I recently installed SuSE 9.1 as a guest O/S under Virtual PC 2004.
The host O/S is Win XP Pro. Today when I booted my PC I saw the SuSE
welcome screen and Linux boot countdown. Hitting enter or waiting
starts Win XP, the host O/S.

i am running msdos virtual machines
i know nothing about directx but it has been related to msvpc needing it.
some questions come to mind concerning directx
1.  what version of directx do i need to running, i hate upating anything i

My Virtual PC host computer is connected to netework with a firewall to the
intenet side. We have virus checkers running (automatically updated every
day) and the machine is patched to the latest state. When I run Virtual
Machines using this host, are the virtual machines ...

I'm interested to know if this is possible?
Can i take a copy of the virtual disk and config file, rename them, open the
config file and modify the virtual drive loction in order to keep a standard
version i can use for new instances?

I am unable to install Windows 98. I downloaded the Windows 98 ISO image
from MSDN. I created a new Windows 98 virtual machine. I start the virtual
machine and it tells me
Reboot and select proper Boot device

I would like to know if it is possible to put Virtual Machines on an
external hard drive with Firewire 400, and run them from this disk. I think
it is possible but my question is: will it be efficient (not too slow)?
Thanks

I GOING TO PASS ALONG SOME FINDINGS  msdos lan speedups
I AM RUNNING  MSVPC AND HAVING MSDOS GUEST
i had been using new newtwork drivers on my host os which was WIN2K  with
realtek nic card 8139 , on motherboard  nic card.

Well this is going to b pretty generic ..So i excuse myself right now..
I notice (Not by bencmark but by being a normal user) that VPC is pretty
good at using RAM (so hit in this area is genrally very nominal) .
Disk Reads and specially writes are not so good (Am I right) ...

I've installed MS Virtual PC 2004 onto my machine.  I then setup a web and
FTP server in the Virtual PC.  I have an external firewall and using its port
forwarding capabilities, forwarded ports 80 and 21 to the IP address of the
Web/FTP server running within virtual PC.