>> Support for the use of fullscreen virtual machines on multi-monitor systems (VM still stays on just one monitor though)..

I don't understand what this really means. Is this like Remote Desktop does where I can go full screen on a specific monitor and when I move the mouse to the other screen it does not "come out of full screen"? Or are you saying something else?

Great news, Virtual Pc is a great product.

Thanks

Colin

Could someone clarify, can you install Vista 64-bit as a host AND guest OS ?

I just downloaded and installed it, and I was surprised to find that VPC2007 didn't have a Vista-style visual refresh.  The icons/images are the same old XP-style images, instead of nice Vista-style images.

Oh wait, this is Microsoft--on second thought, this doesn't surprise me at all.

(Sorry Ben, I know that you're (probably) not in a position to have done anything about it.)

Installed VPC 2007(64-bit) on my Vista 64-bit Ultimate machine.

When I tried to install Vista 64-bit Ultimate as a guest OS, I received an error during Vista setup that I did not have a 64-bit processor.

I have an Intel quad core processor(QX6700) but according to VPC 2007 the detected processor is a "Pentium III class".

Is this a bug with VPC 2007 ? Or is a 64-bit guest OS not supported ?

Are the VPC Additions for all the various OS's the same as the release candidate?  Do we need to upgrade those?

Is Intel Pentium-M (mobile) officially supported ? There were timing problems with VPC 2004 SP1 when SpeedStep is activated.

Ben, can you guys change the download names for the 32bit and 64bit downloads. They are both setup.exe so if you download to the same folder you overwrite each other if you do not change the filename.

I changed mine to VPC200732bit and 64bit....

It also makes it easier to differentiate between different programs since some downloads on the internet also use setup.exe.

Only reason I can think you used setup.exe is either for the UAC "hole" for Runas Admin or just that no one bothered to think about changing the name.

Guys, as for 64bit guest support I do not see anything about that in Ben's post. He only mentions host support. If you want a 64bit guest then download Vmware Server. (I may be wrong since I haven't tried VPC 2007 yet but I'm likely not considering the glacial VPC development)

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Ben,

1) What about support for USB devices?

2) Does the final version of Virtual PC 2007 support USB devices?

I found out the hard-way that the beta version did not support USB devices.  I had to go to VMWare to get USB support.  :(

Until Virtual PC supports USB devices, it will be a sub-class product.

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Third and last time (early beta, beta and release build) I have to uninstall VPC2007 and rollback to VPC2004sp1. The reason - unpredictable but stable hungs and anavailablity working with fillscreen virtual machone from another desktop via RDP)

I cannot afford it, to loose results of my work, sorry guys.

My configuration - Asus A6T, AMD TurionTL52(2 core), 2GB RAM.

Another stuff that is not solved - is bad screen dimension changing. For example, I need the only clear and will predictable desire - to have _ALWAYS_ on my VPC 1280 x 800, that will not change due any (accsident) window resizing. It is impossible. At least, please add in future releases in your VMAdditions support for XWGA screen sizes. The world changed since 1024x768 a lot

Thanks

Ben,

I think that I did select "Vista" from the dropdown box when I created the VMC.  I'll try to re-create the VMC again later today, to see if that works.  Will post back.

Thanks,

Jim

Ben,

FYI, deleting, then re-creating the VMC, making SURE that I select "Vista", did the trick!  Thanks for your help.

Jim

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Only downside is it doesnt work on Home Premium, looks like i will have to upgrade to ultimate...

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I have VPC 2007 up and running on my Vista Home Premium working fine running Ubuntu Linix virtual PC and Windows XP Pro Virtual PC. You get a warning during install, ignore it and it works fantastic. Seems really fast to me too!

I am noticing that V PC 07 dosn't support Hardware virtualization on my computer where it did in V PC 04, But I am running Vista Ultimate and XP pro in V PC 07. It has the hardware virtualization box greyed out and in the guest OS it show that I have an intel processor but I in fact have a AMD, and wrong network and sound was found. I didn't have this problem with V PC 04 in XP as the host. Is this a V PC 07 problem or a Vista problem.

PXE boot won't work in my test environment. The network monitor on the dhcp server (a guest) sees only DHCP DISCOVER packets from the pxe boot guest and DHCP OFFER from the DHCP server. But the DHCP REQUEST packet from the pxe boot guest never arrives to the DHCP server.

With XP Pro host and a bridged host LAN adapter, the components of the bridged adapter are listed as available adapters in VPC2007's 'Networking Settings'.

This is different from VPC2004 and not documented in release notes. Presumably it means that it's possible to map a virtual adapter to one of the components rather than the combined adapter. Maybe this could be a future blog topic?

The 64-bit download wants to install under Program Files (x86), the default location for 32-bit programs

Is this expected?

Even though not officially supported!

see <a href=

"http://kucigaromeo.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/solarisexpress-b54-on-virtual-pc-2007/">this blog</a>

quite fast on E6300 Core 2 Duo @2.56 GHz with VTx enabled

acceptable on Celeron D 2.7 GHz

Hi,

I am planning to test our software on VPC.

Problem is,

our software installs MSDE, USB drivers and .NET Framework. everything gets installed but the usb drivers. as soon as the usb driver starts to install VPC boots and boots...

everything works great on regular pc.

Configuration:

VPC 2004/2007

Host:Windows 2000 Server

Guest:Windows XP Pro SP2

Please let me know how it can be fixed.

Thanks