Finally IDA 5.1 and Virtual PC 2007 have been released. I wrote about IDA during the beta-phase and I promise to write some more stuff (probably) the next weekend.
Virtual PC 2007, just like its predecessor Virtual PC 2004, is freely downloadable and comes free of charge. Although it is inferior to VMWare in several aspects, it seems there is one point where Virtual PC 2007 is better than VMWare … the support of VMX on 32bit hosts. However, I’ll have to verify that and will turn back to you with more information about it once I have it.
// Oliver
VmWare have possibility to run x64 guests on x86 hosts, but VPC2007 can’t. VPC2007 run more faster than VMWare.
I can run on VPC2007 FreeBSD and OpenSUSE .
Heard that meanwhile, but it seems to depend heavily on the version of the processor.
The faster is because of VMX 😉
// Oliver