New Virtualisation PC

[Reaper]

What bugs me is that Microsoft has offered a software virtualisation package for a long while and now they're saying 'Nope sorry, no more'

[Ric_]

I was going to suggest, as Joedetic did, Debian (or Solaris if you want a challenge) and VirtualBox.

As it happens, I'm just installing a Debian VM in VirtualBox on my Windwos 7 machine as we speak. No slowness in sight and networking is a breeze (a couple of versions ago, bridged networking was a pain to set up but it's all automagic now).

[Reaper]

So what the hell is wrong with my system for it to be that slow.... think there is some networking issue somewhere

[Reaper]

Found out that WinPE has a firewall builtin. For those who might want to turn it off:

Add the following command to your startnet.cmd

wpeutil.exe DisableFirewall

[Ric_]

@Zoom7000: So what did you choose to do in the end?