Problem with Virtual PC

[Bascom King]

Hello - I realize that this is not the proper place for this question but I
can't seem to find the right newsgroup. Anyway, I am running the Microsoft
Virtual PC program on a Vista home Premium laptop and a XP home desktop. In
both of these machines when I attempt to install a virtual OS, I keep
getting the message "Reboot and Select proper boot Device or insert Boot
Media in selected
Boot device". Pressing enter with the OS disc in the drive starts the disc
spinning but ends up with this same message. Now, Microsoft says that Vista
Home Premium and XP Home won't support Virtual PC but I have read from other
sources that it does work with these OS's. Can someone shed some light on
this for me?

Thanks,
Bascom King

 

[Chris Denny]

I know it works, because I use it to run XP on Vista HP, other than deleting
the all the virtual disks and try again.
I also use Virtual Box and it has more features and more options then VM. I
download VB and use that
Good luck to you.

Chris

 

[steve]

Hello - I realize that this is not the proper place for this question but I
can't seem to find the right newsgroup. Anyway, I am running the Microsoft
Virtual PC program on a Vista home Premium laptop and a XP home desktop. In
both of these machines when I attempt to install a virtual OS, I keep
getting the message "Reboot and Select proper boot Device or insert Boot
Media in selected
Boot device". Pressing enter with the OS disc in the drive starts the disc
spinning but ends up with this same message. Now, Microsoft says that Vista
Home Premium and XP Home won't support Virtual PC but I have read from other
sources that it does work with these OS's. Can someone shed some light on
this for me?

Thanks,
Bascom King

hi,i am currrently running vista prem 32bit and run virtual pc and run
server2003,xp and other OS that you will most likly be aware with but dont
want mention name on here as not sure how strict they are on here, but when
installing you got make sure the virtual pc has control over ur CD drive
otherwise virtaul pc will not see it, if you are still stuck dop me an email
and i will help best i can