VirtualPC on Windows 7 Home

If you go to the official Virtual PC website (http://www.microsoft.com/virtualpc) and indicate that you are running Windows 7 Home – you will be (correctly) informed that you are not eligible to run Windows XP Mode. This is desceptive since you should still be able to download and run just Virtual PC as this blog post indicates : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/07/07/installing-windows-virtual-pc-on-windows-7-home-editions.aspx. You can download Virtual PC for Windows 7 directly from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2B6D5C18-1441-47EA-8309-2545B08E11DD.

Or, just install the also free VMWare Player 3.1 which all reports inidicate runs XP faster with more options.