Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Robert — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:58:04 GMT

I get invalid or missing product ID when I try to install it. It also has an error in the middle of installing (msiexec?) but seems to finish. Any ideas?

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

jpfieber@gmail.com — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:02:07 GMT

I don't find it there, broken link. Did a search and only found beta info.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Mark Farina — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:03:49 GMT

Are those "here" links supposed to be links?

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Virtual PC Guy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:21:08 GMT

The link is working correctly at the moment...

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

mikeb — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:34:05 GMT

People may be having problems with the link because the VPC 2007 Beta is in a 'Program' on connect.microsoft.com that you have to apply for membership in in order to get to the downloads.

Note that applying for the VPC 2007 program has no conditions other than having a Passport (or Windows Live ID) account on MS Connect.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Akuma — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:22:17 GMT

It's still very buggy, for example, you can't install VPC Additions on a clean Windows 95 installation.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Virtual PC Guy — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:26:42 GMT

Akuma -

That is not a bug. Windows 95 is not supported.

Cheers,

Ben

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Akuma — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:12:21 GMT

But although Windows 95 is not supported why to remove the VPC old Additions for it? The Addition was done anyway so it would be a nice feature to see.

At least VPC 2007 could include the latest VPC Additions for not supported anymore OSes in a separate file and not to make people searching or reinstalling old VPC 2004, getting the file, removing it and reinstalling again VPC 2007 cause that is annoying.

It would be also nice to include a message on the setup program of the Additions for the unsupported Windows OSes.

Greets,

Akuma.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

DosFreak — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:51:41 GMT

Sorry but I gotta do it.

"Why won't the Virtual PC 2007 Virtual Machine Additions load on Windows 95?"

It's a feature, not a bug!

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Sergey M — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:13:34 GMT

Ben,

Any ideas on VPC 2007 release time frame (other than this year <g>)? Thanks.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Raymond Comvalius — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:19:00 GMT

When I change the size of a VM window on my Vista laptop, the content turns black and never comes back. I went back to the beta release that runs just fine.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Virtual PC Guy — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:46:50 GMT

Sergey -

Nothing that I can say on a blog :-)

Cheers,

Ben

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Gavster — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:43:31 GMT

Good to see that on XP Home it will install once you acknowledge the unsupported OS message.

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John Schneider — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:50:55 GMT

What is the difference between this VPC 2007 "Release Candidate", and the VPC 2007 (6.0.122.0) that I've already been running the past few months?

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

peter — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:53:22 GMT

How do i install VPC 2007 RC on a german Windows Server 2003 - all i get is "not supported Host-OS"?

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Hari (MSFT) — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:37:57 GMT

If you are trying to run on a server SKU other than Standard, this message is by design. Only the Standard server SKU's are supported as Host OS for Virtual PC. But you can go ahead and install (RC build (6.0.142) only, this was blocked in 6.0.122 Beta build).

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Jimmy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:39:30 GMT

I installed it, created a VM and pointed to to an ISO CD image of Windows XP Pro SP2. It started the install, formatted the volume and started copying files. This is where it ground to a halt and basically became unusable. I waited over an hour and it didn't get past 60% copying the files. I'm back using VMware for the moment as it works perfectly. Microsoft you need to get your act together on this.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Matt — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:09:35 GMT

The download link has not worked for several days now. It results in a "Page Not Found" error. There is also no "Connection" listed for Virtual PC 2007 RC. There is a link at the bottom of the connections page to apply for Beta membership, but I assume that is for the older Beta version, not the new RC version.

Others have pointed this out, yet there is still no resolution.

Does the RC version in fact exist and, if so,

how on Earth do we download it?

Thanks.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

John Schneider — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:25:38 GMT

I just visited the link at the top of this page about an hour ago, and it worked fine. Got the page to sign-in with my Passport ID, then it went straight to the download page.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Stephan Wolf [MVP] — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:31:50 GMT

1. German text does not fit in some windows and has extra characters.

2. The "Setup is copying files..." part of XP SP2 installation from an ISO image is terribly slow (long periods with no HD or CD activity but 100% CPU utilization).

Host: cpu=AMD Pentium-4 class (x86 F15 M11 S1), mem=2GB, os=XP Pro SP2 (German).

Are you sure this is a release candidate?

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

John Schneider — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:50:15 GMT

Ben - can you please tell me/us what is the difference between this VPC 2007 "Release Candidate", and the VPC 2007 (6.0.122.0) that I've already been running the past few months?

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Casey Brennan — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:10:46 GMT

Ben, I see that Win 2000 is not supported as a host OS. Is there a way I can bypass the error message and attempt the installation anyway? Thanks...

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate is available

Preben Lundborg — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:58:59 GMT

I get this error:

I get invalid or missing product ID when I try to install it.

On the PC with the error, the installation runs with no user interaction. This windows XP installation has had an installation with virtual PC 2004 Sp1 with a product id (installed before it was a free product). I uninstalled the old product and tried the new one and got the error message above. There are no errors displayed during the installation. I tried the same installation on a PC, where virtual PC 2004 had never been installed, and there were no error and the installation runs with user interaction and the product key is displayed (grayed). I need a way to force the installer to go to interactiv mode.

re: Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate install error

Plundborg — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:38:04 GMT

I just got it installed. If you get an error, just uninstall windows installer 3.1 and let the system revert to version 3.0. This installer version handles the installation :-)