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Windows Forum / Virtual PC / May 2008Using VMs created in WPC2004 in VVPC2007
Are there any "gotchas" waiting to get me if I try to open a VM created in VPC2004 in VPC2007? The VM in question is a Win95 machine, which I believe is no longer supported in 2007. The VM additions are already installed on the virtual Win95 machine. You may need to turn of hardware virtualization in the Settings for the vm. > Are there any "gotchas" waiting to get me if I try to open a VM created in > VPC2004 in VPC2007? The VM in question is a Win95 machine, which I believe > is no longer supported in 2007. > > The VM additions are already installed on the virtual Win95 machine. >Are there any "gotchas" waiting to get me if I try to open a VM created in >VPC2004 in VPC2007? The VM in question is a Win95 machine, which I believe >is no longer supported in 2007. > >The VM additions are already installed on the virtual Win95 machine. Before you close the guest for the last time in VPC2004 do the following: 1) Uninstall the additions, they are not compatile to VPC2007 2) Shut it down all the way, saved states are not compatible either 3) If you have undo disks enabled I'd do a commit too because I don't know if the undo disks might not also have changed between VPC2004 and VPC2007. Then when you start it up in VPC2007 as one of your first things, install the additions from VPC2007. In some cases additions are not available from VPC2007 (DOS, Win95), in these cases I'd not do step 1 above because then the VPC2004 additions will at least be better than nothing. I have a mix of 2004 and 2007 guests and I have both VPC2004 and VPC2007 installed on my PC and can start either one depending on what guest I want to run. If you want you can do the same. Just reinstall VPC2004 after you have installed VPC2007 and specify a different target folder for VPC2004 than the one suggested. Since VPC2007 won't install if VPC2004 is on the system you have first to uninstall VPC2004... About the "not supported" issue: Suppoorted does not mean "will not work" it just means that Microsoft will not support you over the phone if you run into problems with an unsupported guest in VPC2007. If it ran in VPC2004 it will run in VPC2007 too. He should be OK with the vmadds installed on a Win95 vm. Since there is not a replacement for those adds in VPC 2007 or VPC 2007 SP1 he might want to try the vm as is first. I have a test box I use that for but that is probably not necessary as long as he makes a copy of the vm first so he can get back to a good copy if needed. >>Are there any "gotchas" waiting to get me if I try to open a VM created in >>VPC2004 in VPC2007? The VM in question is a Win95 machine, which I believe [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > unsupported guest in VPC2007. If it ran in VPC2004 it will run in > VPC2007 too. >>The VM additions are already installed on the virtual Win95 machine. >> > Before you close the guest for the last time in VPC2004 do the > following: > 1) Uninstall the additions, they are not compatile to VPC2007 Why do you say that? I've sure had no problems. In fact, I've installed the old additions under the new VPC.  Signature.NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org |
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