Best Virtual Machine Program

[Ehsaan]

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Hi,
I'm new to this virtual machine concept, i haven't used any of them. So i want to start with the best. Which is the best software application for VPC or Virtual machine?

[Navman]

I'll advice you to go with Microsoft's Windows Virtual PC

Key features of Windows Virtal PC :

• Easy setup of Window XP Mode
• One click launch of Windows XP Mode applications
• USB support

System requirement:

• Hardware Virtualization Technology enabled
  
• 1 GHz 32-bit / 64-bit processor required
  
• Memory (RAM) 1.25 GB required, 2 GB memory recommended
  
• Recommended 15 GB hard disk space per virtual Windows environment

Supported OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx

[Raiz]

There is Parallels and VMware are also good VPC applications. I have used the Vmware , its easy to use.

VMware : http://www.vmware.com/
Parallels : http://www.parallels.com/

Good luck

[Nebersek]

Here is the full comparison of all Virtual machine applications : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...rtual_machines

Bochs and QEmu are some good open source VPC applications.