How can I define a physically not available adapter for the virtual machine,
that is mapped onto the real one, like it works under VMWare? E.g. (and that
is really preferred) AMD PCNet32 to a Rhino Ethernet whatever, that is
supported under WindowsXP.

I am configuring a view virtual machines and need a router in order to get
some software i have on them working.
Can anyone suggest any kind of simple Virtual Router that i can use to
emulate a real live router.

My test machine's host has a NIC with static IP. I have
one VPC that it's network setting has been set to "local"
(that is loopback). I have assigned static IP to the VPC
too. I try Pinging the Host from the VPC I get not

I know that microsoft.public.virtualserver exists, but my question is when is
the web based communities, here at microsoft, going to be able to see it?  I
work for a government org and our IT dept will NOT allow NNTP connections so
I can not connect to Microsoft's NNTP servers.  ...

is it possible to have Virtual PC 2004 SP1 and VMware Workstation or GSX
Server (latest versions) guest systems
a) installed
b) running simultaniously

I set up a virtual PC to work with Visual Studio 2005 in order to keep it
separate from my standard development environment. However, for various
reasons I would like the Whedbey WebForm applications to be hosted on the
host IIS rather than the VPC IIS.

Please can anyone inform me if VPC 2004 is SMP compliant? I setting up a
test environment and need to run at least 3 VM's (Win002. Win003. WinXp).  
Currently I am considering using WinXP Pro as the host OS.
Any relevant  thoughts and comments greatfully received.

I have recently installed Virtual PC SP1 on a Windows XP Pro SP2 computer
and am trying to create a lab environment.  I have created 3 virtual
machines, but only two of the machines can ping each other.  I am using the
local network option, have assigned static IP's to each virtual ...

My host NIC is a 3Com. I have set my single Virtual PC to
use the 3Com NIC as well through Setting of the Virtual
PC Console. However, when I look check the network
setting within the Virtual PC I see that an Intel NIC has

I'm trying to create a RIS demo for Win2003.
I'm setting this up on my WinXP SP2 machine running VPC 2004 (on a
Dell Latitude D600 1.6 MHz, 1 GB RAM, Broadcom 570X NIC).
I built a Win2003 virtual server (using 256 MB virtual RAM) on VPC

I have installed VPC 2004 on XP/Pro.
After installing the "Sygate" firewall, I became aware of the fact, that
"Virtual Maschine Network Service" (VMNetSrv.sys) is always active (and
transferring data in and out), although VPC itself is not active.

While on holiday my test pc has been updated to SP2 - I've re-installed
Virtual PC and pointed it and my vhd file.  Unfortunately I now get the
following two error messages which prevent me accessing my virtual pc: -
1) Invalid Boot Ini File

I know that the hardware emulated by VPC is fixed, so I'm not too hopeful
here, but is there any way to tell it to emulate a flaky network
connection?
The same sort of thing as Shunra's Cloud (Virtual Network nowadays) --

I have VPC 2004 installed on a Win200pro host.
I created a virtual machine with a win200pro OS onto it than i have
installed the VPC additions.
Now, every timle i boot my virtual machine, it asks me to upgrade or

I have installed VPC + SP1 on a computer (p4 2.8 gh, RAM 1go) and set up a
virtual machine (RAM 256 mo) on a external drive. This is working well.
Now, I have installed VPC + SP1 on a laptop (pentium M 1.4 go, RAM 512 mo)
and I'm trying to start the virtual machine, but I get an ...