My physical machine (host) is running WinXP SP2.  It is set to automatically
adjust the system clock for daylight savings in my time zone.  I also have
another install of WinXP SP2 as a guest in Virtural PC.  Should the guest OS
be set to automatically adjust for daylight ...

I found http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/vpcfaq/VPCFAQ3-PerformanceMatter.html
in the archives here - which looks like an excellent source.
My set up improves on this.  dual proc with 2 GB RAM & fast RAID 0
(stripping) IDE drive ( 300 GB )

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Date:        4/29/2005 Time:        2:42:00 PM

Environment: Dual proc, 2-4 GB multi-monitors- servers running Win03/SP1 host
and Win03/sp1 guest (with auto updates). So far it looks ideal for VS 2005
Beta dev (using one screen and WTS).
Unfortunately, I’m dyslexic and require copy/paste which apparently isn’t

we have several laptops which we use to manage building and fire systems with.
On an older DOS OS laptop, we can easily and quickly access a Invensys
device using the 9 pin port (comm 1) and a short range modem.
As soon as we upgraded to Xp machines, we could no longer access the

Is there an easy way to add hardware (DVD-ROM) to the Host System (XP Pro) &
then have it show up on my two Virtual PCs (2K & 98) without reinstalling the
entire OS on both Virtual PCs?

Don't hide in a KB the following:
To determine whether the Virtual Machine Additions are installed, view the
Shared Folders icon on the Virtual PC toolbar. If the Shared Folders icon is
not available, the Virtual Machine Additions are not installed. If the Shared

In trying to set up a VM to run some legacy software under Win 95 or 98 (pre
SE) and during the loading of WIN98 I receive the message: "If you have HPFS
or NTFS installed as your hard drive you will need to create an MSDOS boot
partition to set up Windows."  As I am running ...

I am a support technician for a company and have recently began using
Virtual pc 2004 to test software. All pc's are imaged with a base
image. I have been trying to image a virtual hard drive now for almost
a week. Every time I try to do this I get a connection to our imaging

Anyone ever have the soundcard load right when using Server2003 in VPC?  It
always detects as Soundblaster16 but it always has the warning icon in
device manager and doesn't work.

VPC hosted on XP Pro.  I attempt to run the SP1 for VPC and get "Internal
Error 2803" several times before I terminate the update.  Does anybody know
what this is?  What are the ramifications of letting it go?

I have a folder on my host machine that I share with the VPCs. I am finding
that performance is very bad accessing the folder from the VPCs.  I get much
better performance by using a VHD.  I also get "network errors" accessing the
shared folder from the VPCs.  For example, I had ...

I installed Virtual PC on a 1GB WinXP Host System and gave 512 to my VPC. I
has WinXP and Visual Studio 2003, but is really very very slow. I´ve used the
same configuration o another machine and I works really fine. I set up
performance to run Virtual PC at max velocity, is there ...

Am downloading the trial version for virtual PC. My question is, I want to
run 3 instances of w2k server to replicate our test enviroment. I have a 80gb
HD in the PC that I will be installing virtual PC on. Do i need to partition
the disk so it has 3 partitions available, one for ...

Trying to visit VPC Online from the Help menu, I get:
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C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILLA.ORG\FIREFOX\FIREFOX.EXE -url %1
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