
Printer redirection – Print directly to your attached printer from your seamless application or virtual machine.Clipboard sharing – Cut and paste between your Windows 7 host and any virtual machine.Seamless applications – Publish and launch applications installed on virtual Windows XP directly from the Windows 7 desktop, as if they were installed on the Windows 7 host itself.įolder integration between host and guest – Access your Windows 7 Known Folders: My Documents, Pictures, Desktop, Music, and Video, from inside the virtual Windows environment, such as Windows XP Mode.These devices include printers and scanners, flash memory/sticks and external hard disks, digital cameras, and more. USB support – Users can access USB devices attached to the host directly from virtual Windows XP.Easy setup of Windows XP Mode – Once both the Windows Virtual PC and the virtual Windows XP environment are installed, Windows Virtual PC provides a simple wizard to set up Windows XP Mode with just a few clicks.Some of the new features of Virtual PC include: Finally, Microsoft is adding many features that are already long present in 3rd-party virtualization software like VMware Workstation and Sun Virtual Box. The list of features for the new version is impressive when compared to the old Virtual PC 2007 version (which had none of these).

Windows Virtual PC is a feature of Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7 Enterprise, that allows you to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop.
