I was just curious and wondering if you guys can give me some info.
What's the maximum size of RAM a VM can have based on size of physical RAM
installed on host system?
A Win XP VM runs at 300 MB when I have 512 MB installed on the system, and

Hi, I want to run few instances of same virtual machine
and i need when they boot, the computer name be unique.
In windows 3.11 i have made a script that do this
(changing system.ini whith random computer name), but i

Recently installed VPC 2004 on a XP Pro laptop with XP Pro as guest OS.
I need internet access on the guest OS - I have set Network Adapter 1 to be
Shared Networking (NAT), as stated in help & on various threads in this news
group.

Is there a way to establish connectivity between 2 virtual pc's?  Please let
me know.

one time I got the error
"One or more files from the Virtual PC installation is missing"
which is in the MS knowledge base (now archived in google by
kbalertz.com)

I have installed Virtual PC in a Terminal Server
environment.
The guest operating system is a Windows 3.11.
Everything is ok, except if I connect with Terminal Server

I am attempting to install a new O/S from an MSDN DVD. My PC did not have a
DVD reader, so I swapped my CD reader out for a DVD unit. My host O/S
recognizes it, but when I create a new Virtual PC, it still picks up the
device as a CD and won't read the disc. Any ideas?

Is there a short-cut key to switch from a full screen VPC session to the
host in full screen leaving te VPC session minimized?
Cheers
Paul

I have made an image of one of my NT4 test servers and loaded it onto the
VS2005.
Everything is fine and the NT server starts up just fine.
However it still thinks that the old NIC from the physical server is still

Can i programmatically access the host machine file system / registry on
which the VPC is running. There has to be a way as the VPC itself enumerates
the file system of the host for the option of folder sharing.
Thanks,

Anyone can tell me if I can use (for device driver testing) Windows XP
running under
VPC as target machine for kernel debugger and host OS as development machine.
I plan to use two different COMs; e.g., COM1 in the "development machine"

The Connetix versions of the Virtual PC Additions supported joystick
emulation - however, this appears to have been quietly dropped in the
microsoft version of the software.  Is this really the case?  Can anyone
verify if joysticks are supported or not in the 2004 version?

I installed Virtual PC 2004 a few days ago and have been using it.  I have a
couple  questions.
1.  How much can you trust task manager performance inside a Virtual PC
session?  It seems like it's always maxed out.

I would like to know if I can just copy a set (xx.vmc and xx.vhd) over to
another drive (or a network drive) and then if I mess up the virtual disk,
can I just copy the set back ontop of the one that I just messed up? and is
there any problem with this.

I have created a DOS console inside VPC 2004 (trial
version). The application running in DOS automatically
creates some files from RS232.
I have to backup these files (2000 files) periodically