>>>>Bear in mind that whilst Virtual PC is free the operating systems you run under are not !
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Viv
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>>>There are other Operating Systems besides Microsoft´s that are free, and can be hosted in VirtualPC
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>>I know (I've got a couple of versions of Linux running on it). But I thought Dimitry was interested in hosting XP.
>>IAC you need a MS OS to host VPC in the first place :-{
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>This is interesting. Does it matter what MS OS you have hosting VPC? For example, if I want to have XP and Win 2003 and Linux on my VPC, can I use XP as the initial OS?

My copy of VPC is running on a W2003 server but I'm pretty sure that it can be installed on an XP system. And assuming it does run then, AFAIK, it will host any operating systems that would normally run on the underlying hardware.

Regards,
Viv