Virtual PC started off originally as an x86 emulator for PowerPC Macintosh to run MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Connectix, the company that made it, was purchased by Microsoft. Virtual PC was then retooled into a virtualization tool for x86 systems. Microsoft discontinued Virtual PC in favor of a server-oriented virtualization product called Hyper-V.
On the desktop, Virtual PC competed with VMWare and featured better compatibility with a wider array of guest operating system.
Virtual PC 2004 (version 5.3) was the first Windows release from Microsoft.
Requires Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, or Windows Server 2003 32-bit as host.
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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Virtual PC 2004 (PC) | 2004 | English | 15.12MB | 3 |