I plan to set up a new development system designed to host 3 VM guests
running XP Pro.  This will be a new machine and I have a sense that a Vista
host would be more robust than an XP host in terms of larger memory capacity,
resource management, etc.  Am I wrong?  Does Vista have ...

I am really interested in converting, or burning, my vhd file to a DVD and
use GHOST or something else to write back to another PC. In Virtual PC, i can
set all options I want and test everything. Now I am done and want to use the
"hard drive" on a real computer. How to ...

I have noted a strange behaviour in VPC:
Sometrimes when I start a guest (XP-Pro) the initial boot screen is
completely black with no text and then after a while the Windows XP
startup screen appears with the progress bar.

I was wondering if there was anyway to have a VM automatically restart after
the Host machine restarts (i.e. if the host machine reboots, I would like the
guest machine to restart as well). I noticed there were some options in
Virtual Server, but I havnt seen anyting for Virtual ...

Can I install the same copy of XP on the same computer , as a VPC.
Will the activation go through?

I read that using the Complete PC Backup feature in Vista you can
create an .vhd that can be mounted in a Virtual PC 2007 virtual
machine. This made me think that I might be able to clone my current
system within a virtual machine so that I could test install

I want to use Virtual PC.
I downloaded it and installed it.
I created a new m/c using the wizard. But, how do I install the guest OS?
When I started the machine it is doing something but does not seem to go

As a developer I have installed Virtual PC as Microsoft suggest its a better
solution than multi booting one PC.
I have a problem connecting to an SQL database on the host.
I can use and test Applications if I install SQL Server 2005 Express in each