On what criteria does VPC generate a MAC address for a given VM?
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Elias

I'm desperatly trying to make the sound
work under the installation of DOS (MSdos 7.10)
on my virtual PC.
I can get the "midi" music to work but can't

I just made my first Virtual PC. Gave it 64ram, expanding
virtual hard drive and the rest are mostly default
options.
Then I installed the "good ol' MS dos" hoping to play

I have read several items stating that the video "card"
is an emulated Trio 64.  Well, S3 has an identification
program (s3id.exe) that runs in dos to identify the
chipset on the card.  when this is run (in a DOS install)

I'm sure that this is about the millionth time that
somebody has asked this question, but I'll ask just one
more time to make sure; is it possible to run OS X (Mac
OS) using Virtual PC 2004 under Windows XP Pro?

Could someone define these for me?  Microsoft's documentation is a bit thin.

Anyone know of a good tool to zero-fill the free space on
my NTFS vhd?

I was just wondering if you were going to release an
update to VPC that would support the checked build of
windows xp (I read in another post from google that VPC
doesn't support the checked build of xp since it uses a

Hi
Hoping that someone can answer me ? I run a Dos session
under VPC 5.1 and I'm trying to install a 6 disks dos
program (AB6200 software) but when they ask me to put the

I have Virtual PC 2004 installed on a dell C840 laptop
with Win 2K (SP4) as the host Os.  All works well except
the virtual OS (Win XP) cannot access the 1394 (Firewire),
Native USB or CardBus USB 2 devices directly.  In fact,

This is the message I got in XP Virtual PC.  Is it SP2
problem or VPC?
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut
down to prevent damage

I have installed virtual pc 2004 on my AMD 2200 machine
and when I try to create a new vhd and install the OS, it
hangs in the middle of the installation... only a hard
boot would get it back going again.... any ideas?  I

Given the number of people asking the same driver & "how-
to" questions with older operating systems, especially
when dealing with DOS, couldn't Microsoft provide better
documentation on how to set-up older VirtualPC-supported

I loaded VPC onto a Dell P210 Workstation, P3/dual
733/512RAM, W2k Pro + SP3
I can get into the system under SAFE mode, but can't
change anything or uninstall VPC

Here's the setup:
SBS2k3 on a real server
XP Pro host machine joined to SBS's domain
2 XP Pro guest OS's (built individually)