I tried to install a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro and once the virtual
machine has rebooted and reached the "installing windows" state, it stops
with an error and tells me that he can't continue with the following error:
Installation Failed: D:\I386\asms. Error Message: the ...

I've been playing with Virtual PC installing old versions of windows (98 and
95). I installed windows 98 without any problems but with windows 95 I
haven't been able to get the internet to work. When I look on system
properties->Device Manager I see that it has a yellow question ...

Is it possbile to Print in Virtual PC? I have Windows Vista in my physical
hard drive and Windows XP in the Virtual Machine.

On my machine, I'm running WinXP Pro and I've installed VPC 2004. Within
VPC I've created a virtual machine and installed Ubuntu 5.10.  I have it
set up and working (video and networking is fine) but I can not get
sound output to work.  I know that VPC emulates a sound blaster 16 ...

will there be some SDK for extending the virtual network capabilities for
application such as a virtual firewall?
the idea behind a virtual firewall is to have the ability to control a
virtrual network traffic rules without having a physical or a virtual

I have installed the VC software and configured the guest O\S to be Windows
2000 SP4. When I try to install the MS updates I recieve the error "Files
required to use Windows Update are no longer registered or installed on your
computer" . I then choose the register or reinstall ...

I am attempting to use Virtual PC to get DOS apps working that don't
work in NTVDM.  However, most of them are at resolutions that do not
conform to the aspect ratio of my monitor.  Therefore, they end up
letterboxed and distorted.  How do I make Virtual PC stretch the image

I'm interested in using Virtual PC for testing and understand, from searching
through older posts in this forum, that I would need 1 + n separate WinXP
licenses: 1 for the host OS and one each for n VMs.
Is this still the case?

Hi Anyone!
I have an old DOS app that only runs on Win98 (DOS window). This app fetches
data from a novell server (pretty quickly) and then crunches that data using
its own local processor. A report that usually takes 20 mins on a straight up

How can I find out if a PC running Win 2k has MS Virtual Machine on it?

Does antivirus / antispyware software on host PC prevent installation of
viruses/spyware in the virtual PC?
For eg.,  if I do a complete scan of my physical hard-drive using McAfee
Antivirus - can it see a virus on the VirtualPC's hard-drive?

i'm using Virtual PC 5.3.582.27 and i built a developer Virtual Machine base
on Windows XP Professional SP2 , VS.NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express
Edition. I encoutered a lot of problemi developing with VS.NET 2005 because
the right shift key is used by Virtual PC to swith to ...

Hi -
I was just wondering...
My XP is taking up my whole HDD - But I want to install Vista on a new
Partition (maybe 3/4of my hdd) - Does VPC allow you to split partitions?

i did insert the os disk and windows start the set up process and when it
comes to the licences agreement it said press f8 iif you agree, esc= i do not
agree, so i press f8 but it not do anything but when i press esc yes it will
closed the set up.  any idea? the windows version ...

I'm trying to install VS.net on 2003 Server(VPC Guest). At different
stages(no pattern) of installation VPC gets closed throwing error. Error
messages does not show much details, only sends error report to MS. I'm using
XP Media Center as VPC Host on Dell Inspiron laptop. Thanx ...