it took a few weeks and a bunch of restarting of the installation process but
Gentoo works in a Virtual Machine... And I recommend it -  

I compressed my Virtual Drive (13gig - 6 gig free) after 1st defraging the
host drive and then running Eraser.exe to set .vhd  unused space to zeros.
When the compression completed, the resulting virtual drive was the same size
as the original. I have SP1 installed.

Hi. Newbee here.  Using Virtual PC2004 w/SP1 on an XP Pro w/SP1 Dell GX280. I
created a new virtual hard disk under VPC2004.  I seletect Local only for the
NIC - I want to use an image on our server to pull down on the host virtual
drive. I keep getting an error when I use the ...

I have installed VPC 2004 with SP1 (5.3.582.27) running on Windows 2003
Server (NO sp1) as the Host OS. I installed Windows XP Professional as the VM
OS added all the updates and SP2.
When I try to run the "Install or Update Virtual Machine Additions" the

Is this configuration possible.
I want to run Linux Fedora core minimal setup on Windows 2000 Server Standart, by VPC2004 means. No interaction with desktop is needed once setup is finished. I speculate, that running it on "console" session, with the help of task sheduler would be ...

I understand how to dedicate a NIC to a VM.  However, the internal stack
functions as a switch, and so that NIC sees only broadcasts and packets
directed to itself.
Now if the guest OS assigns an IP address, it all works great.  However for

Hi all... pretty standard setup (bit of a networking weakling here):
- Host is Windows XP running on a Toshiba M200.
- Guest is Windows Server 2003 running IIS and with SourceGear's Dragnet
(demo version).

I've tried everything that I know...I can't seem to download the latest VM
update.  Not sure where to look from here.  I also now seem to have a problem
pulling up certain pages on the web...the page and frames appears, but with
no data.  

I'm trying to find a solution to the problem several people has: my
keyboard is lost every time I change the focus from VPC window to another one.
The only remedy is to save the state of the VPC, shut down Virtual Pc and
restart it.

As part of my study of the 2272 course, I am testing network installation of
Windows XP Pro using virtual PCs. I created a virtual floppy image with the
necessary network components for booting to DOS, and can connect to the
network share on the distributing virtual PC.

I have a virtual drive that is formatted to fat32 for use with RIS within
VPC. I have added the drive as drive #2 using the settings button when the
VPC is off, but when I boot the virtual machine The drive is not available in
my computer. Is there another way of doing this or ...

After installing Fedora Core 3 in workstation mode on a VPC with 370
Mb RAM I get a strange situation on restart:
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

I am using MS Virtual PC 2004 SP1 with a French National ("AZERTY")
keyboard.
I have virtual installs of almost every Windows version, with some
installed in English and in French.

I have just installed Virtual PC 2004 and created virtual win98 machine.  I
have read the network help and it seems to be pretty straight forward but for
some reason I cannot connect to my network.  I have tried the sharing option
in the network settings and I have tried setting ...

Hello,
I've got Windows 95 running in Virtual PC, but I can't get it to recognize
the CD-ROM drive.  I installed Win95 by copying the setup files from the CD
onto the Virtual Hard Disk.  Any ideas?