Professor Geek

I downloaded the ISO image of the Windows 7 Beta (build 7000) last night.  It’s a 2.2 gb DVD image.  Today I used the ISO image, booted to my copy of VMWare Workstation 6.5 and installed Windows 7 into a virtual machine.  The whole process was automated.  VMWare Workstation recognized that I had a Vista image (which is how Windows 7 looks to other programs) and it used the automated wizard to install unattended, including the installation of VMWare Tools.  Everything went flawlessly, the setup only took 15 minutes, and it runs like a charm.  So far, very fast to boot and run.

I have it running in a 16gb virtual hard drive with 1 gb of RAM allocated.  That seems to be adequate for it, although I have not done much with it so far.  All I have installed is AVG Free, but it also installed without a hitch, updated, and seems to be working fine.  I’ll report more later as I have a chance to put it through its paces.  So far, it seems more streamlined than Vista, which probably would still be loading in a 1gb RAM machine as I write this and would have taken the better part of an hour to install.

More later.

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