Was happy to see MS release VM Additions for Linux and just
tried them out in VPC 2004.
It seems to work OK except for one thing... The mouse cursor
gets kind of screwed up in Fedora Core 4 when running X. I

We have been running several years with Ghost as our means of creating
different host scenarios for our software testing. To do this I have
assigned a PC with a disk partitioned into two partitions where one is
formatted as FAT32 and holds all the Ghost images and the other

Hello people,
i had downoladed vpc and installed ms dos 6.22
I want turn back in time and play some good old games, especially ufo.
I want try use game wizard. But if i run it, it hangs everytime.

I have a desktop PC which I use for development, and a laptop. I want to
capture a physical image of the development PC and run it in the Virtual PC
on the laptop. A quick scan through the forum suggests that this will not be
possible due to driver and hardware differences ...

I just installed Virtual PC 2004 SP1 on my host machine (Win2000 Pro).
Upon opening my guest machine (which had LPT1 set to the value
"Physical LPT1") I received a popup with the following message:
"There was an error trying to open the following parallel port on your

Anyone know if its possible to connect multple mice, keyboards and
video cards to a single pc, so that it can be shared by many users in
an internet cafe?
Thanks

After I install DOS 6.22, I restarted without the boot floppy. When I try to
access my virtual D-Drive, it said invalid drive specification, but if I use
the floppy, it comes up ok. Can anyone tell me how I can install Windows 3.11
without it becomming dependant on the disk?

I am trying to install windows 2000 server on VPC04, the installation gets to
the copying files and components point in the gui part of setup and when it
completes the process vpc just restarts and the setup begins all over again.  
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to ...

I upgraded to R2 recently in my VPC 2004.  The mouse and shared folders
stopped working, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the additions.  Upon
reinstalling the mouse is working now (interactive mouse) but the shared
folders still do not work and I am getting a message about the ...

I know the minimum requirements for vpc are listed on the info page,
however, I would like to know what would be a good specification for a
desktop pc running xp pro as a platform to host vpc images.
My current system is a p4, single hyperthreading cpu, 2.8 ghz system with

How to copy files to Dos Virtul Machine from Winxp. Is there any need to
install any additions
Thanks
Ishaq

I have set up a DOS 6.22 VM under MS VPC 2004 to run an old Alpha Four
database program which is incompatible with Windows XP. The program
itself seems to be working OK, but I can't figure out how to get a
report to print.

I have observed, that it sometimes is possible to resize the desktop of the
VP by dragging the corner of the window of the VP.
Other times I can only make the window smaller, but then scroll bares
appears because the desktop of the VP is not resized.

How to connect 2 serial ports - COM1, COM2
in Virtual PC 2004
Thank you.
Volodia

I have VPC 2004 running on my Thinkpad. Whenever I try to shutdown the
system goes through the process of saving the VPC state and then seems
to just sit there. I have to request the shutdown or restart a second
time before it continues and actually shuts down. I have the