recommend me a free virtual machine program

[jak731]

im looking at for a free VM program that will allow me to install the 64bit editions of XP and vista onto it.

i tried virtual box but i cant get 64bit xp or vista to work on that as it says i have a 32bit CPU when i have a q6600

 

[Caged]

What OS do you have (to be the host)?

 

[jak731]

xpx64

 

[Stelly]

Virtual PC 2007

Stelly

 

[MikeHunt79]

Ignore

 

[Stelly]

You need to enable virtualisation on the CPU, and the in Virtual PC 2007 jsut incase you are unaware

Stelly

 

[jak731]

can you tell me how to enable virtualisation please

 

[Paul91]

Go to 'File', 'Options' and find 'Hardware Virtualization'. Once you've found it, select it so you're able to tick the box - that's all you need to do.

 

[Mattus]

Alternatively, VMWare is good. You need the Server version if you want your VM to be able to use more than one core. Otherwise Workstation is fine.

 

[Fonz-Valo]

I'm currently using Virtual PC 2007 for testing out x64 applications at work with no problems

 

[lokkers]

Go to 'File', 'Options' and find 'Hardware Virtualization'. Once you've found it, select it so you're able to tick the box - that's all you need to do.

Actually, I needed to enable Virtualisation in the BIOS on my laptop first before that option was available to me, so you may need to do that.

 

[Cob]

VMWare Server