am not sure what point you are trying to make. Running software (or having your software run) does not even imply physical access. Vulnerabilities can also be combined, meaning a harmless bug in Firefox now turns into a major vulnerability that lets you take over the whole system.

Not just that, but having physical access to the machine does not necessarily mean you have full access to it. This is an incorrect overgeneralization.

By your logic they should just remove access control from Windows altogether.

[Argi]

I really am not sure what point you are trying to make. Running software (or having your software run) does not even imply physical access. Vulnerabilities can also be combined, meaning a harmless bug in Firefox now turns into a major vulnerability that lets you take over the whole system.

Not just that, but having physical access to the machine does not necessarily mean you have full access to it. This is an incorrect overgeneralization.

By your logic they should just remove access control from Windows altogether.

If you have physical access to a machine it doesn't matter how much security an OS has because you can just pull the HDD out and read off it.

[hdood]

If you have physical access to a machine it doesn't matter how much security an OS has because you can just pull the HDD out and read off it.

Incorrect. There is no guarantee that you can read the data on the drive.

[Argi]

Incorrect. There is no guarantee that you can read the data on the drive.

I'll sure it'll be fixed eventually but until then I don't expect people to be breaking into my house trying to hack into my PC.

[ThePitt]

makes me wonder if was really necesary from the beginning. Either, they try to force to the ppl to upgrade their hardware or after seen the growing of the use of VirtualBox and VMWare they decide to step back. Smart move?. Of course not!. Too late :D

[martyras]

Update for Windows Virtual PC (no hardware-assisted virtualization requirement) for those having Win7 Home and not using WinXP Mode (just Windows VPC with their own created Vmachines).

KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977206

x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=837f12aa-1d37-464e-ae59-20c9ecbebaf6

x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e70dd043-e262-43c0-a002-446567f1e2b4

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I have Windows 7 Pro, and just installed Windows XP Mode.

It's brilliant. It's slow, but it's very cool. I like how it installs applications through Windows 7.

[martyras]

Now that you mention it, there are two tips to go around laptop's power management which gives slow performance issues in Windows VPC.

1) Select "Best Performance" as your current host and guest power plan.

2) Add the following parameter to Windows VPC config xml: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2007/03/27/last-resort-for-performance-issues-with-virtual-pc-on-laptops.aspx