I am running Vista64 as the host for Win XP in Virtual PC 2007 SP1. I want to store my files on the host machine and just access them from the virtual pc. I access the files on the Host through a network share over the loopback adapter. Everyone has read access to the share and in the VPC the share is mapped to the U:\ drive letter. ...
I'm running VPC 2007 and the OS is windows 3.1 I need to copy a C++ compiler from my real computer to the virtual one. How do I do this, it doesn't seem to read the .iso that I made. I don't have a floppy drive since I'm using a laptop. ...
I have found articles saying this is possible, but what are the issues? Is it 'always' straightforward as shutting down your vpc and then opening it with vmware? From this link which is nearly 3 years old it says you can but you have to copy some windows files into the vpc before shutting it down, is that still valid? Update 1 Found t...
I know that VPC does not officially support Linux, but I was wondering if there are any ways to get things similar to the VM additions so that I can get: 1) A higher screen resoultion than 800x600 2) Faster graphics, no jerkey movements 3) Drag and Drop support Number 3 really isn't that important but it would be nice. ...
http://www.petri.co.il/virtual_creating_differencing_disks_with.htm I followed these steps to create a "Differencing Disks" of the WSSv3 demo VHD from microsoft. Well some time has passed, forgot that it was a "differencing" disk and upon defragging, the VUD (Virtual Undo Disk) expanded to consume the remainder of the free space on my...
I've developed few little Sharepoint application on Microsoft Virtual PC but now we start a new and bigger project on Sharepoint. What do you think? Should we switch from VPC to VMWare (Server?) or there is no significant performance differences? (Developer's hardware: notebook with external hard drive, 2GB memory, Core 2 Duo) ...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en The IE6/7/8 XP SP3 images made available for testing from Microsoft are set to expire tomorrow(!) April 30. I'm a little concerned that Microsoft has not posted new images up yet since I use these fairly often as an easy way...
After having had a dev PC HD corrupt, I'm considering the idea of making my development environment be fully Virtual PC based. The core items would be: - XP Pro 32 - IIS - VS2003 - VS2008 - SQL Server 2005 - Office 2003 Primary source would reside on a server in SVN with only a clocal copy on the VPC. This would be for Windows based we...
Hello, I have created an ASP.NET application on my local machine. In order to test this application in IE 6, I have created a VPC. I am trying to connect to this web application through the VPC. However, I cannot connect to it. I can however connect to the internet. What am I doing wrong? ...
Hi, I would like to setup amazon 's VPC gateway to my server. I do not have CISCO or JUNIPER Router. Found this one the web : http://kenai.com/projects/osolvpc/pages/Home for OpenSolaris. Anyone tried to build this on linux Thnks ...
Hi. I develop an application, which automates some simple tasks inside Virtual PC. Now I faced with problem: I can't figure out how I can manipulate mouse inside VPC. I do something like this: HWND hDW = (HWND)0x000B03E0; // handle to virtual machine screen int x = 70; int y = 130; SendMessage(hDW, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, MK_LBUTTON, MAKE...
I have set up a virtual PC (XP SP3) for executing automation developed in VBA. This automation creates an object of few Dlls developed in C# and VB.Net. But when I execute the automation using this VPC machine; the required objects does not get created and automation fails. Please let me know what could be the reasons for the same and ho...
Is it possible to test Windows 2008 server via VPC when my host of a Windows 7 machine? I don't see anywhere where it says this is possible? The only VPC images (Windows 2008 R2) that I download from Microsoft state that the host machine must be Windows 2008. Is there an alternative? ...
No matter which type of android virtual device I create from the Android SDK and AVD Manager, whenever I start it, my entire laptop just shuts down after getting the blue screen of death. I see this error in the Event system Log ("Driver VPCAppSv.sys has been blocked from loading.") but not sure if it's related to it or not. Anyone ha...
Hi all, following situation: I am running a MSSQL Server 2005 on a virtual pc. The vpc(Windows Server 2003) and my host system(Windows 7) are connected with a loopback network adapter. I can ping the vpc and I can access the web application running on the vpc. But I am not able to connect to the database from my host system with Sql Ma...
it looks like the size of the virtual private cloud is 24 hosts - is that correct? ...
I currently have 20 Windows VMs that are running on Amazon EC2. There are LOTS of people in the company that need ad-hoc RDP access to each one of these boxes. Occassionally I also run Unix instances, which again tend to have a lot of ad-hoc SSH access from a large number of users. So now I have a problem... When these boxes run within ...
I sell a product that runs on Amazon EC2. A company now wants to purchase and install it within their perimeter... This also implies the use of a VPN connection to the EC2 datacenter. I want to test my product using Amazon VPN (VPC) before handing over the code. Must I change my code to make it work across VPC? If I run on Windows, the...