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Wikipedia-Article "Microsoft Virtual PC"

Microsoft Virtual PC 
Screenshot of Virtual PC 6.1 for Mac OS X with virtualized Windows 95 and Windows XP. Safari runs here natively.
Virtual PC 6.1 for Mac OS X with emulated Windows 95 and Windows XP. Safari runs here natively.
Maintainer: Microsoft Corporation
Latest release: 2004 SP 1(Windows), 7.0.2 (Mac) /
December 2, 2003 (Windows), June 28, 2005 (Mac)
OS: Mac OS (deprecated), Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Genre: Emulator, Virtual machine
License: Proprietary
Website: for Mac (version 7)
for Windows (version 2004)

Virtual PC is an emulation suite for Apple Mac OS X, and a virtualization suite for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The software was originally written by Connectix, and was subsequently acquired by Microsoft.

Virtual PC emulates a standard PC and its associated hardware. Thus, it can be used to run nearly all operating systems available for the PC. However, issues can arise when trying to install uncommon operating systems that have not been specifically targeted in the development of Virtual PC. Virtual PC emulates a Pentium II with MMX processor (virtualizes the host processor on Windows versions) with an Intel 440BX chipset, a standard SVGA Vesa graphics card (S3 Trio 64 PCI with 4 MByte Video RAM, adjustable in later versions), a system BIOS from American Megatrends (AMI), a Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 PnP and a DEC 21041 (DEC 21140 in newer versions) Ethernet network card. Not all programs are guaranteed to work because they can use undocumented features of hardware, exotic timings, or unsupported opcodes, although overall compatibility is considered excellent. The Macintosh version of Virtual PC uses dynamic recompilation to translate the x86 code used by a standard PC into equivalent PowerPC code used by a Mac. The Windows version of Virtual PC also uses dynamic recompilation, but only to translate kernel mode and real mode x86 code into x86 user mode code, while original user mode and virtual 8086 mode code run natively.

It also uses some guest calls traps (especially when using the guest extensions) to accelerate emulation.

The first version of Virtual PC was developed for the Macintosh and was released in June 1997. Four years later in June 2001, the first version of Virtual PC for Windows, version 4.0, was released. Connectix sold versions of Virtual PC bundled with a variety of operating systems, including many versions of Windows, OS/2, and Red Hat Linux. As it became clear that virtualization was important to the enterprise, Microsoft became interested in the sector and chose to acquire Virtual PC and an (at the time) unreleased product called "Virtual Server" from Connectix in February 2003.

Version 5.0 was ported by a third party for running with OS/2 as host. This version also included guest extensions for OS/2 guest, that can be used with Windows, OS/2 or Mac OS X hosts using Virtual PC versions 5, 6 or 7. Both were discontinued when Microsoft bought Virtual PC.

Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 is the current version for the Windows operating system. Its equivalent on the Macintosh platform is Virtual PC for Mac version 7.

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