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Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:53 PM

Running the checked version of Windows under Virtual PC

When I was working at Connectix it was occasionally reported that the checked version of Windows XP would not run under Virtual PC (Driver developers use the checked build of Microsoft Windows to identify and diagnose operating-system-level problems -
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:51 PM

Scorched Earth under Virtual PC

Scorched Earth is one of the all time classic DOS games. It is a superb implementation of an artillery game where you get to control a tank and try to blow up everyone else. It is a very simple - but quite addictive game. As you progress through the game
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:51 PM

Watching DVR recordings under Virtual PC

For the last couple of months I have been an avid user of Windows Media Center 2005. One of the features I enjoy the most is the ability to watch shows that I have recorded directly on my computer. Well - for reasons which I will not go into to - my main
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Monday, June 27, 2005 10:50 PM

Shared components of Virtual PC and Virtual Server

Microsoft supports having both Virtual PC and Virtual Server installed on the same computer at the same time. When a user does this there are two major 'shared components' between the two products. The virtual machine monitor (VMM.SYS) which is responsible
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 11 Comments
Friday, June 24, 2005 10:47 PM

Nintendo Game and Watch simulators under Virtual PC

Recently I was contacted by someone who was trying to get some old Nintendo Game and Watch simulators to run under Virtual PC. These are highly authentic versions of the classic handheld games that I had always wanted when I was a kid. You can download
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:50 PM

Warlords BattleCry under Virtual PC

Warlords BattleCry is an interesting spin off from the original Warlords series. It is not a turn based strategy game (like the others in the series) but is a real time strategy. As far as realtime strategy games go - it is not that bad - but to be honest
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:48 PM

Using RAID and Mirror configurations under Virtual PC

One obscure thing that you can do with Virtual PC is to configure it to support software RAID and Mirror implementations While this is rather pointless from a practical perspective (as you are not actually gaining any performance or redundancy) - it useful
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Friday, June 17, 2005 10:17 PM

Warlords III under Virtual PC

Moving on in the Warlords series - we arrive at Warlords III. Warlords III continues to enhance the Warlords series - adding new features, better graphics, more advanced 'Hero' building methods and the concept of a 'campaign'. I am constantly torn between
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:49 PM

Sending custom parameters into virtual machines under Virtual Server

In a previous post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/01/24/359650.aspx ) - I discussed how Virtual PC / Virtual Server provide basic information about the host computer in the registry of the guest operating system. Virtual Server extends
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:56 PM

Virtual PC vs. Virtual Server whitepaper

One of the most common questions I get asked is 'What is the difference between Virtual PC and Virtual Server?' - so we now have a handy little whitepaper that details this for people: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/4/d/14d17804-1659-435d-bc11-657a6da308c0/VSvsVPC.doc
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Monday, June 13, 2005 9:53 PM

Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

To be honest - I had never thought about installing Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC. That is until someone emailed me letting me know that it worked (thanks Paul Langton). This is actually pretty cool for two reasons: If a user is running Virtual
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 14 Comments
Friday, June 10, 2005 9:19 PM

Warlords II under Virtual PC 2004

In my opinion - Warlords II is probably one of the greatest turn based warfare strategy games of all time. Warlords II took the Warlords I concepts and extended them in many significant ways. Warlords II saw the introduction of: Randomly generated maps
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:23 PM

Support for large ISO images in Virtual Server SP1 Beta

One of the new features / bug fixes in the Virtual Server SP1 Beta release is that we now support the use of ISO images that are over 2.2GB in size (yay!). A number of people have wondered why we supported ISO images up to 2.2GB in size but not higher
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:59 PM

Problems with shutting down Windows when Virtual Server is running

There is a known problem that can occur when trying to shutdown a physical computer running Virtual Server with a large number of virtual machines running. The issue is caused by default Virtual Server will attempt to 'Save state' all of the running virtual
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Friday, June 03, 2005 10:34 PM

Running Warlords under Virtual PC

Warlords has to be one of my all time favorite games. I spent many late nights playing this game against my cousins and friends. This is a fantastic turn based strategy game, where you start out with a single castle and a hero - with aims to conquer the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:49 PM

Developing VM-Typer (Part 3)

So now we have a basic application up and running with the right COM security model, the right threading apartment model and a connection to the Virtual Server instance (from past posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/05/26/422447.aspx
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:55 PM

Diablo II under Virtual PC

A while ago I posted about running Diablo under Virtual PC ( http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/04/29/412428.aspx ) - however at that time I did not post about running Diablo II under Virtual PC because of a problem I was hitting when I
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
 
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