My PC does not have Hardware virtualisation

[marshmule]

My Laptop does not have hw virtualisation, whats an alternative to Virtual PC? I am running windows 7. When I had vista I had virtual PC's running on this machine.

Thanks.

 

[DMS]

VMWare Workstation IMO.

 

[PinkoCommie]

You can use any other virtualisation software, you just can't use the MS one built into Win7

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
or
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

Depending on what you actually need. Both free.

 

[marshmule]

Well so far no good! I have downloaded VMWare player trial which is OK. However I wanted to build a 2008 test server with the 180 days trial and didnt know 32 bit support has been removed my laptop has a 32 bit cpu!

 

[sn00p]

Well so far no good! I have downloaded VMWare player trial which is OK. However I wanted to build a 2008 test server with the 180 days trial and didnt know 32 bit support has been removed my laptop has a 32 bit cpu!

You'll be needing emulation not virtualisation then. I use qemu under linux to do this, not sure about gui's as I just use it direct from the terminal.

 

[marshmule]

You'll be needing emulation not virtualisation then. I use qemu under linux to do this, not sure about gui's as I just use it direct from the terminal.

So using emulation I trick the OS into thinking I have a 64bit cpu? I have no experience with linux so I dont know how far ill get.

Thanks

 

[sn00p]

So using emulation I trick the OS into thinking I have a 64bit cpu? I have no experience with linux so I dont know how far ill get.

Thanks

Essentially, yes.

There are qemu ports for windows so you may be able to find an up to date one somewhere.

qemu will also quite happily run inside a virtual machine, so you can install ubuntu in vmware player (generate a virtual machine online) and then run qemu in that, windows in linux in windows.

 

[PinkoCommie]

Well so far no good! I have downloaded VMWare player trial which is OK. However I wanted to build a 2008 test server with the 180 days trial and didnt know 32 bit support has been removed my laptop has a 32 bit cpu!

Does it need to be 2008 R2?

Initial release 2008 can run on 32bit, only 2008 R2 is 64bit only.

 

[marshmule]

Does it need to be 2008 R2?

Initial release 2008 can run on 32bit, only 2008 R2 is 64bit only.

I discovered this late last night. Thanks for all your help guys!