Virtual PC 2004 (or 2007) & WinXP home edition

[Guest]

Microsoft FAQ page for Virtual PC 2004 or 2007 list WinXP Professional as a
suitable host OS for VPC. No mention of WinXP Home edition! Will VPC 2004
or 2007 work with WinXP Home with SP2? I am thinking of installing DOS 6.2
on the VPC and running the DOS version of Quick Basic V4.5 on it. Hopefully
QB V4.5 will be able to read and write to the parrallel (IEEE 1284) and
serial (RS-232) ports. I could install Win98 first edition instead or also.

My PC is a Compaq Presario V2000 laptop with Celeron M, 40GB hard drive and
1 GB of RAM. The parallel port is a Quatech SPP-100 PCMCIA to IEEE 1284 card
and the serial port is a Radio Shack #26-183 USB to RS-232 adapter.

 

[createwindow]

Hi, I don't think so beacuse of subtle differences with networking in
XP Home.

I have not tried it though! It may install ok. Just run setup - what
happens?

Ah, yes the good old days of QB !

CreateWindow

 

[Guest]

This should probably be moved to the VPC topic...

VPC 2004 and 2007 work in XP Home (I used 2004, now 2007 that way). Some
things may not work right since XP Home and Pro differ in details. But for my
purpose it works fine. The setup program gives you a nasty message about not
supporting the platform, but it will work.

Virtual Server on the other hand ... NOT.

I use it with DOS 5 to run ORIGINAL Railroad Tycoon, which just does not
work (divide by zero error) in 98 and XP. Only problem is that the computer
is too fast - I need a speed control. Also tried Flight Sim 4 but that
didn't work. FS4, of course, was known at the time as the ultimate test for
PC hardware compatibility - any slight deviation from the IBM PC spec would
crash it, and VPC is apparently not quite a perfect (though generally good
enough) emulation of the old hardware.

-mjb