I am wondering if there is any possible way to use virtual pc and create a machine that runs as a slower or different processor?  Such as, create a virtual machine that emulates an amd k-6 or an intel pentium II.

If the host NIC is not configured with TCP/IP, will
local,shared and virtual networking continue to work?
Does the "external only" networking mode completely
isolate the host from any network access attempts

I'm trying to install W2K3 Server in a Virtual PC 5.2 environment. During
the setup phase, I encountered the following error:
   dmio.sys is corrupted
My only option was to reboot the guest. I tried the install again. This

I'm using a virtual PC emulating COM1 with a named pipe.
I have it connected to WinDbg for kernel debugging, and
it seems to work fine, from a functional standpoint.
However, the connection is no faster than a real COM

Can someone have any idea on how to build a training
website like the one in the Microsoft partners online
lab?  Virtual PC?? And what else do I need to create
website like that.

Any Dos or Win9x applications that directly access custom
hardware io port (eg 0x300, etc.) will not work properly
under MS-VPC 2004.

Does anyone know if the networking services in the host
PC enables promiscuous mode on the physical Ethernet
adapter in the "Virtual Networking" mode?
If there is only one physical Ethernet adapter in the

I installed Fedora, without any problems, and have been using it for a few
days, but it no longer shows up in Virtual PC Console.  The VMC and VHD
files still exist, as does the relevant shortcut in
CSIDL_APPDATA\Microsoft\Virtual PC\Virtual Machines, which points to the

I have a win98 that will not boot but I can restore a backup in vpc and I
can load it, but boot with a win98se floppy.  Then I can see the file system
on the c drive, but the problem seems to be in vpc additions.
I can drag the flopy additions to the flpy icon on the vpc, but they ...

I recently took a look at the Virtual PC executable's COM itnerfaces, and it
appears that standard scripting languages can't touch it - it isn't possible
to create a reference to the IVirtualPC interface, and browsing through
typelibs it looks like the problem may be due to there ...

I'm using Virtual PC 2004, installed Windows 98se into a
virtual session.  The machine logs into my windows 2000
domain ok, but gets "Error 1: An internal error occurred.
Quit all current processes, restart your

I'm having a problem with Windows XP Pro Host & Windows
XP Pro Guest both at SP1. The guest PC can't ping the
host PC, although the host can ping guest. The guest PC
can ping other machines on the LAN. It can also resolve

I was able to get net BSD 1.6.1 to load into a virtual machine and get to
the # prompt. I could NOT however get the XFree 86 system to run. Apparently
the video driver doesn't work with the video card that is being emulated. I
have also got Red Hat 9.0 to work (complete with X ...

I have read the insctuctions on MS' Web site on How to
Create a Virtual PC 5.2 Drive Image of a Physical Hard
Drive (Knowledge Base Article - 824669).  The
instructions did not work for restoring a Windows 2000

first time installing VPC. they are asking for serial #.  
Downloaded trial version, anyone know where I get serial
#.  MSFT site is no help.