We cannot communicate with a PLC controller through the COM1 port when using
VPC with the host being Windows 2000 and the Virtual PC being Windows 98.  
The hour glass appears then it times out.   Any ideas?

For the fourth time in a week, when Virtual PC 2004 is running and I move a  
window on my physical drive, the physical drive locks up and
I have to shut off my machine.  Each time, the virual machine is the window
directly behind the window I am moving.  There are no

I have two questions:
1.
Can I install Win98 or Linux (guest operating system) if image-file is keep
inside a

In order to create multiple machines in VPC I start with a basic OS
installation and then copy the files and rename to create more machines. I
rename the "machinename" in the OS and alter the SID with Ghost.  However
the MAC address of the Nic is the same and so the virtual machies ...

I have installed Ubuntu/linux on a VPC disk and every thing proceeds fine  
until I get to the final graphic screen where it tries to set the resolution
to 1600x600x8 and that is completely unreadable.  I snipped the code out of
the unbutu.vmc file as follows:

I'm running W2K with 1GB.  I've created a virtual machine with 512MB.  I
installed Rockwell software RSLogix 500.  When I try to start the application
I get an error that states:  "Rs500.exe has generated errors and will be
closed by windows.  You will need to restart the program ...

Ok,  so this feature for Display auto-resizing is like the enegerizer bunny,  
nothing we do will stop this feature.
Thinking that there was a problem did a uninstall / reinstall of VPC 2004
and the problem still occurs.  When launching VPC it changes the display to

I have a virtual pc image that was created on one machine.  I moved the
files to another machine to run it there and now whenever Windows Server
2003 begins to boot I get the initial boot up screen where it shows memory
and bios information, then the Windows 2003 server splash ...

I bought the VPC version that does not include the OS.  I used my own
WinXP disk, but it was an upgrade disk requiring an installed OS to
start.  Since all I had on hand was an NT disk, I created an NT
partition and installed NT with sp6 (The upgrade disk required NT's

I have seen in many other threads on this forum questions/comments
surrounding DVD image support (or lack there of) in Virtual PC. Barring the
technical reasons that may or may not make sense, why on earth does this
product not support DVD devices themselves.

Is the hypervisor technology that Microsoft announced today would be
part of Longhorn going to be a seperate deal from Virtual PC?  Or is it
a complementary technology?

Okay I have heard this term and am stumped - where do I get this or how do I
get this setup. Forgive me for such a simple and probably dumb question. Your
help is greatly appreciated.
John Parish

Ist it possible to hide a network device, so that the host can't use the
device, but the virtual machine has the possibility to use the network device.
It's important that the host machine can't use that device, caused of the
group policies.

SkI'm a software developer.  I'm tired of living on my Dell Latitude laptop
(even the expensive ones are dog slow compared to affordable desktops), but I
need to travel now and then with my entire desktop. I'm thinking (as Fred
Langa recently suggested to me) that I run VPC on a ...

Hi All,  This is probably a common question, but is it possible to reduce the
size of an image to roughly the true size of the files installed.
Basically i want to reduce the size of an image so that it will fit onto
dvd, but no matter what i try, "clean ups, delete temp files, ...