On 8/26/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Does anyone in the SAGE development group have a version of Microsoft
> > > Windows that supports Microsoft Virtual PC 2007? I have Vista Home
> > > Premium on my laptop but it does not support Microsoft Virtual PC
> > > 2007.
> >
> > Very interesting.  Do you mean that the operating system
> > "Vista Home Premium" can't even run Microsoft Virtual PC
> > images?
>
> Yep, that is the case. There no technical reasons to exclude  "Vista
> Home Premium", but Microsoft requires
>
> Host operating system: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista
> Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Server 2003 Standard
> Edition, Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition, Windows XP
> Professional, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
>
> to run Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. "Vista Home Premium" sounds like an
> oxymoron to me, but that is another story.

Amazing.   Are these guys in Redmond for real?  :-)
In any case, it's valuable to know that using Virtual PC is
useless for distributing SAGE for most home users...

> > No.  I would try XP, though, which I have on a Windows laptop
> > that I bought a few years ago.  Does Virtual PC work on
> > Windows XP?
>
> Yes, it should.

Evidently only XP pro... but fortunately I think that's the version
I have.

 -- William

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