I'm trying to run some old dos games in Virtual PC, specifcally
Bethesda's "Arena" and "Battlespire". There are other websites out
there that give some tips about how to do this using something like
Dosbox but I thought that VPC would be ideal, since I can run win95 or

Just wondering what opinions people have on the following idea.
Rather than giving employees laptops to occasionally work from home, would
it be possible to produce a VPC build that can VPN onto the company network?
What security concerns would there be surrounding this idea?  Is ...

I thought I'd add something back to this forum...
My host PC is set up with My Documents pointing to a network share with a
quota of 300Mb. The problem comes when starting a newly-created VPC, when it
displays a message to do with USER_BY_SURNAME having only 99Mb free disk

I'm trying to get VM Additions installed for VPC 2004.  After capturing
the ISO in Program Files\Microsoft VPC\Additions, I hit enter and just
get this:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device

Hi folks.  Sorry, I'm not your technominded type of person, so if you give a
reply, PLEASE try to make it so us morons can understand it.   ;)
I am running the trial version of VPC2004.
Host:

I recently got a dual core (2Ghz) notebook with 1GB memory and loaded VPC
and image from my old notebook.
I notice the VPC boot up and performance is slower as compare to my previous
IBM notebook (Centrino 1.3Ghz).

When I attempt to install XP Home Edition into a new Virtual PC Machine, it
boots, displays the startup installation screen. I get a fatal error *** STOP
0x0000008E..." - at the point that it attempts to copy files from the DVD, I
believe.  (When I hit ENTER to start the ...

I've got Virtual PC 2004 SP1 installed, with two virtual machines: Windows
2000 SP4 and Fedora Core 4.
Since I've got a Portuguese keyboard, I had to change the Right Alt key
(Virtual PC's "control" key) to Right Control. So far so good, it worked

I am trying to use a USB WAVpedal (for transcription) with Virtual PC but it
won't recognize it.

I wish to make a virtual copy of one our Win2k3 DC to do some testing before
going live.
What is best method for making a copy/backup of a production DC and
deploying it on a VM?  So far, I've used the NT Backup utility to backup the

I have two physical Windows XP machines running Virtual PC with DOS
installed.  I've managed to find Ben's article on using IPX networking on
DOS, and have been able to install and run the IPX drivers on both DOS VPCs.  
I seem to be having difficulty getting the IPX connections ...

My win98 virtual machine can access internet and all other functions but
cannot locate the server when I try to connect to a Physical windows NT 4.0
server.  Any ideas?
Kind Regards

I just moved a virtual machine (windows 2000 Advance Server) (Virtual Server
2005 R2) from my PC to my Laptop. all seems to run fine.
So, the question is, if I install a full confgured Exchange 2003 on win2003
and then move it to a new box, should I have any problems doing this?

Someone told me that Virtual Server is a no-go because it cannot be set up
to AutoBoot the host/guest VM's unattended.
I can't imagine this is the case, anyone care to give me some ammo to throw
back?

On my WinXP box I installed Virtual PC 2004 (VPC). In VPC I run a Windows
2003 server. It's not a domain controller or anything like that. Both the
client and the VPC have a static IP address in the same range. On the WinXP
client I created a HOSTS and an LMHOSTS file to be able ...