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Microsoft Virtual PC is Microsoft's release of a product line they acquired from Connectix in February 2003. It natively provides support for Windows operating systems, but, using the 'Other' option, it is possible to install and run pretty much any Operating System. (Tested with Linux and several hobbyist OSes.)
It feels very similar to the [[VMWare]] PC Emulator, and provides most of the same functions, and is free. A free downloadable version is available from Microsoft's website.
Review: It is okay, but doesn't have an integrated debugger. Pretty fast though :)
More review:
* It provides PCI configuration method 1 support and
* Fixed size disk images are very easy to work with and can be shared by Virtual PC and Bochs :)
* It only supports a minimal set of hardware - just enough for decent use. It doesn't support VBE 3.0 (the one with protected-mode access), BIOS32 for PCI (although that is easily implemented without the BIOS), or loopback mode for the serial UARTs.
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