I test Virtual PC on 1.6 GHz P4 with 750 MB RAM. For
Virtual PC I reserved 256 MB and install Windows XP.
Start of VPC is too slow (aprox. 5 minutes!!!) to login
page.

I installed 2000 server and then did a repair. When
Virtual Machine reboots into the o/s during initial
install, I lose my keyboard/mouse functionality. I am
unable to continue with the server upgrade.

Can everyone who has the downloaded MSDN version or 45 Day
Trial version tell me:
1. What version you have installed i.e. 45 Day or MSDN
Download

I installed RedHat 9 on a virtual disk with VCP.
When i'm busy with redhat and i want to switch from the
VPC screen to my normal desktop it's impossible.
Alt-tab for instance doesn't work then.

I have an IBM Intellistation dual 400MHZ computer with WinXp SP1 and
up-to-date additions from Windows Update. I tried to install Longhorn in a
VPC session and have gotten to a point where if I start other programs, it
will reboot my Intellistation. When it comes back up it tells me ...

I am new with VPC, can someone tell me if it normally takes 3-4 hours to
install an guest OS.  My stuffs: Xeon 2.0 GHZ Pent 4 with 512MB RAM, the
host OS is WinXP.  It took me close to 4 hours to install W2003 and 3 hrs to
install a XP Pro.  Am I under power on the RAM?

I installed a Mandrake 9.2 on Virtual PC 2004 without
problems, but when it boots I'm not able to type anything
with the keyboard in the Virtual Pc window (the mouse
works right).

when installing xp onto the virtual pc the resolution
changed to 4bit colour and i dont know how to get more
colours i tried installing the driver but that failed and
i dont know what else to try

Is it possible to set up a Windows Server 2003 cluster
using VirtualPC ?
Sincerely,
Michael Frandsen

I am trying to use an older digitizer and plotter and
assume that I need to load the appropriate drivers in the
legacy OS. Is there anything I need to do to configure the
serial ports if I am using Windows 2K? And should I be

Hi, Just downloaded the trial and saw the dynamic disk
was 16 gigs so I droped it and created a fixed size vdisk.
went to do some other stuff and then went to winxp
defrag ... hmmm a big swatch of frags?

I have only just recently been introduced to Virtual PC
and I am considering using this as a time-saver in my
job.  I regularly reimage my test machine with Ghost
images, sometimes 4 or more times a day (time

Installing win2k3 server and getting blue screen with
about 6 minutes left. says bad pool error. I have no idea,
please reply to hiddeneyestech@earthlink.net

Has anyone any comments about the "Remote Control" feature that has
disappeared in v2004 vs. v5.2 (trial)?
I've seen some discussion and oblique reference in the help files to using
"Remote Desktop" connections to access guest sessions, but no discussion of

It is possible to boot virtual machine using PXE?
Thanx,
RV