I have been using VM for several years and have just experienced a problem
with it. When I open with the MVPC icon, the first VM begins and loads the
first VM on the list before I choose it. After a few seconds my host (XP Pro)
completly locks. I can stop the load it if I am ...

Currently I'm querying "Select Manufacturer from Win32_ComputerSystem" on
one of my guest images and it always returns "Microsoft Corporation", for my
testing I would like to temporarily or permanently change it to another
manufacture like "Toshiba", "HP", "IBM", or "Compaq".

I have built a domain out of two servers (running server2003 sp1) and
two xp clients.  On my DC I have one nic designated.  On one server and
the two workstations, I have two nics designated (the first one being
NAT and the second being the physical card of the computer.)  I am

I've been using Intel for so long that I ignored any posts about AMD.
But now I have an AMD Turion processor in a new PC of mine.  Is there
anything I need to be aware of to get VirtualPC to work correctly and
at full speed?  Is it compatible, or agnostic to Cool 'N Quiet or

We're trying to run a legacy appliation that uses Phar Lap's 286 DOS
extender.  The application will throw an exception 14 immediately on startup,
and dies with a register dump.  Our application does not do this under either
VMware for DOSbox.

Hi, Is anyon else getting "out of memory" issues when using office 4.2 in
windows 3.11.  I know its not the build as its a exact copy of "physical"
build which works fine.  I have the latest virtual pc service pack on there
but there is still problems.  Anyone have any ...

Does anyone know if it is possible for me to create a virtual machine
that is a copy or clone of an existing non-virtual machine?  Complete
with already installed apps and configuration settings?   I know I'd
have to change some things like eth card settings and maybe sound but I

If anyone can help, this is killing me. I have Windows Server 2003 running on
a virtual machine with SQL Server 2000 installed and running. Can access the
database from Enterprise Manager (EM) on the virtual machine, but can't
connect from EM on the host machine.

help appreciated...

I've been using VPC for a few weeks now, no problems, XP pro host, 2000 guest.
I recently upgraded my graphics card to a nvidia fx 5220, it was just an old
onboard Intel extreme. When trying to upgrade to driver on the guest, I
noticed that the existing driver was a s3 trio (dont ...

I installed SuSe Linux 10.0 on Virtual PC 2004 en everything is working fine
except the sound card.
I did some research on the internet and found out that the card that virtual
PC should emulate is the SB16. However Linux could not install the driver

Background:
- Software test lab with approximately eight test machines - all identical.
- Current system is to use Ghost images to restore PC's to different test
configurations.

Anybody getting it to work?
I've tried it several times.  It keeps failing with the product key screen.  
I get a setup.exe app error: "instruction at 0x1fee7a6d referenced memory at
0x0315bd0f  (this varies) .... the required data was not placed in memory

I just came across this term and while I know what VMWare is and what
it is good for, I am not sure I understand the concept of "application
virtualization". Isn't the OS (be it Windows 2K/XP or UNIX) already
taking care of the virtualization? If so, why this new type of

Is it possable to create VHD files from acronis backup images?
TIA
Josh