“The technology will run almost any x86 operating system in a
Virtual PC environment, Huffman stressed. ‘So Linux can be
installed on a virtual machine on Virtual PC. There has been some
misunderstanding about this: You absolutely can run Linux in
Virtual PC,’ she said.“‘We have not removed any technical features that supported
other non-Microsoft operating systems. So there is no negative
impact to customers to running non-Microsoft operating systems on
Virtual PC,’ she said…”