There is an XP mode in Windows 7, and this XP mode is a virtual machine that runs on Windows 7. What is the performance? First, let's look at the Windows Virtual PC to run
What requirements are required.
Hardware virtualization Support
Intel-vt
Amd-v
1 GHz 32-bit/64-bit CPU
Memory
Min 1.25G, recommended 2G
Recommend each virtual machine 15GB disk
Supported host operating systems
Windows 7 Home Basic
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 Enterprise
Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Ultimate
Note: Windows XP mode only supports Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Professional, and Windows 7 Ultimate.
Supported Virtual machine operating systems
Windows XP SP3
Windows vists SP1
Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows 7
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Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/to download patches and VHD files first.
After the installation is complete, you will see the Windows Virtual PC menu bar in the Start menu.
There are three submenus in it. The first is the console of the Windows Virtual PC. The second is the pre-boot configuration environment for virtual Windows XP. In plain words, we use the VHD just below.
We first look at the control Panel, after you install the downloaded VHD, automatically in the Control panel will be one more, the so-called XP mode virtual machine.
Select creat virtual machine to create a new VM.
The following operation is very simple, with vpc nothing too big but don't.
Look at the picture.
The following figure, about the networking option, if you select this here. The virtual machine you created, by default, is the way of Nat.