Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

Travis Owens — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 05:41:01 GMT

Wow that is cool, it never crossed my mind to run XP Tablet Edt under Virtual PC. Now what would be the real icing on the cake is if they added Windows CE 5.0 to an upcoming Virtual PC.

Honestly I haven't attempted to develope for either boxes and maybe the Pocket PC emulator is enough, but it sure sounds like a neat feature.

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

Paul — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 05:46:24 GMT

I think that the Pocket PC emulator was based on some of the connectix code who made the predecessor to Virtual PC, though I could be completely wrong about that.

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

Virtual PC Guy — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:55:48 GMT

Correct - the PocketPC Emulator is actually just a modified version of Virtual PC.

Cheers,
Ben

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

Dave — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:31:14 GMT

Let me get this straight. You're running XPTE on a virtual machine on a desktop (or laptop)VPC host machine? Or are you running VPC on a tablet host machine, with XPTE running on the virtual machine? Or both?

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

Chris De Herrera — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:13:44 GMT

Cool article. I posted it on Tablet PC Talk.

Also, there are emulators for the Pocket PC and Smartphone for Windows Mobile 5.0. They are not standard Virutal PCs because they support running native ARM code like a Pocket PC or Smartphone does. You can download the emulators from http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/windowsmobile5/tools/default.aspx

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

Gary Bushey — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:38:46 GMT

What machine are you usinng? I have VPC running on my Toshiba Tecra and I notice short hang ups every so often. VPC works great on my Toshiba M200 though. Very odd.

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

Paul — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:59:01 GMT

Hi Dave,

In my case (being the Paul Langton Ben graciously mentioned in his article) I ran XP Tablet edition inside a Virtual PC running on a desktop machine. But theres no reason why that virtual PC couldn't be on a notebook, Tablet, or anything else capable of running Virtual PC, at least that I can think of.

Hope thats helped

Rgds

Paul

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

Dave — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:14:39 GMT

Great! I've got VPC, a laptop, and a Wacom tablet. All I need now is a copy of that there XP Tablet Edition. Thanx.

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

VPC User — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:13:25 GMT

Why is Microsoft so "tight-gripped" on the Tablet PC OS? Isn’t it a second CD on-top of the XP Pro installation? I would love to install the Tablet OS as a guest OS in the Virtual PC, but my EULA (and Tablet PC 2005 restore CDs) won't allow that.

Any suggestions for persons like me with desire for the Tablet PC 2005 as a guest OS?

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

Paul — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:11:50 GMT

Hi VPC User,

Have you seen the following page

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/sitpcdep.mspx

It details how to create a slipstreamed installation, or get the tablet os part into an existing Windows XP Pro Sysprepped image (as long as its SP1 or higher).

So as long as you have licences, go forth and conquer :)

Rgds

Paul

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

VPC User — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:41:26 GMT

Thanks Paul! :0)

re: Running Windows XP Tablet Edition under Virtual PC

VPC User — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:42:20 GMT

Thanks Paul! :0)