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Cannot get Virtual PC to install on my machine
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I ran the tool to check that hardware virtualization is enabled, and it is (i7-2600).
I ran the proper version of the Virtual PC download (Windows 7 Professional ...
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How do I get started with Virtual PC on Windows 7 Pro?
I would like to set up a Virtual PC VM on my Windows 7 Pro host machine. On the Microsoft VPC page I chose to download only VPC, not the damned XP Mode poster child, and I got to download the file ...
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How can I find out the memory usage of a Virtual PC VM through the host?
If I start a VM using Virtual PC then Task Manager does not show the memory usage of the VM. For example, right now I have a Windows 7 VM running. I have:
VMWindow.exe 60MB RAM
vpc.exe 24MB ...
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Where does the Filezila and two user accounts come from?
Good day to you all.
I suspect, with almost undeniable certainty, that the VirtualXP is at fault.
For the past 6 months--surely longer--I have been coming back to my office to find that there are ...
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I can't connect to internet until turn on Windows Virtual PC
I'm using Windows virtual PC to test IE6 with Windows 7. It is very convenient and it worked well.
From about a week ago, I couldn't connect to internet after reboot. I managed to use internet after ...
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How do I convert a physical (non-windows) disk to a VHD?
I have a physical disk from a dead machine which used to run Linux. I am trying to recover files I had there (shared with Samba). I want to convert the disk to a VHD and run it in a VM so that I can ...
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How to force shut down a hibernated Virtual PC?
How do i shut down a hibernated Virtual PC?
i have a virtual machine (Windows 7 XP Mode) that is hibernated:
i would like to shut this virtual machine down.
The help has a link that explains ...
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Is there a way to run the Microsoft browser VMs on VirtualBox?
I do a lot of web development on Linux and Mac, and I'm also a fan of VirtualBox.
Microsoft has available for download various browser images for testing, but they require VirtualPC to run:
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Best Practice for backing up a configured Virtual PC
I would like to backup my current configured VM, the one I"m now using for Development, and would like to hear a few suggestions concerning the options available to me.
I recently started using a ...
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Why can't Virtual PC attach a VHD?
It seems that Disk2VHD captured an entire HD rather than the boot partition (232GB versus 125GB)
I am hoping to bring up an image of my XP Pro box inside Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as a Virtual PC. ...
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Parent disk for a windows xp mode vhd is in wrong place. How can I fix it?
I've got a "Windows XP Mode" virtual pc that points to the wrong location for the parent disk.
How you get to this position:
1: Create a new WinXP mode virtual pc.
2: It works fne
3: Reboot the ...
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how much RAM does a hibernated virtual PC consume, if any?
If a Windows 7 Virtual PC (guest OS instance) is allocated a specific amount of RAM, let's say 2GB, is most or all of that RAM released whenever the virtual pc is hibernated?
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Convert Windows XP x32 physical machine to guest virtual machine [closed]
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Disk2vhd,convert my PC to Hyper-V Virtual Machine
I've just bought a machine running Windows 7 x64 Professional. I want to use this to run my old XP x32 installation as ...
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Ubuntu inside Windows 7 as a “virtual PC”?
I found this guide which describes how to create a dual-boot Windows 7 / Ubuntu system.
Is it possible to install Ubuntu as a "Virtual PC" inside Windows 7 (i.e. without using VMware or VirtualBox)? ...
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How to migrate a Microsoft Virtual PC VM to a physical Disk?
Most information I see is about migrating physical machines to VMs. I'm looking to do the opposite: take a VM in Microsoft Virtual PC and migrate it to a physical computer.
Judging from this ...
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How to have Windows XP virtual machine ready to use quickly whenever it is needed?
It used to be that I download .vhd images from Microsoft, and then use it for 2, 3 months before it expires: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 But it is quite troublesome ...
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Where to place Virtual PC .vmc and .vhd files?
A colleague passed me a Virtual PC machine that consists of two files, a .vmc and a .vhd, where shall I put them, directly in the "My Virtual Machines" folder, or is there another location?
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Allow writing of virtual CD/DVD in Virtual PC or Virtual Box to make it Virtual CD-RW/DVD-RW
May I know how to allow writing of data into a Virtual CD/DVD in Virtual PC or Virtual Box? Currently, if we mount a ISO file as a Virtual CD/DVD, we can only read it, and it cannot "behave" like a ...
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Program to create a virtual operating system [closed]
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What virtualization software to use?
I am looking for a program so I can install Windows 7 Pro on my machine, but in a virtual environment. What program should I ...
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How to run Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7 64 bits
I have a virtual server client, which is Windows Server 2008.
I have run it using Virtual PC 2007. Now I am on Windows 7, how can I use the Windows Virtual PC to run it?
Thank you.
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How to seamlessy run 16-bit Software in Windows7 XP Mode Virtual PC that doesn't “Install”
OK, so here's my situation:
I'm running a new Windows-7 64-bit PC, but I have to run some old 16-bit work database software on it.
So I've set up Virtual PC XP Mode in general and that is fine in ...
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Can the Microsoft Virtual PC .vhd be “activated” instead of expiring?
I usually use the Virtual PC .vhd from http://www.Microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 together with Windows 7's Virtual PC to emulate an XP machine, so as to run any XP software or do ...
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Is it possible to install Windows 8 using Microsoft Virtual PC?
I'm trying to install Windows 8 on my pc via Microsoft Virtual PC. However I get this annoying, non-descriptive error:
I'm looking to find out if Microsoft Virtual PC supports Windows 8, and if so ...
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Cannot boot Virtual Machine beyond the 1st time
I'm trying to run a Windows Server 2003 + SP2 Virtual Machine with Virtual PC.
So I created a new Virtual Machine, from the Virtual PC menu, selecting the VMHD file (which contains the operation ...
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Virtual PC changing user
I have Windows Virtual PC running XP Mode.
On a current local user <Mark> I have put the PC on a domain <mydomain>.
Virtual PC works but I struggle to get the image I have working on the ...
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Virtual PC 2007 - Caps lock reversed
Weird problem. Using virtual PC 2007, the status of the caps lock is reversed in the guest machine. If caps lock is off on the host, the guest has it on and vice-verse.
Host: Windows 7 x64
Guests: ...
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Differencing VHD devours disk
My differencing VHD is taking up almost all space on my physical hard drive. I have not much data on my XP32 environment which is being emulated by W7-64; so it's a puzzle to me.
Please suggest a ...
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Do VMware, Virtualbox & Virtual PC play nicely together?
Lately VirtualBox has been a bit unstable and I want to try other VMs.
If I install VMware and Virtual PC on the same host as VirtualBox will it cause problems (eg. crash the host)? What if I try to ...
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How to have Microsoft Virtual PC use 2 CPUs
I have XP mode running on Windows 7.
How can I setup multiple CPU usage (to boost performance)?
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How to hibernate seamless windows XP mode under windows 7?
My windows XP mode runs seamlessly under windows 7. i.e., applications are opened on windows 7 desktop, and there is no virtual PC desktop.
I want to hibernate the virtual machine, but there are no ...
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I have a differencing VHD that's eating away 90+% of my HDD. How can I shrink it?
I have a differencing VHD that's eating away 90+% of my HDD. How can I shrink it?
The host OS is W7-64, the virtual is XP32.
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Cloud Computing for Mac [closed]
I'm looking to get into iPhone game development, which unfortunately necessitates owning a Mac.
Since I'm currently lacking funds and not 100% sure that this is the way to go, someone suggested to me ...
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How can I format the data that is used by my Virtual PC only?
I have Win7 64 bit and I'm running Virtual PC emulating XP at 32 bit.
Problem is that there are program/driver errors on the stuff thats installed on the virtual and I want to format it - but not my ...
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tie virtual pc to a user account on Windows 7
Is there a way that when you log in a user account, it automatically opens up the virtual machine? and then the user works inside the virtual pc? So even if they do something harmful to the computer, ...
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Access 2003 under Virtual PC: can I migrate to real PC? Or buy Office 2010?
27" iMac running win7 under bootcamp (slick! ). I have Access 2003 program with files linked through ODBC used by 4 installations (all with Access 2003 installed). I want to buy Access 2010 and try it ...
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Screen-Sharing Options for Student/Tutor? [closed]
I used to use GoToMeeting about a year ago, but that was too expensive at $49/mo.
Some things I liked about it (in the context of learning computing) include:
I could give point/click access to ...
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Microsoft Virtual PC installation
I am trying to run an old Windows 16-bit application. I'm running Windows 7 SP1 64-bit.
I downloaded Virtual PC via steps 2 and 3 of the following link:
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Error in VirtualPC 2007: Cannot activate integration components
I have a Win7-64 laptop on which WinXP mode functions flawlessly. Recently I added a second virtual PC for Win7-32. Every time the Win-7 virtual machine starts up I get the above error. The only way I ...
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testing Internet Explorer 9 on virtual PC
I've downloaded the Windows 7 .vhd from Microsoft's site. I created a virtual PC from that .vhd. It runs OK, but the welcome screen want a password for one of the accounts (admin and administrator).
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I need a virtual machine with 2 cores and network adapter 1gig access
I have an application that controls a piece of equipment over the network. it is cpu and network intensive and i want to try and test it on other OS's. all i have is a windows 7 box so i created some ...
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Create a private network inside my Windows 7 machine
My Main Rig is a Windows 7 Professional laptop. On this machine is two Virtual Machines, both of which are also Windows 7 Professional. I need these VMs to be able to see each other but I also need ...
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Virtual machine prompts me for windows authentication credentials every time I maximize and restore it
Can I set it to stop doing that? I have to connect to the domain of my company network, so it gets really annoying having to enter the password every time.
windows xp is being run and the main ...
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Create a new, clean XP-mode Windows Virtual PC instance
I have an XP-mode VPC that I've installed some things on. How can I create a brand new instance or clear this one back to the default state from the template? I thought if I tried to create a new VPC ...
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Virtual PC dynamic disk - why limited to 130GB?
On my Windows 7 machine with XP Mode installed, I created a new VM in Virtual PC. I have a 1TB SATA drive installed in the machine and when I create a dynamic (expanding) disk, it only allows me to ...
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Windows Server 2008 virtualization without Intel VT
I don't have a machine capable of Intel VT ("Virtualization Technology"), but I was assigned to do certain experiments with Windows Server 2008 R1 / R2 and SharePoint 2008 / 2010. I tried installing ...
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Same Windows XP Mode VHD on two Windows 7 machines
I have 2 machines I use regularly for work. One is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and the other is Windows 7 Pro 32-bit. One or two pieces of software I still need for work need to be run in Windows XP Mode ...
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Convert VirtualBox guest into main OS
Is it possible to somehow convert my guest OS to the Host OS?
I have a PC and would like to physically install my current Ubuntu VM into my new notebook.
Is it possible?
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How to install Ms Virtual PC in Windows Server 2008?
My server doesn't have Hyper-V feature and I need to launch a virtual pc image on it.
I tried installing from this Microsoft link but failed.
Is it a workaround for me? Please help.
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How to know whether BIOS has turned on the processor's Virtualization Technology or not?
My BIOS does not have any option to show / modify virtualization technology (VT).
Although my processor supports VT, I am not sure whether it is turned on in BIOS.
Is there any utility which can ...
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Copying files into a virtual PC is very slow
I have a winXP virtual PC running on a powerful win7 x64 (4 cores 8Gb RAM) workstation.
When I'm copying files in the virtual PC, from my workstation (\\<my computer name>\c$\etc.)
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