I would like to set up a vm as a proxy server or a router,  force host
internet connection to this vm and test some software. Currently I have
Virtual PC 2004 with sp1 installed on Windows XP Pro host. I have a physical
nic and a Loopback adaptor installed on the host.

I use VMs to mmaintain heterogenous development environments. So I have
three copies of XP installed in virtual machines, but I only run one at a
time. This doesn't count backups. I've been looking for something
authoritive on licensing and had no luck. All the stuff I've found ...

I gather that it is possible to install OS/2 Warp 4 into Virtual PC. For
example the instructions at
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/01/11/350875.aspx
describe how to do it. However, it doesn't work for me. The system boots

Hello,
I have a few IBM ThinkPad T41's and T42's deployed with Virtual PC, and they
work fine for a few days.  After that, they would get a blue screen upon boot
up with the message "STOP: c0000221 {Bad Image Checksum} The image

Presently I dual boot between Windows XP  and Windows 2000 server. I use
Windows XP for everyday computing (internet browsing, email, etc.). I boot to
Windows 2000 Server on occasion to access some work related applications that
only run on Windows 2000 Server. Are there any ...

Just received new maching with Windows Media Center and a Pentium D.  Was
using VP 5.1 on my old comouter fine but when trying to open on new machine i
receive a message saying "Virtual PC is incompatible with PAE mode.  This
version of VP can not be run with PAE mode enabled on ...

This has happened to both me and a co-worker.  Host is XP SP2, guest is
Win2000 SP4.  The additions are installed, but the resizing and mouse release
features are not working.  The settings page says these will take effect when
the additions are installed.  The virtual folder ...

When i try to install XP on my virtual PC it wants to format my hard drive in
order to do this. I have sed up a partiton on my hard drive to format that
instead but htis did not work. It still wanted to format my hard drive. Is
there a way to get round this?

I am trying to understand the impact of storing my Virtual Drives on a
Network share.
We are a Microsoft Training Environment.  I would like to setup Parent Disks
on a Network Share and then have the students use Diff Disks for their files.

I have a XP client which I logon with cached credentials at home. I connect
to the Internent thru my broadband connection (wi-fi or built in network
card).
I then start my VPN connection (Microsoft ) to the corporate network.

is there any way of scripting events to occur on the close of a virtual
machine?
i'd like to be able to run a virtual machine and have it appear to a novice
user that the virtual PC is all that there is available... i'm not too

Install the Solaris 10-GA under VPC 2004 - using the NAT network that served
me well under 3 other Linuxes + Win XP - the install does detect VPC offers a
DEC21140-ish interface and tries to use the dnet0 interface... but to no
avail: read some rumors on ze net about this Solaris ...

I'm trying to install Mandriva Linux 2006 powerpack from DVD, but the install
fails with "Fatal error finishing initialization". The logs report errors
trying to read block 8??????? of 4??????? from the "CD".
The DVD has verified OK with and MD5 sum. I'm guessing there is a ...

I'm interested to know what firewall / AV software people use on their VPCs.
Ideally, I'm looking for a solution which doesn't cost the earth and works
across all the 32-bit versions of Windows.
Mark

Just installed my first VPC instance, but cannot get networking to work.
From the guest I'm using the host's adapter, and the adapter is intialized
fine with config from DHCP - but from the guest I cannot ping anything on
the network. From the host I can ping the guest.