Is there a utility that would allow me to salvage data from the Vhd?
All was working perfect. I saved the VM state to speed up access, after my
laptop boots I need to wait for the vm to boot it could be upto 10 min. On
the following day when I was supposed to demo CAD files I ...

I fired up the lastest copy of Vista (5536) today in anticipation of testing
how well Virtual PC runs on it. (not vista in a virtual pc, but rather vista
being the HOST os and virtual PC running on vista).  I was a little
disappointed when I installed Virtual PC and it reported ...

I have tried running SUN Solaris 10 2006-06 in VPC.
It always halts at CPU detection ( kernel loaded with verbose flag to see
halting point ).
Has anyone been able to get Soalris 10 ( the latest version ) to run under

Stumbled on this newsgroup by sheer luck. Looking to tap into the the
collective know how of the people here.
I installed VPC and setup my first Virtual PC yesterday. The guest OS is Win
XP Pro SP2. For some reason the sound is really horrible.

I am running Virtual PC on a IBM Thinkpad laptop and I am having problems
with the LPT-port. There is a printerport on the laptop which I use with a
printer and it works fine. But when I try to set the physicalport for LPT1 in
the settings of a virtual PC the list of available ...

On the homepage http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
there is a statement "Virtual PC Is Now Free!", with link to
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx
from there follwoing the link

As VMware Server goes free, we need to know if we can use this product for
testing under business environment.
Say we want to use this product for business purposes, is that legal to use
VMware Server in our company?

Would it be possible to write an application that would package your existing
OS Environment into a Virtual PC?
For example:
As we all know Windows upgrades rarely work.  When they do work something

I have installed Virtual PC now I am setting up a Virtual Machine.
selected new which brings up the Virtual Machine Wizard.
Selected the option to Create a Virtual Machine
Created a name and location (basically the default)

Can you run Mac OS X with windows on a windows based PC? If not with this
software, then what can I use?

I've just installed Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 in my VM world.
Windows 2000 downloads all necessary updates but Windows 98SE fails.
Any one got any ideas how I update the virtual 98SE, before it sails off
into the sunset forever?

For several weeks now I'm using VPC. Im using it for programming Java and
not messing up my whole original system with databases connectors etc.
It works very fine but for some task the VPC is a little to slow.
Is it possible to use the vhd (virtual harddisk) on the host computer? ...

Hello people,
Since I upgraded my Virtual PC 2004 to SP1, this has become pretty unstable.
I have an environment with some 15 different Virtual disks, containing W98, W
XP, W 2003 and even W MCP. They all ran smoothly under my previous Virtual PC

I downloaded VPC soon after it was released for free. I installed it
recently, and just installed the Laptop hotfix that is present in a
sub-folder.
I just downloaded and attempted to install VPC 2004 SP1, but received an

I know the above is not supported but was thinking this would be the best
place to find someone with even a smidgen of experience in the matter - if I
am wrong please point me in the right direction as I cant find any groups on
betanews.microsoft.com at all relevant.