SharePoint 2010 Windows 7 Ultimate or Professional - VHD

Question

I’d like to use the VHD from MS in Win 7

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27417

Which Win 7 do I need Home, Prof., Ultimate, is there a differrence or does it not matter?

Sorry for this stupid question.

Answer 1

Only Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate can be booted from the VHD, all other editions are not licensed to use the feature and fail to run.

You can use this 3rd party tool:

http://www.vmlite.com/index.php/products/vboot/download

Which allows booting of all Vista/7 Editions as well as XP and Linux.

Thanks to Andre.Ziegler from the Microsoft Technet forums for that one.