The other day I asked about duplicating VPC's for the purpose of
creating different machines for different purposes.  (i.e.  having one VPC
for daily net surfing mail etc., having another for say programming testing,
and lets say another for productivity tasks involving ...

I don't even know if this can go into this forum, but I figured I'd post it.
No matter what I do, Vista (Beta 1, received @ the last MSDN "meeting" thing
I attended) will not install "well" under VPC.. I get a 16 color backdrop,
very slow moving, and when I try to install VPC ...

I've been doing quite a bit of troubleshooting and have come across a
serious problem with running Virtual PC on laptops with the Pentium M
chipset.
The syptom is that the Virtual PC will lock for two or three seconds

if I want to share a physical drive between the gost and guest I have 2
options:
a vhd that is linked to a physical drive or sharing a folder/drive between
the host and guest.

hello world
I m have some problem with virtual PC 2004 instalation on Windows Xp Sp2
When I run the Setup.exe I have this message :
"1: The InstallScript engine is missing from this machine. If Avaible,

We would like to Ghost or image our machines to file or INTO a VDK file.
Can MS or is MS gointo come up with a simplified tool to convert this into a
Virtual Server/PC compatible format?
I know about the convuluted method of setting up ADS and more - but that's

Hope you can help.... I'm having problems printing via LPT1, VPC is set up
with Dos 6.22 all bar printing works fine, HP710C printer using LPT1 setup
using the Direct method. what is confusing is I have installed Win 3.1 and
the printer works? but it will not work in DOS?

Hi at all !
Im using Virtual PC 2004 with SP1 and i have Problems installing a OS. So
thats my problem :
-) i made a new VPC - called WIN95

Is there anyway of estimating the actual hard drive space consumed by each
500 MB FAT16 Windows 95 partition I want to create to replicate an old
Win95 box to be retired.  I see it says 500MB minimum needed for Windows
95 clients running in VPC, but that presumably is some baseline ...

 I have a AMD 64 athlon x2 processor computer and i am trying to install
windows xp professional X64 edition  on virtual pc. But i got the error
message says that attempting to load an x64 operating system. However this
cpu is not compatible with x64 mode. setup cannot continue. ...

I installed Windows on a VPC instance, and added all the latest updates and
SP's, plus Adobe Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, it's a fresh, clean, instance. I
then copied the file onto a DVD for sharing with co-workers. (To get the
obvious question out of the way, we are legal. ...

Can someone tell me is it possible to use a dongle with VP2004?
If so, how? I've tried but the software don't see the dongle thats connected
on the lpt1 port.
Kind regards,

Is it possible clone an existing installation of an OS like Win95 onto a
virtual PC, or is it necessary to reinstall everything from scratch?  I can't
tell from the online docs I've pursued so far.
I want to retire my existing Windows 95 box, but would rather not have to

Can Server 2000 be loaded onto a machine (Windows WP Pro) running Virtual PC?
I would like to use this as a learning tool for future MCSE exams.

I am considering buying a Palm LifeDrive and have used Virtual PC 5 with
Windows 98 SE and with Mac OS 10.2.8 and have never had luck synchronizing my
m505.  I wanted to know if anyone had experience using the Life Drive in
Drive Mode and selecting it as a shard folder on Virtual ...