It seems pretty straightforward to use Virtual PC 2007. The only problem people might encounter while making a guest Window XP is to setup its network environment. By following the suggestions in this post, I select "Shared Networking(NAT)" and configure to use DHCP in the guest OS. Then everything works and the virtual gateway in the guest OS is always 192.168.131.254.
On the other hand, if I want to connect to the guest OS from the host, I need to select a network adapter for the guest OS and assign an IP address for the adapter in the guest OS. Also, be sure to turn off the firewall in the guest OS. Then the outside machine can access server applications in the guest OS.
Finally, the "Undo Disks" option in the setting is useful, too. If enabled, I can rollback the changes I make to the guest OS since it starts.
Update: Here is a post compiled a list of many useful information about Virtual PC.
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Check out http://codebetter.com/blogs/paul.laudeman/archive/2005/04/19/Microsoft-Virtual-PC-Tip-_2D00_-Using-the-Microsoft-Loopback-Adapter.aspx
The post showes you how to use Microsoft Loopback Adapter to connect a virtual machine to the internet.
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