I am looking to make a VPC session running Windows 2003
Server pick up an IP from the DHCP Server on my cable
network.  The host system is running XP Pro and works fine
and grabs IP, DNS Servers, etc from the cable network.  My

I'm a bit confused. Last night I saw a developer use VPC
to host a virtual instance of W2003.
I'm planning to install XP to bare metal. Then install VPC
2004. Then install W2003 Standard Edition with a

I uninstalled about 400MB worth of applications from my
VPC 2004 (5.3) disk image but was displeased to discover
that my dynamic image size did not get smaller.  I tried
the compact image utility via the disk image wizard, but

eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 installs a "Virtual PC Emulated Ethernet Switch" as
a network component.
Is this compatible with Virtual PC 2004?
In short: are Virtual PC 2004 and eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 compatible?

Probably a FAQ...
I have XP SP1a installed as VPC 2004 guest. Most of time the cursor is
"mixed up". It is functional. However, it almost always appears as a
combination of two cursors: Arrow, Insertion or Finger.

It seems the arbitrary screen resizing doesn't work with Longhorn 4051.

I'm running Windows 2003 on a Windows XP host. When I
run msinfo.exe it only shows me 64MB of total physical
memory. I've changed the memory level to 128 and 256 with
the same response. Any ideas?

I was trying to run some programs in win2k installed in my
virtual pc, and was unsuccessful. The state bar informs me
that the live resolution switching is turned off. may i
know how could i turn it on? thx.

I created a MSVPC2004 2003 Server in a workgroup
configuration and then distributed the .vhd to multiple
physical host machines.  Now I'm getting 'duplicate' name
exists on the network errors.

Installed VPC 2003 with no problem.  When I went to
create a new virtual machine, I used a Virtual hard
disk.  After asking me for the guest operating system,
Windows 2003, the VPC appears to boot up and I get the "A

I've got a Win98 VPC image that I was using in VPC 5.2 with the additions
installed. I've upgraded it to the VPC 2004 and it will boot fine until I
install the additions and reboot. The problem is with the hostmaus.drv (I
think that's the name). This appears to be the VPC mouse ...

In previous posted messaged I described some issues with
clipboard and VS 6 on host OS (also GPF).
I'm using XP PRO as host and W2K Server + SQL server as
guest.

host: Windows XP latest updates
guest: new Windows 98
I have successfully created a guest machine running Windows XP.
Now I'm trying to install Windows 98 into a new guest machine.

I've been able install 98, 2000 and any older OS's but
I'm running into trouble throwin XP Pro down.  It looks
like it's attempting to write over my previos MBR within
my root.  I've tried redirecting this to an alternate

I was really hoping that (at last) we would be able to run MAC OS on a
windows machine. Is this ever gonna happen?
Thanks