Seriously, is anything new in VPC 2004 besides
replacing "Connectix" with "Microsoft"?  I'm using
VirtualPC 5.2 and, searching everywhere, cannot find any
information on any upgrades or new features in the 2004

VIRTUAL PC 2004 FOR WINDOWS WORK WORK ON AMD 2500 CPU
I HAVE THE PREVIOUS SOFTWARE VIRTUAL PC FROM CONNECTIX
AND EVERYTHING WORKS FINE.
THE VIRTUAL PC 2004 CRASH/LOCKUP WHEN I TRY TO INSTALL AN

Trying out VPC to use Win98 and an old scanner that won't
work under XP. This worked fine when I tried Connectix
VPC, but now my scanner software tells me there is no EPP
port. Tried installing and ECP port but no good, and

Has anyone been testing Virtual Server 2004? If so, has
anyone been able to automatically start the virtual
machines when the host machine boots up? Finally, what's
the latest Beta available?

BMO plans to deploy VPC 2004 to large number of
developers. The configuration of VPC 2004 when deployed
is such that developers will be constrained to local PC
(only network options will be Not Connected, Local Only

I have setup the Host and the guest using the loop-back
in both cases. I have assigned static IP for each loop-
back adapter. Pinging the guest from host and vs. returns
the "request timed out".

Hi @ll,
I downloaded the (english) trial of VPC on 2004-01-17 (filename is
"MicrosoftVirtualPC2004EnglishTrial.exe", download URL is
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4a15008c-3e10-4c54-bcd5
-adc1e780715f&DisplayLang=en).

Hi;
I'm probably asking a question that has been asked
already, but here goes.
Is there an API available for Virtual PC 2004?  I've

I have a MSDN Univ sub.  If I have Office 2003 installed on my host/primary
machine can I install it on a Virtual PC in order to do some testing?  If I
activate it will it be considered the same PC or a new one?  Physically it
is on the same machine.

Anyone,
I have noted that each of the vo/s ie Windows 2000 & 98
have access to the internet through their own vitual
network interface, This prompts me to ask,

I'm try to setup an win2k server as Host, add VPC Win98
and another VPC with Win2k Pro.  I can get the server to
assign an IP address, but I cant get on the internet with
either VPC.  granted I don't know alot about networking

Can anybody tell me if they got the FQDN to work with
Virtual server 2005, I get a error message
saying "insufficent acces rights" , but if I connect
using the logon in question directly to the server and

I can't load a virtual Windows NT 4 Server on a machine
that Dual Boots between Windows 2000 Professional and
Windows Server 2003.  I receive either a error that says
that Windows NT has detected an OS that it can't co-exist

I cannot get the original SB16 DOS sound drivers to work
in VPC 2004 build 582.
At boot time the drivers report an error. When I manually
run diagnose it reports a base IO address that cannot be

When I tried to install the VM additions, I get a Windows Installer error. I
then installed the display and mouse manually by pointing to INF files.
After complaining about using an old installation method, it installed both.
When it rebooted, the display looks great, but the mouse ...