i have XP with NTFS and when i try to install 98 i got the
message - Cannot create temporary directory If you have
HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive you will need to
create an MS-DOS boot partition to set up Windows.....

I've seen questions asked if MSVPC will run on WinXP Home.
I can say that I've been using it on WinXP Home now for quite a while and
haven't had any single problems.
Microsoft will, correctly, tell you (and I'm sure someone will reply to this

Anyone have any success installing Oracle 8.1.6 server or any version
of Oracle on VPC? I have a Client OS : Windows 2000 Server and am
attempting to run the Oracle setup and nothing happends. The setup
application begins and ends with not errors.

Thanks for the respones on my first question regarding
SATA support.
I'm using Remote Desktop over a WAN link to connect to my
XP box that's running VPC 2004. When using my mouse inside

I am new to this, so excuse my question....
I am installing XP Pro into a VPC. I have a disk partition that I can
put the VHD file into. This will be an NTFS system and I was wondering
rather I should select the Dynamic or Static disk option?

I have noticed that virtually all the Linux distros I
have loaded in VPC begin with two lines as follows:
"isapnp: checksum for device 1 is not valid (0x89)"
"isapnp: checksum for device 2 is not valid (0xbe)"

Can it be done? Being very pleased with VPC2004 I've taken
my explorations one step further, one bridge to far?
I have 3 physical OS's installed on my physical computer.
So far my attempts to start a second physical OS in

OK, this is admittedly sick and not of any real value. Just wondering if
anybody has tried to install VPC 2004 on a guest OS?  I suspect that VPC
detects this and prevents installation?  :-)
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I tried to install a w2k Server, but when he asks for the
product key, he does not accept the one i have written on
the cd or given by my msdn subscription
any idea how to solve?

I am getting an error when installing Virtual PC 2004 on
a laptop.  I get an error that says "The Virtual Machine
Network Services driver has failed to install".  If I run
the install.bat utility, that doesn't seem to correct the

I just bought VPC 2004 and was wondering if I can buy an
SATA HD to run most of my VHDs off of. Does anyone know
if VPC 2004 supports SATA hard drives?

Just ordered VPC 2004, any tips or advice on installing over
the 45-day trial version ?

Hi my name is Tom,
I have a problem with VPC 2004 my host system ist win xp
on HP evo 310 with intel pro 100 ve nic
I try to boot my vpc by using the win2003 ris boot disk

I am trying to load Suse 9.0 on my VPC but without success. I use the
Shared Networking setting and boot from the Boot- CD to start an FTP
installation. This works so far the setup loads about 50 megs into its
ramdisk and then the graphical yast2 starts up. But then it will stop ...

I expect this is blindingly obvious to the non-specialist,
but I'm hopelessly confused.
I create a virtual PC.  I boot it up to DOS with an image
in the virtual floppy drive.  So far so good.  BUT how do