I'm trying to install Linux on Virtual PC 2004.
I've tried various distros and none will install.
Suse and Mandrake work fine until I see "VFS:  mounted root
(ext2/minix filesystem)."  Then it just stops.

does anyone know if there is an API available (or planned) for Virtual PC?
There doesn't seem to be anything mentioned in MSDN.
I have a potential requirement to be able to interrogate the contents
(directories/files) of a Virtual hard disk.  The problem is that the virtual

I'm new to Virtual PC is there any books-guides on how to
use Virtual PC, for instance I would like to install
Windows 2000 Server as a Virtual PC on my Windows XP Pro
operating system.

I have a computer with P4 2.4, 1Gb ram, and chipset via
p4x400 from DFI.
When I install Virtual Pc Trial 45 days, the machine run
correctly, but I buy one, and when I install this, and I

I have been running Virtual PC 6  Windows XP Professional on MAC OS
10.2.8 PowerPC G4 since June 2003 without problems.  Suddenly I am
getting a message that "...Windows did not start start successfully.  A
recent hardware or software change might have caused this.  If your

I'm running VPC04 on a P3 1.13GHz notebook with Windows XP and just
completed a Windows 98SE install - it took 2 to 3 hours. I fully expected
the VPC session's performance to be below that of the host PC, but based
what I've read, I didn't think it would be this slow.

I've a big file (7gb)
but the real content is 3.5gb
shrinking result in nothing...
So I've downloaded the eraser tool.

How and where I can find the bootable system disk for my
virtualPc ,i'll be using it for installing a OS
thanks,

Does anyone know if there is any way to upgrade the
emulated hardware? or if MS is planning to release
updates to it at all?  I am running software tests using
VPC and some software(CAD/CAM) does not like the 8mb S3

is it possible to assign a guest os a routable ip address? with two nics
on the physical computer?
thanks,
jon

I am running VPC images of a number of OSs:
Server 2003, Longhorn and RC1 XP SP2 /w Lonestar on top of XP Tablet
Edition.
All but XP SP2 run fine. XP SP2 runs terribly slow. My host computer (Acer

I copied an XP VPC machine and ran Windows mini Setup on
the second image. Gave the machine a new name but the MAC
address stayed the same which means that both machines
always appear to be the same on my domain..

At the end of the installation it says the Virtual
Machine Network Services Driver failed to install and
says to execute the install.bat file located in the
utility folder, which fails also.

I have a dual boot system Win2k/XP Pro. I have loaded VPC
on Win2k but everytime I try to load XP Pro via VPC it
locks up on mup.sys. The Win2k box is logged onto the
network via Novell (which is also loaded on XP Pro). Any

I have a network card installed as well as an ISDN device
in the host machine. Within VP I can only address the
network card but not the ISDN device. I cannot find in the
help files that installing an ISDN driver is not possible.