Just wondering if anyone has had any positive experiences using Microsoft's
Cipher tool (Win2k, Win3k, and XP) to zero out data in order to compact the
virtual drives? Does anyone know the exact method used by the Cipher tool
for overwriting (Is it the zero three byte pattern needed ...

Here is the environment that I have -
Host : Windows 2003 DC running DNS, DHCP (disabled)
N/W Adapters: 2 physical cards (disabled), 1 MS loopback
adapter

Can someone help me please?
I have a real PC with Windows XP Professional where I
installed the Microsoft Loopback Adapter and thr Virtual
Machine Service Installed. I manualyy set the IP adress of

I'm currently running VPC '04 on a 2003 Advanced Server
host with an install of 2000 Advanced Server in VPC.
I use the VPC server as a SQL test server & 2003 is for my
IIS.

I want to extend a pc card slot for pcmcia card (SANDISK
type)on my guest WIN98 VPC running on a Compaq EvoN610C. I
tried to install the compaq driver whitout success ("the
plateform is not supported"). I have all the drivers

Whenever creating or adding a VM the default location is
always My Virtual Machines within My Documents for the
user logged in.  Does any no if there is a way to change
this so it defaults to a common location on a different

I was wonder if anyone experiences problems with the
mouse pointer disappearing in the guest OS when moving
over text boxes or when the cursor changes to the I
cursor?

Is there a way to lock down the VPC so that a user cannot
make any changes to the configuration settings (i.e.
network, virtual disks, creation of addition VPCs)?
Thanks

I'd like to bood wiht a ghost network boot disk. The host
is a HP d530cmt tower with a Boardcom Gigabit Network
Adapter.
If I start the Virtual PC with the floppy, the Virtual PC

I just had a hell of a time trying to get SuSE 9.0
installed on Virtual PC 2004.  I tried searching online
forever, with little success so I'm going to post it on
here in hopes that this gets indexed by a search engine

i tried to install virtial pc 2004 trial, but it asks for
a product key, if I did not enter anything and
clicked 'next', an error dialog will pop up and showing
nothing at all, where can I get the product key? in the

Okay, I was stoked to get this going only to find that it
completely causes my machine to reboot when I click START
to launch the install.  It doesn't matter what OS i'm
trying to install, my host pc just flat out reboots.

I HAVE WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL INSTALL ON MY MACHINE.
I ALREADY HAVE VIRTUAL PC INSTALL FROM CONNECTIX AND
EVERYTHING WORKS FINE.
I INSTALL VIRTUAL PC 2004 AND NOW I CAN'T INSTALL WINDOWS

I have created my first Virtual Machine with Win XP Pro. What I want to do
now is create 3 or 4 additonal VM's.  I have been reading the Help but I'm
confused.  I thought that once I set up the 1st VM (Parent) I could
basically clone it and create additonal VM's on the fly.  If I ...

I am tying to install teh VOC Addons the HD is 2GB Dynamic, the host has a
lot of empty space.
I get a Not enough space error.