Hyper-V Program Manager
The other day I had someone contact me with this question:
“I am running a program in Windows Virtual PC where I need to use the F1 key to bring up help information inside the virtual machine. However, whenever I press F1 the Windows Virtual PC help comes up instead. How to I get the F1 key to go to the virtual machine and not to Virtual PC?”
The answer to this is quite simple. If you open the virtual machine settings, go to the Keyboard entry and select To the virtual machine:
Then all key combinations – including F1 – will be sent to the virtual machine. There are some problems with this though:
Cheers, Ben
I have a DOS 6.22 application which prints receipts to a dot matrix parallel printer. The receipt has some double-high/double-wide characters which properly print when I send the appropiate escape sequences to LPT1. However, I ported this DOS app to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, added the dos vmadditions and the vm configuration file recognizes LPT1 and the receipt prints, except the escape sequences are not recognized by the printer.