Testing Windows 7

First build to be released, 6801. And so the fun begins........
I have set up my "test lab". With limited resources one has to make do, so W7 got installed in a VM and as dual boot with Vista on my desktop PC and my laptop.

Lab setup:

VVM: Vista Ultimate running in VMWare on the desktop
W7VM: Windows 7 running in VMWare on the desktop
VD: Vista Ultimate on the desktop
W7D: Windows 7 on the desktop
VL: Vista Business running on an Asus R1F
W7L: Windows 7 running on an Asus R1F
Above machines on a network where VD/W7D are on a wired connection, VL/W7L are on a wireless connection and 3 other PCs run Vista Basic, XP Professional SP2 and XP Home SP2. All machines share a printer connected to the VD/W7D.
A second network is available if need be, wireless only.


Installation

All 3 installs went without incidents.
In VMWare W7 installed without any problems and VMTools have been installed and work. Sharing partitions, copy/paste from physical to virtual, connecting/disconnecting peripherals, everything just worked.
On the desktop the only device that was not recognized OOB was a very old TV tuner card. Pointed the driver update wizard to the folder with the XP drivers for that card and one reboot later no more unrecognized devices......Prett impressive for a pre-beta OS.
On the laptop there were 2 drivers not found, the touch chip driver and the biometric coprocessor. For the first one the built-in solution manager pointed to the correct download page for the driver, and for the second one I have pointed the driver update wizard to the Windows/System32/Driver Store folder on the Vista partition and once again no more unrecognized devices.
The only thing I never got to work in Vista, the software for my old HP PSC 2175 printer, doesn't work in W7 either. My accepted work around, Omnipage standard edition, installed and works in all 3 installs.