I'm running WinXP SP2 on Virtual PC SP1, and my DVD RW shows up as a generic
"MS C/DVD-ROM".  Consequently, my DVD burning software won't even let me try
to write to it.  However, my host OS which is the same version of XP
correctly reports the drive in the Device Manager as a ...

Hello World,
I am a new user of Virtual PC 2004
I am using : Virtual PC 5.3.582.27
on Window XP Professionnel

We all know that VPC/VS and even VMWare have their associated utilities to
shrink and optimize a Virtual Machine.
Steps to optimize and shrink a virtual machine:
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I am trying to install Linux SUSE 10, 9.3 and process of loading 65MB
ramdisk image takes above 5-7 minuts, whole installation of system takes over
2 hours per 1 cdrom. Does anybody know how to speedup cdrom access? My
hardware: Acer Travelmate8104, 2 GHz P-centrino, 1 GB ram and ...

Dear Group,
I have successfully launched Win PE on Virtual PC. I read through Win PE
documentation that it supports subset of Win 32 API's. I was just wondering
if there are any specific SDK's or Developent Environment available for

I used Virtual PC 2004 for some time now mainly to simulate Win NT 4 and Win
2k3 Server systems for developing purposes. 2 days ago I wanted to set up a
new VM running Win XP Pro with SP2. I got a bootable ISO image with SP2
included from MSDNAA which I mounted as a CD drive in ...

I am trying to hook up a debugger to a guest OS. I have configured the COM1
port of the guest OS to connect to a named pipe ( \\.\pipe\mypipe ), and
have added a /debugport=com1 to the guest OS's boot.ini file. On the host
machine, I have the debugging tools installed, and have ...

Does it make any sense to run checkdisk and defrag inside the guest OS, or
should we only run these utilities in the host OS? I'm not sure if the guest
OS would have access to the physical disk outside of its allocated space, so
I'm wondering what happens if you run checkdisk or ...

Hi,
3 questions if I may... (I have XP Pro, I've managed to get DOS 6.22
installed).
I have an old DOS application that I'd like to run.... I have a copy of the

I am installling Virtual PC 2004 on my Windows 2003 server, when I try to
launch the app I get the above message.
During the install, It never prompts me to enter any key, what am I doing
wrong

A previous comment was that if you plan to use the vhd file on a different
computer a new vmc file should be created in that computer.  The reason being
that the settings and configuration for the computer were kept in the vmc
file.  (I hope that I got that correct).  Anyway.

I'm trying to access my host PC web server (XP Pro) from my virtual PC
(Server 2003). I have networking set up in that I can ping and access shares
in both directions with no problems. My host PC cabn also access my virtual
PC web server. I just can't get access to the web server ...

Intel Delivers New Era For Virtualization
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 14, 2005 - Delivering the industry's first
hardware virtualization support for desktop PCs, Intel Corporation debuted
new processors today that offer businesses improved manageability and

I just got the trial version of VPC last night. My son wanted to see
what Rebel Assault looked like - LOL!  I spent hours trying to get the
sound to work. Turns out, I needed to select DMA channel 5 in the game
setup screen. Why was it not channel 1???

I've installed Virtual PC 2004 on my laptop which is running XP Pro.
When I install a Virtual Drive for 98 or 2K Pro It wont see my USB or PCMCIA sockets, If I install 2K Pro on the drive without Virtual PC its fine !!!
Regards
Mark