Vista RC2, Virtual Server 2007
Last time around, I said the performance in RC2 had gotten substantially worse than RC1. It seems that assessment was premature and I am now things seem a lot better. I downloaded Virtual PC 2007 from my beta program and it is running very well under Vista. Right now, Vista is handling the following load with little noticeable performance issues:
- Outlook 2007 with RSS Feeds updating
- GetRight downloading the Windows SDK
- Virtual PC 2007 installing Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise to USB drive
- Windows Media Player 11/URGE streaming Beck - The Information
- This app
- Windows Live OneCare Beta 1.5
- Various IE7
The problem with RC2 that remains is that my NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 doesn't have Glass. Any of the WDDM drivers I install gets disabled by Vista on boot and reverted to the standard VGA driver. I'm glad that Microsoft is doing the right thing here as 95% of Windows blue screens and such issues are caused by bad drivers. I am disappointed however that something seems wrong here with my card as I know its a supported card and maybe its an RC2 bug.
Oh, one thing that is mighty cool in Vista is something I have always wanted in Windows like forever - the ability to shrink or expand partitions from the Disk Manager. I was worried about having to go out and doing it with Acronis but didn't have to!
Important Note on the above from Daniel Moth - "but be careful with drives/partitions at the end of the disc as they cannot be extended with no workaround (at the time I looked at this at least)."