Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Advantage:
- 64-bit support
- dynamic memory allocation
- multi-core CPU
- Can install Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 and later
Disadvantage:
Windows Virtual PC after XPMode installation
Advantage:
- USB connection
- Direct access to all host drives
Disadvantage:
- Not really intuitive management UI at first
- No 64-bit support
- No Windows 7
Regular Virtual PC
Advantage:
- Simple and quick to get started
- Virtual hard drive created here has the least problem getting migrated into other setup.
Disadvantage:
- Not scalable at runtime
- No 64-bit support
- No windows 7 support