Microsoft Virtual PC

So It tried VMWare and the web browser GUI thing wouldn't load right...I hacked around an got the Web play something or other to load but when I tried to log in I got another error...something about ports this time or Tomcat not working right..I said "Tomcat? Come on!".....so I uninstalled it and tried Microsoft Virtual PC...installed without a hitch and ran perfectly..I got Windows 2003 Server and the new Windows 7 beta running in no time.

I couple of learning points that I needed to Google around for: ~Install Virtual Machine Additions on your VM instance to get file drag/drop and copy/paste from the parent OS working (very nice to have)...I'll let you Google how to do that. ~If sound doesn't transfer out to your host OS's speakers, following this post's advice to "update the audio driver with the "C:\Program Files\Virtual Machine Additions" folder.

Ah, playing with a fresh OS is a geek's dream!!!!