Virtual PC
Originally published on my old blog at cumps.be on February 25, 2005.
Another tool I had at my disposal was Microsoft Virtual PC. This is a product that enables you to run several operating systems inside your existing one, each one of them acting as a real PC.
This was very useful when I needed to test some of the things I created on a different server, a Windows 2003 server running Windows SharePoint Services for example.
After I had created my Windows 2003 image, I could use it on any PC I wanted to work on, on my laptop and on my desktop as well. This proved very useful when having to test against a specific machine.
A virtual PC can share its network with the host operating system, making it possible to run several virtual machines at once, simulating a complete network, each acting as a separate server on the network. This was a very nice feature before deploying something to the real production servers.
A few weeks later I used differencing disks to save disk space with these images.
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