Thanks for the help so far, it's been good advice. Is there a way to get the
host hard drive to see the VPc's hard drive? If I scan files into my VPc it
would be nice if I could copy them to my host file system.

I am new to both VPC and VS 2005.
I find that the option for assigning NAT to a Virtual
Machine is provided by VPC but not for VS 2005.
I would like to know in what circumstances will we make

I have installed Windows 2003 Server on a Virtual Machine using a ISO image
(my company gives us only the ISO image and No CD) Now I am trying to install
IIS and it is asking me the path where convlog.exe resides. I did a search on
VM and unable to find the file. I don’t have a ...

Trying to run Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Express in the guest...
Host:  XP Pro   1.25 MB RAM (disk 1)
Guest: WS2003 256 MB RAM (disk 2)
The guest reports 256 MB RAM but the settings are grayed out.

If NAT is used by the guest to access internet, is all traffic then going
through the host firewall? If so, is it unnecessary to have a firewall in
the guest as well?
TIA

I have a base VHD of 2003 Server Standard with no updates or patches.  I
created a new virtual machine using a differential VHD of the base VHD and
installed SP1 and other patches and updates.  The differential VHD is now
about the same size as the original which kind of defeats ...

I have created a new VPC Drive but I can't get my OS cd (Windows ME) to be
recognized. The VPC windows keeps giving me the message to "Reboot and
select proper boot device" Under CD I have the proper drive selected, if I
tell it to eject the CD, the correct CD door opens. As I push ...

Let me clarify -- I just installed SP1 on an XP Pro SP2 host machine (a
laptop) where I already had a virtual pc running Linux (Red Hat 7.2).
Everything works after the upgrade, and the overall VPC performance seems to
be noticably faster, which is good!

I am using Virtual PC (5.3.582.27) on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (SP1). I
know that OS is "unsupported" for VPC. Could this be the reason that I cannot
connect the serial ports between two VPC machines via the same named pipe?
For more detail: I have two VPC machines. ...

I'm looking for a white paper that will help me build a virtual test lab with
a DC, SMS 2003 Server, a MOM 2005 server and eventually an XP client.  The
host OS is XP SP2 and everything else will be 2003 Advanced server.

I have installed all of these OS as a guest and updated all service packs
and hot fixes.  Before I begin loading different apps on these guests, I
plan on making a copy of the VPC files for backup purposes and a quick
recovery method in case of a re-install.

First of all, sorry if this has been answered already.  I've checked the
'net and searched this newsgroup, and couldn't find anything...
Anyway, Virtual PC won't install on Windows XP x64.  I notice that x64 isn't
a supported OS.

We are having a very annoying problem....
We have 10 Dell D505 notebooks, all with 2Gb of memory and running Windows
XP Pro SP2 + all the latest Microsoft patches.
Each notebook has Virtual PC 2004 (V5.3.582.27) and Cisco's VPN Client

I've installed Virtual PC on my PC. I cannot access the CD drive via virtual PC
This is what happens:
1. I insert the CD in the CD-Drive.
2. The "Use Physical Drive E:" menu item, which was greyed out before, now

If I want to backup a base XP image with all the patches do I just save the
.vmc and .vhd files for that VM and copy it back to the My Virtual Machines
folder later?
I want to do this for an XP VM I'll be using for betas and browsing the web