I have been trying to spoof the time and date of a virtual machine on
VM startup time.
Of course, the obvious option is to change my box time/date when
starting the VM, however, that is annoying to do everytime.

Mini newsgroup FAQ for the week of 10/17/2004
HTML version available here: http://vpc.visualwin.com/ngfaq.aspx
Table of Contents
1.. Where can I find more information on Virtual PC?

The reason I ask that I have an old Microsoft 900Mhz
phone that needs to run under 95 due to the version of
Outlook Express required to work correctly, but in a pre-
sp1, the phone would install, but would never be

Can I increase the number of lines and columns displayed in text mode? 25x80
is a waste on a large screen.

Now acknowledges that VPC 2004 SP1 and Virtual Server 2005 exist. Still
pretty basic though, so please let me know if you think i've missed
something important!
http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/vpcfaq/VPC2004SP1.html

tengo instalado virtual pc 2004 pero cuando tengo cargado
el dos no me deja ejecutar programas porque me dice que
el programa es muy grande para cargar en memoria, ya le
he asiganado mas memoria pero sigue saliendo lo mismo....

i am trying to install an MS-Dos OS on a virtual PC
Machine,but my pc doesnt have a floppy any more. I have
tried with a boot-cdrom burnt from the 3 Dos Disks 1-3
from msdos 6.22, but somehow cant succeed. How do i get an

I am behind a proxy server in a LAN. Would Like to know how do I setup
Virtual PC to prompt for my login and password in order to access the
internet.
Justo like I do with my Internet Explorer, inserting

I don't know a lot about servers, but is it OK to install Windows 2003 server
on Virtual PC 2004 or do we need to install on Virtual Server?

i (or the setup app) could not install the network
ethernet switch driver. The install progress screen starts
but cancles with an error message, that says I do not have
enough rights to do that.

I have been trying to install Windows ME that came with my system to begin
with and it won't install. I am running Windows XP Home Edition. When I try
to install ME in the VPC it tells me that This version of Windows Millennium
Edition cannot be installed on your computer. Please ...

Virtual PC would make a great tools for testing expiration date
problems, but it resynchronizes the data and time every few seconds.
If I change the date via the control panel Virtual PC changes it.  How
do I keep it that way?

I think it would be so nice if there was a tool that could make a virtual
hard disk file from an external hard drive.  I have a machine that is dying
slowly and would like to put the hard drive from it into a firewire
enclosure, make an image of the disk into a VirtualPC hard ...

Help
I lose sound when I use I installed win98se and winMe on my VPC6. What do I
have to do to get sound in these Operation Systems.  I ran WINXP and I get
sound, but I use I for homeschooling for my children and Some of the

MS is holding VERY tight on this topic, but a few XP SP2
speed improvements, tweaking to handle Win2003 as a host,
and new VPC additions doesn't say 25MB to me, and a
tweaked NT4ws network code esp. when its only 40mb to