I was having problems printing in the guest O/S, and I found a solution by
going into the BIOS of the host O/S and changing the parallel port's Base I/O
Address from  3BC to 378.
However, I was wondering if there is a way to keep the host O/S untouched,

Need some help on this....
Im running windows xp sp 2... i installed microsoft virtual PC 2004 SP1 and
create a new virtual machine using windows 2003 server but it is asking me for
"Reboot and Select proper Boot device

I just installed Quicken 2002 on the vpc.  It seems ok and opened my existing
data file.  I am unable to set up the internet connect for Quicken, the menu
selection does not open the setup window.  
I can't register or upgrade either.

Having created a 5gig fixed-size Virtual disk on a NTFS partition (Fat16/32
has a 2/4gig limit) I ran out of space after installing a disk hungry OS (XP
Pro) and applications (MS Office and Visual Studio 6).
I then converted the fixed-size Virtual Disk to a dynamically expanding ...

Greetings. I am looking for guidance in using a Keyspan USB serial adapter
(model USA-19H) with VPC7.
In the VPC settings I have enabled USB support and selected the Keyspan
adapter. But the Keyspan software in Windows exhibits one of two behaviors:

I just installed vpc 7.0.01 with xp pro on a G5.  I allocated 512 meg of ram
to vpc.
My numeric keyboard is dead.  Is there a setting I need to tamper with?
Thanks in advance!

I have a 2003 standard server and an XP client both running as virtual PCs.
The server does not appear to see the netbios broadcast from the client. It
does see a socket broadcast and my application that uses sockets connects and
transfers files. The application that uses netbios ...

I have a Windows 98 Guest that can access the Internet fully when its
Networking is set to use "Shared networking".
However, if I set it to use the Host NIC, I get an error message when the
system boots that the network card is not configured correctly and I cannot

Hi: I just installed my trial version of VPC. I am following instructions but
can't install the operating system. I created a virtual machine called home
edition. I created a virtual floppy. I hit the start button and it brings up
a black like dos screen and I get an error ...

I am running 2003 server as the host system.  I have recently installed 2003
server on a virtual pc.  It runs fine.  I am trying to install 2000 server as
a virtual pc and I receive the following message:
Setup has determined that your computer's startup hard disk is new or has

I am running VPC 2004 with SP1 on XP Pro SP2 and run Windows 95
version B as a guest OS.  As you may be aware Windows 95 ships with a
very old version of Internet Explorer (v3 I think), so I want to
install a newer version on the VM.  Version 6 of IE is not compatible

Virtual PC SP1 on laptop. Keyboard goes crazy, a single keystroke results in
multiple charachters. 90% of the time double mouse click doesn't work.
Windows clock is all f**ked up it counts forwards and backwards.

I have a couple of problems with a couple of VPCs I am trying to install.
Firstly, I can't get my virtual installation of Win2000 to use the hosts
internet connection.  I have managed to do this with VPCs of Win98 and
WinME. Any ideas? Also, Virtual Machines Additions does not ...

Is VPC SP1 build number 5.3.582.27 ??? I had what appears to be an innocuous
error during install, and just want to verify before I install an XP SP2 box
...

I would like to setup two virtual networks and bridge
them like so:
[VPC WinXP]--wire1--[Bridge VPC]--wire2--[VPC WinXP]
I did the following: