Can a VPC guest setup be copied to a different host computer? There
are apparently only two files that define a guest, Hard Disc.vhd and
Machine.vmc. Is it possible to copy these two files to another
computer that has VPC installed and run the guest on the new host? Or

Hello all, I am a newbie with VPC and am in the process of ordering a new
Athlon 64 based machine. After some advise from others they recommended I
use Virtual PC 2004 to run both Server 2003 and Windows XP on the machine
rather than just running the Server OS as my main desktop ...

As has been stated on this forum, it can be slow to build guest operating
systems. As a technical author, my courseware currently relies on scripted
windows builds on blank machines for classroom labs. I am in the process of
switching to self study materials relying on VPC. ...

I want to use a USB card reader in Virtual PC. Can I use an adaptor to change
the USB port to a Serial port card reader?
Many thx!

I built my XP with a virtural disk of 3gib.  Now I need it to be 4
gigs. I have plent of space on my host but I dont want to rebuild the
virtural XP?

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I would want to know if it is possible to use an image of  HD create with
the norton ghost.
IgnazioC

i have created a dynamic partition of 4GB for the guest win 2000, and
currently it uses up 3.5GB, what if i keep installing new software which
over 4GB size, will it automatically expanding it or anyway i can do with
it?

I need some help with this problem. I have been fighting it for about a
month. I am running 6 VPC's on the host.

Is it possible to improve hard disk operations performance in Virtual PC by
using RAID on a host computer?

I haven't installed it yet because I haven't reformatted my hard disks as
yet.  I downloaded virtual pc from msdn, and no serial number comes with it.  
What happens when it asks for one?
dennis

I have suffered this problem on 2 previous occasions and I'm hoping someone
can provide me with a solution to this reoccuring issue.  Whenever I try to
do a repair or upgrade of a guest OS, be it 2000 or XP, i find that the mouse
pointer integration fails to work during the setup ...

Upon upgrading my host system to sp2, the guest system can no longer use the
network. I see the Windows Firewall dropping "Windows Messenger" related
packets from the guest machine to the host machine.
How is one supposed to get VirtualPC 2004 running under a sp2 host?

i am using broadband, and before the internet in my VPC is working, but
suddenly it just doesn't work, i didn't change any settings in VPC nor i
didn't upgrade to services pack 2, the internet just doesn't work~
my settings for the network is setted to share networking,

How much are the medium performance degrading
in % on an XP system with 1 Gb Ram?
and when the Sp2 fix will be released?
and for usb support?