How I can install correctly Virtual PC on Windows Vista

[Guest]

I´ve installed Windows Vista build 5384, but when I try to install Virtual PC
for support intentions the installation wizard show me "This version is not
supported on your operating system, is only certificated for Windows 2000
Professional and Windows XP Professional", but how I told before, I need
install this software, because I need for support intentions with my users
and clients.

 

[Tom Scales]

I´ve installed Windows Vista build 5384, but when I try to install Virtual
PC
for support intentions the installation wizard show me "This version is
not
supported on your operating system, is only certificated for Windows 2000
Professional and Windows XP Professional", but how I told before, I need
install this software, because I need for support intentions with my users
and clients.

Then put it on your primary production machine, not your Vista test machine.
Obviously, if you're supporting users, you are doing this on a spare
machine.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for nothing, by the way, if you need how to do this, finding the
answer with someone who knows about, ACTK....

 

[Tony Hoyle]

Thanks for nothing, by the way, if you need how to do this, finding the
answer with someone who knows about, ACTK....

He's absolutely correct.

You should not even be *thinking* of installing a beta OS on a machine
that is used to support customers.

If you have done so then go back to XP before your boss finds out &
you're in a whole heap of trouble.

As for Virtual PC - what part of "This version is not supported on your
operating system" is ambiguous?

Tony

 

[Dave Hampson]

BNCR,

Give me a bit of time and let me see if I can get it to work. This will be
interesting. Running VPC on Vista which is itself running on a VMWare
Virtual Machine.

I'll post again once I've tried a few things.

TowerDave

P.S. **jumping on his soapbox** If you aren't going to answer someone's
request for help, and instead just bash them for what you THINK that they
are doing, it would be more helpful if you would not post. There are plenty
of apps that throw a message that this version of Windows is not supported
when you try to run them in Vista, but there are workarounds for some. Let's
see if we can find one, instead of playing Vista Police. Nothing is worse
than asking a question and instead of answers, all you get is grief.

Ok, I'm off my soapbox now. Flame away.

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

BNCR,

Give me a bit of time and let me see if I can get it to work. This will be
interesting. Running VPC on Vista which is itself running on a VMWare
Virtual Machine.

I'll post again once I've tried a few things.

TowerDave

P.S. **jumping on his soapbox** If you aren't going to answer someone's
request for help, and instead just bash them for what you THINK that they
are doing, it would be more helpful if you would not post. There are
plenty of apps that throw a message that this version of Windows is not
supported when you try to run them in Vista, but there are workarounds for
some. Let's see if we can find one, instead of playing Vista Police.
Nothing is worse than asking a question and instead of answers, all you
get is grief.

Ok, I'm off my soapbox now. Flame away.

You make a valid point. The past two weeks have been a long month in this
ng, what with people trying to upgrade Linux to x64 Vista and the whole
laptop-in-the-freezer incident and all, so yeah, Tom may be a little
stressed. But jeez-oh-pete, people need to relax , get a grip and learn to
laugh a bit, too.

Still, it's one thing for me to run a dual-boot on my personal notebook; I
wouldn't consider it at all to put a Beta ANYTHING on a unit that is mission
critical. Not even Google Earth, or Skype. Too many things can go wrong.
Call me paranoid, or read the horror stories here.

 

[Tom Scales]

You make a valid point. The past two weeks have been a long month in this
ng, what with people trying to upgrade Linux to x64 Vista and the whole
laptop-in-the-freezer incident and all, so yeah, Tom may be a little
stressed. But jeez-oh-pete, people need to relax , get a grip and learn
to laugh a bit, too.

Still, it's one thing for me to run a dual-boot on my personal notebook; I
wouldn't consider it at all to put a Beta ANYTHING on a unit that is
mission critical. Not even Google Earth, or Skype. Too many things can
go wrong. Call me paranoid, or read the horror stories here.

OK, I was sarcastic, but WAY too many people have, in the last few weeks,
put Vista on to machines they should not have. A production support machine
has no business running Vista. Period.

 

[Dave Hampson]

Ok, I installed VPC inside Vista. When I got the message stating "This
version is not supported.." I just clicked OK and it let me finish the
installation. I then created a virtual machine and started it up but nothing
is happening on the screen, no errors or anything. The HD/CD/Floppy/Network
lights in the lower left aren't flashing either, so literally nothing is
happening. I'm not quite sure why that is, without doing some
troubleshooting. It could also be because I'm running Vista inside VMWare at
the moment. It also could be because I don't have a CD in the virtual
drive. I tried attaching to the VistaVM's CD drive which was pointed to the
ISO for Vista. No dice. I'll have to keep working on that.

TowerDave

P.S. I have been in Tech Support/Help Desk for the past 8.5 years. I do all
kinds of crazy things on my machine to support my users, because I can fix
my machine. Like Jerry Pournelle says "I do all these crazy things so you
don't have to" and that includes installing all kinds of crazy combinations
of software to troubleshoot issues. I also use Virtual Machines. My point
was, we have no idea what machine BNCR has this installed on. It may be a
second machine at their desk that is not in "production." It may be a VM. It
may be their primary machine. If they want to do that, it's their decision.
The question was, can I install VPC in Vista, and the answer is, yes.
Does it work? Not sure yet.

And as Forrest Gump says...That's all I've got to say about that.