Windows Forum - Virtual PC

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Congratulations	30 Jan 2004 20:56 GMT	6
To both Paul Adare and Steve Jain, new MVPs I see! Does this mean the rest of us can return to normal duties and leave y'all to it? Rob
Flashing host screen	30 Jan 2004 19:50 GMT	10
I have windows 2000 on host and no matter what os on the guest os, when i used vpc my host seems to flash a lot, but when i stop using vpc, and its idle, my host doesn't flash, i've tried every different sort of option for the
Virtual PC and Citrix	30 Jan 2004 18:34 GMT	4
We're currently using windows 2000 servers running Citrix metaframe XP and we are able to support up to 70 concurrent terminal server sessions on a box with 2GB Ram. In a bid to consolidate the number of servers we have, I'm
Question: using same virtual hard disk with different vm.	30 Jan 2004 17:35 GMT	1
I am not talking about differencing. The question flashed my brain last night while I was doing Win2K differencing with undo hard disk but I still needs to compact the vhd once in a while.
Performance Questions	30 Jan 2004 17:33 GMT	4
I was wondering if anyone knew whether there was any guest machine performance gain in using Fixed sized disks vs. Dynamic? I have already read the MS article 824355 - How to
XP Home Edition	30 Jan 2004 15:41 GMT	13
> If your host is NOT Windows 2000 professional or Windows XP > Professional and you do not intend to "upgrade", consider that VPC > 2004 don't run on less than Windows 2000 and that is not supported on > Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server.
ctrl-alt-del	30 Jan 2004 12:11 GMT	4
I want to make the virtual PC accept ctrl-alt-del for user login as well as the other standard keys (ctrl-c, ctrl-v,etc), so that no one will ever find out it's a virtual PC. The REAL PC should have the special key
Keyboard problem on HP Compaq nx7000	30 Jan 2004 09:14 GMT	4
I've got a problem with the nx7000 laptop computer : the Fn key is activated by default in the virtual Machine. If I press the 'm' key, I have a '-' character, I must press Fn+'m' to have a 'm'. I've tested with French windows XP SP1 guest OS and French Windows Server
Sound Drivers	30 Jan 2004 02:30 GMT	4
What Sound Drivers for MS-DOS does Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 use? (And where to find them)
misc problems and performance issues	30 Jan 2004 01:51 GMT	1
I have been running virtual pc 2004 for around a month. Originally I had been using the trail version of Connectix virtual pc version 5. I have been using virtual pc 2004 with dos 6.22 and windows 3.1 however windows 3.1
shared networking vs VMwa ws NAT	30 Jan 2004 01:05 GMT	6
The setup DSL-->host--> vm with NAT (vmwa ws4) DSL-->host--> vm with shared networking (vpc 2004) With VMwa, you can surf the net from the guest with no
Problem of using Eraser.	29 Jan 2004 22:48 GMT	3
I ran the Eraser the first time last night, and I set up the zeros for unused spaces in VHD. After Eraser finished job, I found that my VHD got blown up to almost 16G from nearly 2G.
Installing Windows 98	29 Jan 2004 20:30 GMT	3
I have the MSDN iso for English Windows 98 SE. Not sure how to get setup to run of the cd??? Any steps to get this os installed under Virtual PC is appreciated. Note I have installed XP home, XP pro, Win3K, Win2L pro and long
Windows XP initial partition	29 Jan 2004 20:30 GMT	3
When installing Windows XP it wants to create a partition the same size as the free space on my physical drive. Is this where I would limit the size of my initial virtual drive? I'm worried that it will go off an parition part
Newbie: 16GB size of 1st harddisk?	29 Jan 2004 20:21 GMT	2
I just installed my first Win2000 Server guest under MS Virtual PC 2004. Worked like a dream but the first Hard Disk it creates has a max size of 16GB. How can I adjust this size during the install? (And for tha matter where