Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

John Schneider — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:50:20 GMT

If we are running the current pre-release of VPC 2007, how do we upgrade? In-place or uninstall/reinstall?

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Roy — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:50:49 GMT

>> 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?

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

Virtual PC Guy — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:56:15 GMT

Roy -

Yes, You are correct.

Cheers,

Ben

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Virtual PC Guy — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:57:08 GMT

John Schneider -

You need to do an uninstall / reinstall.

Cheers,

Ben

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Adam — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:01:09 GMT

I was just looking by chance today for 2004 and i see the new 2007 version. Hell yes! Only downside is it doesnt work on Home Premium, looks like i will have to upgrade to ultimate...

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

Colin Diponio — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:08:20 GMT

Great news, Virtual Pc is a great product.

Thanks

Colin

Well done

Rik Hemsley — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:36:23 GMT

Congratulations to the development team on a job well done!

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Flavious — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:02:01 GMT

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

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Eric — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:10:39 GMT

Get below warning when trying to run.

<error>

Virtual PC has detected an invalid or missing Product ID.

A valid Product ID is required to operate Virtual PC. Please re-run the Virtual PC installer and enter a valid Product ID when requested.

</error>

Installer never requested Product ID. Running XP Pro, fully patched.

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

PatriotB — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:01:39 GMT

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.)

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

AStudent — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT

I am a Computer Science student and I need to use Fedora Linux for a university project. I can install it in a vm under Virtual PC 2004 but the issue is that I cannot easily move data from my Windows XP os into the Fedora vm and vice versa because:

1. USB Memory Stick support is not provided in Virtual PC 2004 and

2. No Virtual PC additions were provided for a Linux guest os.

Have these issues been fixed in the latest version of Virtual PC 2007? Specifically, is Memory Stick supported for moving data between host and guest oses? Are Virtual PC additions available for Linux guest for Virtual PC 2007? If not why not, since the Virtual PC Additions are already provided for Virtual Server, why not for Virtual PC as well? I haven't found any link on the Virtual PC 2007 home page to download the PC Additions for Linux, so I suppose that they are not available. Why is that? Can I use the Virtual Server ones with Virtual PC 2007?

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Flavious — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:07:55 GMT

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 ?

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Robert — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:58:05 GMT

Eric,

I have the same problem with VPC on my machine. I had to install it again on another PC and export the registry key to my first PC to make it work.

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Robert — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:58:47 GMT

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

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yksoft1 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:22:15 GMT

Flavious,

I'm using a Thinkpad R60 with Core Duo T2300E processor and Virtual PC 2007 also say that my CPU is a PIII class. In my opinion VPC still only detect the host CPU only according to the CPUID， and because both Pentium III and Core/Core2 Duo processors share the same family ID(6) and SSE ability, VPC thinks them as PIII class CPUs.

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Petr — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:28:38 GMT

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

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Spongbo — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:03:32 GMT

Does the old "upgrade the VMM component" work in the same way it used to?

Meaning: are there benefits to be reaped by co-installing VPC 07 on a VS 2005 machine, or vice versa?

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DosFreak — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:52:03 GMT

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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Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:36:31 GMT

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

Is this expected?

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Eik — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:56:37 GMT

********************

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.

********************

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

Virtual PC Guy — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:24:04 GMT

Flavious -

64 bit host, 32 bit guest. This is why the Vista install will be failing.

Eric / Robert -

Did you have VPC 2004 installed on the system?

AStudent -

You can use the Virtual Server Linux Additions - but they are not officially supported.

AStudent / Eik -

There is no USB support.

Robert -

The Additions are the same as the RC release.

Petr -

Yes, these issues have been addressed.

Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann -

Yes, this is expected. Search my blog for a post about this.

Cheers,

Ben

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muryk — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:13:44 GMT

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

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Jim — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:33:19 GMT

Hi,

I have a guest with Vista Home Premium, running under the just-released VPC 2007. I installed (and re-installed) the VM Additions, but can't seem to get sound to work, or a sound device to be detected in the Vista guest (also looked in Device Manager, tried to add "Legacy hardware", etc.).

I've seen posts that others have gotten sound to work with Vista guests under the VPC 2007 beta, so I'm wondering what I can/need to do to get this working?

Thanks,

Jim

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Virtual PC Guy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:50:32 GMT

muryk -

Did you file bugs against this during the beta program? If not, can you please contact Microsoft product support and provide them the details.

Jim -

When you created the virtual machine did you indicate that you were going to install Vista on it?

Cheers,

Ben

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Eric — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:28:46 GMT

To upgrade to 2007 from 2004 I assume it's an uninstall/reinstall. Can we keep our virtual machines from 2004 and use them in 2007?

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Jim — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:50:02 GMT

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

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download! - USB support

Michael Thwaite — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:32:30 GMT

USB support: how-to:

You can add USB support to your guests by installing simple USB-to-Ethernet/LAN software; a couple I've looked at:

http://www.eltima.com/downloads/

http://www.usb-over-network.com/

I've also bought a great hardware solution:

http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp

Here you put the device on your desk and can even plug in usb memory sticks/scanners/hard disks into virtual servers many miles away.

Enjoy.

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

Jim — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:58:20 GMT

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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rootsdigger05 — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:49:34 GMT

Is there a way to view Aero with Vista as guest in Vitual PC 2007?

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Andy Mc — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:19:48 GMT

<quote>

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

</quote>

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!

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Matteo — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:26:14 GMT

Why Virtual PC isn't Vista Home compatible? I tried to install it on several Italian PCs for purpose testing: all of them crashed...

It's not good to see that a person who create free wp themes (and need to test them with ie6) in the free time doesn't have a precious instrument like this....

It's very funny too that VPC 2007 is available for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition....

What does a user do with a Tablet PC and a processor with about 800mhz/1 ghz, virtualization ??? no....

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MrChevy3 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:22:03 GMT

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.

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

Virtual PC Guy — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:04:48 GMT

Eric -

Virtual machines from VPC 2004 are compatible with VPC 2007. And yes, you have to uninstall /reinstall.

Jim -

Good!

Matteo -

As already noted, VPC 2007 does work on Vista home, it just is not officially supported. What problems ave you seeing? Also, I am currently looking at getting a dual-core 2.0 Ghz tablet.

MrChevy3 -

Given that VPC 2004 has no support for hardware virtualization, I am not save what you think you ave seeing here.

Cheers,

Ben

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download! - PXE

dino — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:58:57 GMT

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.

re: Virtual PC 2007 available for download!

Matteo — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:09:02 GMT

Hello Virtual PC Guy :)

My problems were a complete disaster on Windows Vista Home Premium: it seems corruption of a lot of dll.

After the crash i tried to reinstall on my GIGABYTE GA-M51GM-S2G in order:

-- Windows Vista Home Premium

-- Nforce 410 Chipset Drivers with Integrated Graphics- Windows Vista 32-Bit

-- Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs R1.60

-- VPC 2007

The problem now is solved: i didn't install previously Nforce 410 Chipset Drivers

and now system is stable.... (no blue screen, no crash..)

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/df — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:44:27 GMT

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?

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Otto — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:29:57 GMT

hi, is it possible to install vista 64 bit as a guest OS on 32 bit Vista business?

processor is core 2 duo e6600

thanks

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Michael Saucier — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:47:28 GMT

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

Is this expected?

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SJ — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:41:18 GMT

Otto,

VPC does not support x64 OSes as guests, only on the host PC.

Michael,

VPC is a 32-bit app, even on a 64bit system. As is VM Ware's Workstation product.

Solaris Express works

kucigaromeo — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:14:22 GMT

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

Virtual PC 2007 v Virtual server 2005 R2

Fiddler — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:21:37 GMT

Hi Ben,

I am trying to evaluate Windows server 2003 in a virtual lab.

which version should I be using 2005R2 or PC2007 ?

They both run Win Server 2003 guest OS.

The most annoying is when I download 2005 R2 and install completly I do not get any application instlled to run and launch the guest machines, I just get the VMH.exe and vssrvc.exe. both do nothing when double clicked...

At least Virtual PC 2007 allows me to launch the app.

Many thanks

Fid.

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VPCTestGuy — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:34:11 GMT

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