Does anyone have any idea why this doesn't work:
- Install Virtual PC 2004
- Attach your real floppy drive as the A drive
- Boot any DOS disk (from Windows 98, for example, but I have tried

hey all,
i'm using differencing on one of my vpc and was wondering if there was
anyway to compact it to make sure it's efficient. i know how to precompact
and compact one without differencing. just curious.

I am new to Virtual PC and wish to have a few instances running on my
desktop.  Does that mean that for each instance, I need to install a full OS
and everything?
Thanks,

I've been looking at all the virtual pc information/software and don't
quite understand the scenario's..probably missing some info.
What software/hardware would I need to install to create a system
whereby there is:

(I searched the FAQs and prior posts but did not find this addressed.)
I installed DOS 6.2.2 under VPC 2004 SP1 running on Win2kPro-SP4. Other than
a few hicups with the floppy drive everything seems in place. I have loaded
and run a number of programs from floppies. So far, so ...

I need to buy some new hardware to get decent performance out of virtual
pc, although ive limited experience using it so far.
What I want is a general test/development bed - used for various
scenarios to include dc's, sql, sharepoint & exchange. Mainly for

I install XP via RIS.  The XP image has Virtual PC along with 2 virtual XP
drives and a Win2K3 Server drive.  After the image is put on a target
computer, Virtual PC is there, the VPC files are there, but the XP vhd files
are missing.  I have searched the Internet and books that ...

I have MS Virtual PC with a WinXP host running over AMD 4200+.  Every
3 minutes network connectivity between the host and guest dies for
anywhere from 3 to 18 minutes.  (I've written a program to ping host
to guest, and gather stats on when it loses comms and for how long.)

Trying to create a virtual machine to run vista rc1 on when I turn on the new
virtual machine and click the CD menu, so i can capture the ISO image,
virtual pc stops responding completely.
Can anyone help??

I am having an issue with this vhd. I get it to boot and load and do the
install, but each reboot after that, it launches the bootdisk and nbot the
OS.  I know its something simple I am not doing, but 98 builds seem years ago!

I've googled around, and looked at various websites, and after having
conflicting interests I've arrived here for advice.
I have only one copy of Windows XP Pro, and I would like to install Virtual
PC 2004 (now it is free) to enable to test out shareware applications etc,

Is there a way i can start a VPC at the startup of the host OS? I have an
internet content filter running on my pc for my kids. I want MS VPC to
startup with my OS startup, and then run my content filter. Just in case im
not home, and it reboots for some reason (Windos update, ...

I just bought an Lenovo ThinkPad T60 with Centrino Duo with 1 GB RAM. The
main reason why I bought it was to improve the speed of my virtual machines.
How ever the virtual machines start very slow, much slower as on my three
year old T40 with also 1 GB RAM. Also the host system ...

I noticed that when I use network monitor or any sniffer on the guest OS, it
is not capturing traffic on the a hub connected LAN that include the Host OS.
Moreover, traffic from Host OS to any other PC is not captured. I think this
is related to The Virtual Machine Network ...

My Alt gr key wont work in VPC, even when I change the host key in file menu
to be left Win Key. I also tried ctrl + alt, but that wont work either.