Win 7 Pro or home for DAW use, any advantage to the 7 pro over home, and will pro run in XP virtual mode for XP apps on an Asus p5b-vm se MoBo with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 Gig?

I'm a happy Windows 7 Home Premium user. The extra features that come with Professional don't really apply to DAWs - at least not directly. Here's an article that was published in PC World that details some of the major differences:
 
http://www.pcworld.idg.co...indows_7_professional/

I use Win 7 Home - my current motherboard is limited to 8GB, so the memory limit is not an issue, and I really don't need any of the other features - or if I do need them I don't know it yet!

OK - for Windows 7 x64:
 
RAM limits for Windows 7:
 
Basic - 8 GB
 
Home Premium - 16 GB
 
Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate - 192 GB
 
So, IF you ever want to access more than 16 GB of memory in Windows 7, you need either Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, or Windows 7 Ultimate.
 
8 GB memory is still OK for running Sonar - although when you get into complex, large projects, you may need to freeze things and be judicious with things loaded into memory.
 
16 GB should be a real good amount of memory, and IF you can get it, 32 GB is FABULOUS, but you should still be OK with either 8 GB or 16 GB.
 
I run with 32 GB and never ever have to worry about anything to do with memory.
 
Bob Bone