I wan to know how I can setup win 98 se in virtual pc and have it install all
the OS files on a physical hard drive? I am then going to put the hard drive
into a computer to then use win 98 se.

accessing files on vm hard disk from host
How can I open the vhd from my host machine and open a folder or a file?
dennist685

My computer has 256M RAM.
I create a Virtual PC with WinXP as O/S and the recommended 128M.
When I start the Virtual PC, I get error message "The virtual machine could
not be started because there was not enough memory available on the host.".

I am thinking about buying a G5 Imac and Virtual PC 7. My current computer
is a Pentium 111 (450mhz) with 512 meg Ram ,running Windows XP Pro. The Guy
in the Mac shop said Virtual PC only runs very slowly like the speed of a
Pentium 11. Is that so?? and would buying 1 GIG of ram  ...

Mini newsgroup FAQ for the week of 3/20/2005
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1.. Where can I find more information on Virtual PC?

When I try to install OS/2 Warp 4 I get a trap #000d error
Any help would be appreciated!

As a learning project I want to get a web browser working in a DOS
guest. I am thinking that DR DOS or DOS 7.1 would be good DOS
installations. And I have downloaded the Arachne web browser. But
Arachne requires a "packet driver" to work with a LAN. I haven't been

I installed Windows for workgroups but am having a problem getting the DOS
additions to work. Does someone have a sample config.sys, and autoexec.bat
file handy. It's been so long since I played with these files my brain has
rusted I think. I have DOS 6.2 installed on the same VPC ...

I'm starting to look at performance of my VMs now that I got a good handle
on this wonderful product.
Has anyone done some performance testing on SATA Raid 0 drives vs stand
alone drives?

Can I install a NT4 SP6 PDC and the upgrade to Windows 2003 DC?
When I try this I receive an error message after the first rebbot saying
that the setup program cannot check C: drive and that this is likely a cd
problem or too low memory, but I have 217MB RAM to this session and I ...

I need to use Virtual PC 2004 to run an OS/2 session for development
purposes. I need to do this on my laptop and now I am facing this
problem:
In order to install the OS/2 Warp 4 system I need to let the virtual

Has anyone tried to slipstream the VPC 2004 additions into a Windows 2000 or
Windows XP setup so they will already be included in the setup?

I am trying to create an NT 4 WS virtual PC. I have successfully created the
virtual machine, set memory to 128MB of RAM and created a virtual hard disk
for NT4. The problem comes when I install NT4. The install starts as it
should until it gets to the creation of the partition. ...

I have the latest version of virtual pc plus sp1, the program i need to run
requires a 3d video card, but all it is seeing in the windows 98 window is
the s3 trio, does anyone know of a way to make it see my video card or an
updated driver for a virtual video card maybe?

I'm on a indutrial strength firewall right now but plugged in SP2 just to see
how it does?