Anyone care to comment on the relative merits of VPC against VMWare
(or vice versa).
I realise VMWare do virtual datacenters and servers etc, but just a
comparison of the Virtual Workstation against VPC.

VMWare Workstation v3+ has a "rapid resume" mode.  The
VirtualPC equivilent would be a "persistent saved state".  
This would effectivly freeze the Virtual Hard Disk, and
the Saved State files, allowing a repeatable quick boot to

We have some remote developers who want to run Windows
Server 2003 on a VPC.  When in the office, this
configuration works fine, as the VPC can grab an IP from
the internal network, however when at home on a cable or

I have an external USB 2.0 drive for my laptop. Will I be
able to utilize the external drive to hold my virtual
installations? I will like to run Windows XP Pro, Windows
2000 Server, Red Hat 9.0, and Windows 2003 Server - all

Will a virtual PC guest OS utilize both processors on a
DUAL processor machine?
-Tony

Is there a way to tell a diff disk that i'd copied to a
new location that the parent is also at that new location ?
My VM won't start !  The diff disk thinks that the parent
is still in the old location.

I am having the same problem finding a DEC 21140a driver
for netware 6 in VPC 2004.
Anyone know where one can be found?
I know that a lot of cards use the 21140A chip...

Can I install "Windows Longhorn Client Preview" on the latest version of
Virtual PC?  Does it support it?

Is it possible to use VPC to create different RIS images? And then deploy
them on actual physical PC's?
I am concerned that the hardware drivers might be an issue but not sure if
the image when booting up will take care of all that. I want to make about

Access to resources off the host are fast. Access to
resources on the host are slow if workable at all.
Typically I'll get unable to access resource error
messages trying to copy off the host computer. I can

My Host OS is WinXP and the guest OS Win3.11. I've tried
to install DOS Additions in order to have share folder
enabled but i couldn't because in the guest OS i have to
use the EMM386. Does anybody know how can i use share

I am running windows 98 from the virtual pc and the
maximum resolution I can get is 1024x768 with 16 bit
color whilst my actual maximum resolution i can get is
1280x768 from my windows xp.

I have installed  VPC 2004 on 3 different machines, 2
running W2K Pro and 1 with XP Pro, and then use MSDOS
6.22 as the guest OS on each. All seem to work except
that the settings for LPT1 on the Virtual PC Console are

Interesting, it would appear old vb6 pukes with error [method '~' of object
'~' failed] on host computer when ever a virtual machine is running.  I knew
this error use to occur when vb6 ran out of memory, but my vm only takes
212meg on a 1 gig machine.  Don't know what else could ...

I'm trying to start a virtual machine from the command
line and it tells me it can't find the .vmc file
I have the .vmc and .vhd on another hard drive (f:\vpc\).
In the command line I use