Windows 7 XP Mode: Flippin brill!!!

Hypervisors are moving in the direction that soon they will be built into the maintstream Mobo, in fact Dell and HP, and I think IBM, have XenServer built into the BIOS already. This means that in addition to the usual boot commands: C:>CDROM>USB>PXE, you now have an option to boot directly into Xen. A security concern could be that the virus somehow brings up a malicious VM; but the chances are really small....

So, not sure what the security issues you talking of: another industry concern is that the Hypervisor could be compromised by a virus and thus impact all the VMs. Of course the Hypervisor is Linux :)

As to the rewriting of the kernel, it is not necessary to make any modifications to the OS (one of the huge benefits of virtualisation). The Hypervisor is used to paravirtualise the underlying hardware, so the OS should not know the difference. In fact, as mentioned above, the Hypervisor is quickly becoming a hardware component; as apposed to software component....
 
Conradl said:
Hypervisors are moving in the direction that soon they will be built into the maintstream Mobo, in fact Dell and HP, and I think IBM, have XenServer built into the BIOS already. This means that in addition to the usual boot commands: C:>CDROM>USB>PXE, you now have an option to boot directly into Xen. A security concern could be that the virus somehow brings up a malicious VM; but the chances are really small....

So, not sure what the security issues you talking of: another industry concern is that the Hypervisor could be compromised by a virus and thus impact all the VMs. Of course the Hypervisor is Linux :)

As to the rewriting of the kernel, it is not necessary to make any modifications to the OS (one of the huge benefits of virtualisation). The Hypervisor is used to paravirtualise the underlying hardware, so the OS should not know the difference. In fact, as mentioned above, the Hypervisor is quickly becoming a hardware component; as apposed to software component....
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So it could eventually become something like the ASUS-linux-boot thing?

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iDenTiTy said:
Then there should be no reason for businesses NOT to switch over to Win 7 then..

:D
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Thought businesses didn't want to upgrade because the phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes in play and probably they still have the nightmare of when Vista was a new born.
 
Windows 7 XP mode hits final beta

Windows 7 XP mode hits final beta

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The software also requires an additional 1GB of RAM, 15GB of available disk space, and a processor capable of hardware virtualization with AMD-V or Intel VT
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Woodgate also said partners HP and Lenovo are promising they will ship XP Mode pre-installed on PCs loaded with Windows 7. AMD has agreed to enable hardware virtualization on all its CPUs by the launch of Windows 7 excluding the Sempron processor.

Want to compare network applications products? Visit the IT Product Guides now.Microsoft is also working with antivirus vendors on licensing terms that would allow for single instance installations for both Windows 7 and Windows XP Mode.
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xpm is quite useful, been using it to do some legacy work in xp with visual studio 2003/sql2000/office2003 on top of win7. besides this helps with different testing boxes too over having real life ones on your desk.

just remember to collect the base files and base vhd before going from win7 rc to win7 final other wise the vhd's won't attach without them; got this surprise today :D

apart from the xpm files you also be needing the vpc update (32x or 64x) for win7.

side note; m/b and cpu must be able to do virtual.
 
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Synaesthesia said:
It's completely integrated into the OS, unlike Sun's virtualbox.
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Um....since when is anything Microsoft NOT ''integrated'' into the OS....I'm thinking Internet Explorer here. :)

Sun's Virtualbox is much better software, cos it runs on all platforms. In the process of getting it to work on OS2.
 
Windows 7 XP mode is awesome, just for running those XP apps. Virtualbox is more versatile and powerful, like you say, but it's not as simple and seamless. Not nearly. Although it does kinda suck that you have to have a VT processor.
 
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kingrob said:
Yes, Sun's Virtualbox runs MacOS and Linux as well. :)
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sO yEAH, My ONLY INTEREST IS LINUX. But for that I can use VM or Sun's box to be able to run Linux in a Wondoze Virtual box not?
 
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