Virtual PC is a discontinued x86 emulator software for Microsoft Windows hosts and PowerPC-based Mac hosts. It was created by Connectix in 1997 and acquired...
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VHD (file format) (redirect from Virtual Hard Disk)
Hyper-V. The format was created by Connectix for their Virtual PC product, known as Microsoft Virtual PC since Microsoft acquired Connectix in 2003. VHDX was...
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is directly executed by a CPU. Some other products such as VMware and Virtual PC use similar approaches to Bochs and QEMU, however they use a number of...
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In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and...
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Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and InnoTek VirtualBox) is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle...
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Unusually for a PC of the period the O/S was stored in ROM, which enabled a relatively fast boot time. In addition Acorn sold a Virtual PC package that permitted...
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Hyper-V (redirect from Windows Server Virtualization)
virtualization component for personal computers, superseding Windows Virtual PC. Microsoft provides Hyper-V through two channels: Part of Windows: Hyper-V...
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acquired by Microsoft prior to release. Virtual PC is Microsoft's related desktop virtualization software package. Virtual machines are created and managed through...
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Storage or a single-file virtual file system in an emulator like PCTask or so-called WinUAE, Oracle's VirtualBox, Microsoft's Virtual PC, VMware. The primary...
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Windows Gadget Platform. A new version of Microsoft Virtual PC, newly renamed as Windows Virtual PC was made available for Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise...
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operating systems. Windows 365 Remote Desktop Services Windows Virtual PC "Azure Virtual Desktop (HostApp)". Microsoft Apps. Retrieved 2024-11-12. Foley...
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List of file formats (redirect from List of virtual machine file formats)
for Legacy PC, or restoring a system image made from Backup and Restore (Windows Vista/7) Msi – Windows installation file Vdhx – Virtual disk created...
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lawsuit to stop it failed, and then dropped the product immediately. Virtual PC and Virtual server: Emulation software of x86-based personal computers for the...
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Connectix launches its first version of Virtual PC for Windows.[6] July, VMware creates the first x86 server virtualization product.[7] Egenera, Inc. launches...
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A virtual console (VC) – also known as a virtual terminal (VT) – is a conceptual combination of the keyboard and display for a computer user interface...
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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac (section Virtual PC)
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage. The Professional Edition includes Virtual PC. The Student and Teacher Edition is not eligible for upgrade, which means...
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Virtual Desktop is remote control software for Android-based virtual reality headsets. It allows users to control a PC over a wireless LAN from the headset...
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Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to encapsulate OSI layer 2 Ethernet...
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Connectix, where he developed successful commercial emulators such as Virtual PC and Virtual Game Station. He became Connectix's Chief Technical Officer in 2001...
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2014-08-09. Retrieved 2014-07-28. "What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine?". VMware. "VMware Virtual Disks Virtual Disk Format 1.1". VMware. "CRX Package Format"...
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form of a 1680 KiB Virtual Floppy Disk (VFD) image and IBM Extended Density Format (XDF) images are supported by Windows Virtual PC. Engineering portal...
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high-end specs, they are much more capable. Virtual PC: Unlike blade PCs, some vendors of virtualization software (such as ESX from VMware) have recently...
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images from Windows XP or later systems to be used with Windows Virtual PC, Microsoft Virtual Server or Hyper-V. openQRM, an open-source datacenter management...
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product area, but it soon faced heavy competition from Connectix with their Virtual PC product. Insignia sold the product line to FWB Software in October 1999...
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advantages, they are used in various PC emulation and virtualization packages such as DOSBox, Microsoft Virtual PC, PCem and 86Box. Motherboard interface:...
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similar on surface to the seamless integration of XP Mode based on Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7. A redirector in a "guest" VDM or NTVDM allows access on...
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86Box (category DOS on IBM PC compatibles)
Bochs Parallels VirtualBox VMware Fusion VMware Workstation Windows Virtual PC Bailey, Dustin (14 December 2021). "Two years later, PC emulator 86Box gets...
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x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU. In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved...
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Desktop virtualization can be used in conjunction with application virtualization and user profile management systems, now termed user virtualization, to...
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VMware Workstation Player (category Virtualization software)
running on Windows Virtual PC, which is free of charge for all purposes. Versions earlier than 3 of VMware Player were unable to create virtual machines (VMs)...
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