When I look in the Device Manager of my virtual Windows sessions, they all
show "Virtual HD."  To some extent I think I am about to ask a rhetorical
question, but.... is there a way to change this?
Joe

if nero is unavailable , use
MKISOFS.EXE
it create iso file from a command line , the only
drawback , is DOES NOT create a bootable cd ,

I need some assistance on steps to setup differencing
disk. Can someone help me with this.

I can't seem to find answers to the following questions on virtual disks in
the documentation.  If you can help, it would be appreciated.
1) When would I use differencing disks?
2) How do differencing disks differ from any other disk type with undo

Ok thatnk's for helping me but unfortunately i can not
start redhat on vpc2004 only on the xxxx my sis 315 is not
supported and the trouble comes out with the virtual card
used from vpc 2004 taht why i write that xxx is ok but i

If I need a virtual machine to be addressable on a network external to its
host system (e.g. can ping it from external system), are my options for
networking limited to sharing the network adaptor with the host?  Advice
would be appreciated.

That's fine if you're using XP, if not try CDBurnerXP (supports Win 9X, Win2K, WinXP) from:
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
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You need ISO Recorder free from

I recently downloaded the new SuSE 9.1 ISO image that has been made
available by SuSE. Unfortunatley, while the installation works just
fine, rebooting to the "hard drive" fails. Grub reports that no
bootable Kernel was found. When I look at the drive image I find that

i'm using virtual server 2005 to do a platform of 50
virtual machine in the same server just for experience

Only some minor stuff on the "live" section,  but still it had to be done.
Please let me know if I should be adding something but haven't.
I'm working on a "best practices" document, to guide people in how best to
use VPC in various scenarios. I'd really appreciate any help, ...

I have Windows Server 2003 running under Virtual PC 2004
on a Windows XP Pro host PC.
I've been having a problem that Windows 2003 Server keeps
spontaneously rebooting.

I keep trying to post the same question again and again in hope someone can
help me in some way.  Any help would be very much appreciated.  Here is
problem:
I need to have my virtual sessions be publicly addressable external to the

Is it possible to alter the screen resolution on my Linux VPC to something
more usable than 800x600?  My screen is a LG L1710B TFT (1280x1024) on a
DVI connection with a Sapphire ATI Radeon Graphics Card.
Thanks

Can somebody post  a guide to installing Xandros Linux 2SE (mine was from
Australian PC Authority) under VPC2004?

I successfully installed the VPC 2004 trial and have several
VMs with XP in them running fine.
The problem I have is that the "Virtual PC Console" window
is too small and appears unsizable.  It has a sizing border,