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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / General Topics / May 2008Virtual PC in Vista
Hi ALL: My HP system was built with Vista in mind and has been working flawlessly for a year and a half. It runs better than XP and takes one awful beating from me and my system is on all the time with sleep engaged, waking up to perform tasks on it's own very reliably. I really do not know what people are bitching about! Just lucky I guess. My question has to do with Virtual PC, I have tried 2004 and 2007 and have the same problem with both. In trying to install Ubuntu Linux there just not seem to be a way to get the display resolution correct. In VPC during the install VPC reports that the guest OS has selected a resolution too wide for the screen. I have tried all three resolution options in the VPC setup without sucess. XP installs in VPC perfectly. Linux and XP install perfectly in Virtual Box. Virtual Box has some issues with virtual disk size that I have been unable to resolve or I would just use Virtual Box from Sun systems. and Virtual Box runs much more quickly than VPC. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks George > Hi ALL: > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > George I have had good luck with VirtualBox, and no disk issues. http://www.virtualbox.org/ But had problems with Virtual PC when installing Ubuntu and Solaris. In fact, if I scp in a file from another system into Vista directly, and I do the same inside VirtualBox running Ubuntu or Solaris, I get much better performance over the network than Vista seems to be capable of naively. > > Hi ALL: > > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Hi From George: I am not familiar with the term SCP, please explain it for me? You are reminding me that XP would not go to the internet from VBox. I too noticed that Ubuntu got better download speeds over the internet than did Vista. I found that disk activity in VPC was also slower that VBox. Thanks. George >> > Hi ALL: >> > [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > George Secure Shell Copy (scp). A more secure way to copy files. It can also be used to "tunnel" other services. Been around for years. A secure replacement for telnet and ftp. For Windows machines the client tools are called "PuTTy". A google search for putty and secure shell will yield a current download site and more info. Not included in Vista, you must install separately. But I think all Linux/UNIX variants have it by default these days. > > Hi ALL: > > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > HI from George: My Linux install in Virtual Box would only accept the virtual hard drive if I configured it as a dynamic drive. I tried to configure the virtual hard drive as a fixed 10 gig drive, VBox would not let that happen. You reminded me that I was unable to get networking functioning in Virtual Box for XP. Xp would not go on line from VBox. I am not familiar with the term SCP. Please explain it for me? hanks Hi, You have to follow the steps here: http://www.woodwardweb.com/programming/000387.html  SignatureBest of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com > Hi ALL: > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > George Windy George Wrote Hello Rick: Wow! What a response, this works very well. The Martin Woodward site has this really nailed down. Thank you very much. George > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > > > George |
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