Questions tagged [microsoft-virtual-pc]
A Microsoft program to virtualize another operating system within Windows.
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How to run Mac OS X within Windows Virtual PC? [closed]
The short answer is: You Can't.
It seems to be a popular question as to whether you can install/run Mac OS X under virtualization within Windows. However, most of the questions really answer the ...
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How do I install and use Windows Virtual PC in Windows 8?
I really liked the integrated Virtual Machine that Windows had built-in with Windows 7, known as the Windows Virtual PC. I'm looking to install that again. I'd like to be able to install multiple ...
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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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Is it possible to have 64 bit guest OSes run in Virtual PC RC on Windows 7?
Is it possible to have 64 bit guest OSes run in Virtual PC RC on Windows 7? I tried to install a Windows 7x64 Ultimate guest in Virtual PC, on a host PC running Windows 7x64, but got the following ...
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Can I install windows 7 x64 in a VPC where the host is vista x86?
Before I waste my time trying is this possible?
If not, i'll just install win 7 x86 on the VPC.
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How do I convert a .vhd disk image to work with VMWare Fusion 2?
I’ve just installed VMWare Fusion 2 on my Mac.
Microsoft makes available some Virtual PC disk images containing different versions of IE, so that us humble web developers can test our code on them:
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Should I enable Firewall and AntiVirus on a VirtualPC VM? [duplicate]
I run W7 64-bit with windows firewall + MSE running, and there is a firewall on my router also. I want to run a VM (probably using VirtualPC which comes free) but I'm unclear if this is guarded by the ...
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Can Windows Virtual PC run a 64-bit OS?
I'm running Windows Virtual PC (RC) on a Windows 7 (RTM) 64-bit host. When I create a new virtual machine and try to install 64-bit Windows 7 on that VM, I get "this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit ...
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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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Can you install Ubuntu Server in a Windows PC VM on Windows 7?
I am running Windows 7 64-bit. I've installed Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode successfully.
Next, I downloaded Ubuntu Server 9.04 32-bit. I created a new virtual machine with a dynamically ...
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Creating a Windows Virtual PC image from a Physical machine
On Windows 7 (Home Premium), using Windows Virtual PC, how can you create an image of a physical machine running Windows XP?
I've found the "Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit", but this is of ...
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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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How can I remove the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 splash screen?
I have an application running on MS-DOS 6.22, which is installed in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on a WinVista machine. I would like to eliminate the Virtual PC splash screen that appears when the users ...
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Drag N' Drop in Virtual PC 2007
I'm running Windows 7 with Virtual PC 2007. I was wondering if there was any way to Drag n' drop files from the hosting computer to the VM, or vica-versa. The VM I'm connecting to is Windows XP.
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MS-DOS 6.22 keyboard configuration
I have MS-DOS 6.22 in a virtual machine (Virtual PC 2007) and I wanted to properly configure the keyboard.
The keyboard I have is a French-Canadian one (FYI in Windows XP my keyboard is labeled "...
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Find a Windows 10 or 11 ISO to install it in a virtual machine
I know how to install an ISO in VirtualBox or Virtual PC, but I don't know where to find a Windows 10 ISO file. Microsoft provide a tool to download Windows 10 but it seems that it's only usable to ...
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What's better a better VM app: VMWare, Parallels or Virtual PC [closed]
From a Windows developer's perspective, which VM application is the best? Why?
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How to hide from a program that it is running on a virtual machine?
Some software contains tests to see if they are running on a virtual machine.
It's very unpleasant to see alert messages such as "Sorry, this application cannot run under a Virtual Machine." and have ...
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Move "XP Mode" from Windows Virtual PC to VirtualBox?
I installed "XP Mode" in Windows 7 (which uses Windows Virtual PC to host XP). I have now discovered that VirtualBox, which I have installed on the same Windows 7 machine, refuses to run at the same ...
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Copy and Paste from Virtual PC has stopped working
Up until the last week I was able to copy and paste text from my virtual PC (VPC) to my host machine, however I tried it today with no success...it doesn't error it will just paste whatever is in the ...
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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 shrink Windows 7 XP Mode VHD files?
I'm trying to shrink a Windows 7 XP Mode VHD file with VhdResizer with little success.
When I select my VHD file, it says "VhdExpand only supports fixed and dynamic VHD files". My XP Mode VHDs are ...
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Multiple monitors with virtual machine
Is it possible to use multiple monitors with Windows Virtual PC 2007?
If not, are there any other virtual machines that do support multiple monitors?
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Move an existing XP install into VMWare or Virtual PC
I have a computer that has a bunch of things on it that are pretty legacy. It's an old machine, but getting everything on it set up properly on another computer could take weeks, if it's even possible ...
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How to give virtual machine access to the Internet, but block from LAN?
I am setting up a virtual machine using Microsoft Virtual PC in Windows 7. The VM will run a Windows XP.
I want to set up a public-facing server in it for web pages, subversion and other things, and ...
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How to get good video performance for remote access to virtualized computer?
At home, I'd like to move my main Windows installation off of my desktop computer and replace it with a virtualized guest installation on my combined file server, web server and media center. The ...
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Convert partition to Virtual Disk image
I have a 250 GB HD with a XP partition. I partitioned the XP Box to 112 GB, since the max Virtual PC can load is 127 GB.
I have a new motherboard and can't load into the partition, so I am using ...
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Windows 7 Virtual PC + Linux Ubuntu
I've installed Ubuntu inside a virtual machine running on Windows 7's Virtual PC. One thing I've noticed right away is that it has to capture the mouse and not all the hardware works as expected. I ...
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How to increase virtual hard drive space
I have a Microsoft Virtual PC hard drive (.vhd format) that's maxed out at 16GB. What would be the best way to increase this disk space?
Booting into the machine (Windows XP Professional) and using ...
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Clone current host OS to a guest virtual machine
I would like to run a few repeated checks on a setup procedure I am documenting, to verify my document. I would like to somehow create a VM that replicates the environment on my machine, i.e. the ...
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Internal stack overflow on Virtual PC when installing Windows 98
I'm attempting to use Windows Virtual PC to set up a Windows 98 (SE) VM; you know, for nostalgia's sake. However, whenever I run it, I get the following error:
An internal stack overflow has caused ...
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Error when booting up a Windows 95 virtual machine in Windows Virtual PC
I tried to install Windows 95 on a Windows Virtual PC virtual machine, but when I am trying to run it post installation, I got an error during boot:
When initializing device IOS:
Windows protection ...
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Dual-monitor VPC/VMware
If there was a feature request for Virtual PC or VMWare, it would be dual-monitor support. Why hasn't this been done?
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Convert Windows XP x32 physical machine to guest virtual machine [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 a ...
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Where is my .vmc config file for Virtual PC
Where does Virtual PC stores the .vmc files ? I can't find them.
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Virtual PC on Windows 7 - Hardware-assisted virtualization is disabled
I am running a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 with an Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 processor. When I run Virtual PC in Windows 7, I get the following error:
Unable to start Windows Virtual PC because hardware-...
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Why do I get an internal stack overflow error when minimizing and restoring an MS-DOS virtual machine window?
I am using Windows Virtual PC on a Windows 7 machine. I have created an MS-DOS 6.22 virtual machine with 16 MB RAM and a 2 GB hard disk. Whenever I minimize or otherwise deactivate the window, and ...
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Microsoft Virtual PC maximum hard disk PC
What is the maximum space that I can allocate on a MS Virtual PC 2007?
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Virtualize Mac OS X Using Virtual Box or Microsoft Virtual PC [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to run Mac OS X within Windows Virtual PC?
Hi.
I know there are a lot of tutorials and stuffs telling how to install MAC OSX on windows, using vmware, like this one
But ...
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How to setup virtual PC with php and access it from PC host?
I want to put a php server on Virtual PC but can't figure out how to connect to it from PC Host. Is there something special to do or to know about network config ?
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Internet access not working in Virtual PC
I used the HD2VHD (from Sys Internals) wit the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) enabled.
However, when I try to run it, the Virtual PC guest doesn't have internet access.
Any ideas?
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