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Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

The RTM builds of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode are now available for people with an MSDN / TechNet subscription.  On MSDN you can sign in and:

  • Go to Subscriber Downloads
  • Select Applications
  • Scroll to the bottom of the list and select Windows Virtual PC

Cheers,
Ben

Published Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:34 AM by Virtual PC Guy

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# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Awesome! Been waiting for this!

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:31 PM by Martin

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Are there any plans to allow Application publishing from Windows 2003 guests? As a SharePoint developer I pretty much only ever run Windows 2003 guest VMs and would love to be able to use my VM Visual Studio install via application publishing.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:44 PM by ripster

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Can't run although I have both Technet and MSDN. No support for virtualization in my BIOS.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:58 PM by zoran

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Do you have a notebook or desktop system? Does your CPU have a VT support?

Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:46 AM by Enis Sahinovic

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Ugh!  I kept checking this blog for details of when it was going to be released to TechNet, but mum was the word.  So I installed the RC on Wednesday morning and spent half the day getting my dinosaur apps/tools installed and "published" back to Win7.

Any word on the upgrade path?  From what I heard it's a complete uninstall/reinstall.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 9:29 AM by Kevin

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Any word on how to change the default path for new virtual machines, what you used to do using the MYVIRTUALMACHINES environmental variable?  You mentioned earlier that this was scriptable.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:11 AM by ac

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Hopefully it will fix the issue where the Windows Mobile Emulators can not connect to the network adapter.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:05 PM by James

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

- Hung my machine no BSOD nothing hung (I have latest technology Win 7 release, I7 965, Asus WS Rev MB, 12 MB Triple Channel Mem, etc)

- Would not Upgrade Integration Components for Vista Ultimate Sp1 on existing Virtual PC 2007 image

- Doesn't support all OSes Virtual PC 2007 did

- No 64 bit client support

- Extremely slow

- I wouldn't even consider this product Beta little lone release it wow.

- I now use Sun Virtual Box you could learn from their very effecient, high performance, wide range of hardware and OS support.

Friday, October 09, 2009 1:46 AM by Charles Hurley

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

I have been waiting for this RTM release for a while and the moment I knew it was released to MSDN Subscribers, I installed it on my machine. Soon after I installed the RTM build my video driver got corrupted and started running into Blue screen of death. I run Windows 7 Ultimate RTM 64-Bit build on Intel Core 2 T7500 with support for VT, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS. I had to perform a system restore but fail to correct the problem. Finally after unistalling and re installing the video driver a couple of times, the problem seems to have gone. Any thoughts on why this could have happened? I am skeptical about re-installing it on my machine.

Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:50 AM by Jay

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Dear Ben, i have an issue with dhcp with 2 virtual machine using windows virtual pc in  windows 7 os. All machines are cponfigured with internal network. The network is functional between these two virtual machines but the dhcp client don't obtain an ip (it obtain the apipa address) The server dhcp is operational and i have many friends with the same error. Nobody can obtain an ip address from dhcp (2 machine: 1 client and 1 server dhcp). A virtual pc issue????

thanx

valerio

Monday, October 12, 2009 6:46 AM by Valerio

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Ripster -

No, there are no plans for supporting application publishing from Windows Server 2003 virtual machines.  

Kevin -

To upgrade you need to uninstall and reinstall - but virtual machines are compatible (saved states are not, so virtual machines need to be shutdown prior to the upgrade).

ac -

Yes, I have a script for this in my blog post queue.

Jay -

I have no idea what might have happened to cause this.

Valerio -

What OS are you using for your DHCP server?

Cheers,

Ben

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:58 PM by Virtual PC Guy

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Just installed the RTM of Virtual PC and XP Mode. Couple of questions:

1. In the Virtual Machines folder, there is no menu item to create a new VM.

2. In the beta, I was able to start a VPN connection on Win 7 and the VM would be able to access machines connected to the VPN connection. With the RTM this is not working.

Any ideas?

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:45 PM by Chuck Parkey

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Hi Ben, Just built Win 7 x64 box.  When I try to install Windows XP Mode, it tells me it's already installed.  But there is no 'Windows XP Mode' in the start menu.  So I installed Windows Virtual PC, and when I start that it just gives me an empy Virtual Machines folder.  I found in a 'Windows XP Mode Base' virtual hard disk file in C:\Program Files\Windows XP Mode, but it won't open.  What am I missing?

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:22 PM by Simon

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

@Ben

Hi,Ben, I'am using Windows server 2003 sp2 as a dhcp server the first trial. In the second trial i used a windows server 2008 sp2 but the result is the same. Now configuring a loopback microsoft adapter on windows 7 host machine and configuring the two vm guest (client and server dhcp) with this nic it's all ok. So, the problem is the "internal" configuration.

Thank you

Valerio

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:01 AM by Valerio

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

@Chuck

Ben posted a fix back in July:

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2009/07/06/fixing-a-missing-create-virtual-machine-option-windows-virtual-pc.aspx

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:38 AM by Trevor Scroggins

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

@Ben  

A solution from microsoft for the dhcp problem, it's a bug in windows virtual pc.

Response from Microsoft:

Yes this is a known issue that when you connect the virtual machines to internal network, it gets the IP address from the internal network inbuilt DHCP server.

You can work around this as follows

- Hibernate/Turn off all the VMs. From Task Manager, kill vpc.exe if it doesn`t exit on its own.

-Edit "%localappdata%\microsoft\Windows Virtual PC\options.xml"

-In the XML file -> Under the "internal network" node: i.e. "preferences\Virtual Network id =0\virtual_server\dhcp\" , set enabled = false.

-Turn on the VMs and verify the scenario.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:01 AM by Valerio

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Hi Ben,

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) running on an Intel processor.  I previously had the beta version of Windows Virtual PC installed.   It worked fine.

Seeing your note here, I uninstalled the previous version, and downloaded the "mu_windows_virtual_pc_x64_435190" file from Technet.  The install appears to run completely, and asks me to reboot, but after rebooting, there is no program entry for Windows Virtual PC...

Any thoughts / suggestions?

Thanks!

Friday, October 16, 2009 6:51 AM by David

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Is this available to the general public yet? Any idea when it will be?

Saturday, October 17, 2009 7:27 AM by Zapper

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Has anyone tried to run an existing VPC produced with VPC2007 on the XP mode for Win 7.

Saturday, October 17, 2009 9:50 AM by John Eppes

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

The need for VT supported cpu is where I come up short. Purchased Win7 on the 20th, and have been disappointed since.

This is on my laptop (I do all my business on) which I purchased less than 6 months ago with an Intel Core2 Duo P7350 @2.00GHz processor.

Not only did buy it too early for the free upgrade to windows 7, but apparently too early to continue to use my incompatible programs on 7 since I dont have VT support.

Unless they can manage to make a working set without the need for VT I will be saying goodbye to Microsoft and I am sure I wont be the only one.

Next time I will just go to best buy, give them my money and leave the new operating system on the shelve for the next schmuck. Then at least I wont have to waste the time rolling back installations.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:39 PM by Marcus

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

Chuck Parkey -

For the first issue - check out: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2009/07/06/fixing-a-missing-create-virtual-machine-option-windows-virtual-pc.aspx

For the second issue - we should never allow you to "piggy back" a virtual machine on the hosts VPN connection - as this is a security issue.

Simon -

Can you try and uninstall Windows XP mode from "Programs and Features" and then install it again?

Valerio -

Thanks for the heads up on the DHCP issue.  I will add that to my "things to blog" list.

David -

Check the "Turn on Windows Features" section of control panel and see if Windows Virtual PC is checked.

John Eppes -

Yes, I do this all the time.

Cheers,

Ben

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:20 PM by Virtual PC Guy

# re: Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

I always expected that Virtual PC would support bidirectional parallel porst when the host used one.

For one one reason or another it is only a spp port that is emulated. Why?

I tried to trick it thru device manager by disabling the SPP port and enabling an ECP port to have it working. To no avail.

a few  questions:

is there a reason why only SPP is enabled?

do you intend to put ecp support in virtual pc in the near future?

is a workaround available (eg register changes?)

or do you have an experimental solution so that I could test that for you?

Kind regards,

Wim

wimkapteyn at hot mail dot com

Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:17 PM by wimkapteyn

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