Sorry, Goobus and Tim, I do have SP3. My mind was on XP so I goofed up
and didn't say that. Thanks.
There are several versions:
Original VPC 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...02-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en
(31,138KB 32 bit download)
VPC 2007 SP1 (this is probably standalone, and can be used immediately. You don't
need the previous one to use this.)
The name of the file I used is MSVirtualPC2007SP1-setup.exe. I might
have renamed it a little bit but I didn't change PC2007SP1, and it's
33,260,072 bytes long and I dl'd from an MS site.
I think this is a little shorter than mine. Maybe I can finally use
my hex calculator (bought after my job responsibilities changed, and
they never changed back.
) Okay, I couldn't figure out how it
worked.
Okay, I multiplied 32,481KB by 1024 and got 33,260,544,
so yours is 472 bytes bigger, but maybe that's because of rounding.
So let me try yours. Yeah, it's the very same length.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...13-8D35-410F-8896-FE668F885CA0&displaylang=en
KB969896 Security patch (I don't even have that one!!!)
(Hotfix rollup package for Virtual PC 2007 Service Pack 1: February 20, 2009)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958162
(24,160KB 32 bit download)
My VPC 2007 startup times increased dramatically, after adding 958162 to SP1.
It says: "Improvement 1
The Virtual PC 2007 support matrix is extended to include the
following SKUs:
* Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
* Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3 (SP3)
* Windows Vista Home with Service Pack1 (SP1)
These additional SKUs were not supported before this hotfix. These
Home SKUs are currently supported in this hotfix rollup. Additionally,
the following SKUs are supported as guest operating systems:
* Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
* Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3 (SP3)"
Does that mean without this hotifx rollup package it won't run on
XPHome Sp3?
Or do you mean, when you say it got slower, that I shouldn't install
it unless I have to?
In fact, I don't really need VM at all until I migrate to XP Pro,
where like I say, I've already installed it. I was just doing it in
advance to practice, since I didn't finish in XP Pro and didn't
understand some of the terms or what I was to do. (And the basement
is not conducive to long working sessions, so I thought I would try it
on the current machine, upstairs where it's warm and cozy and I have a
decent desk.
Maybe I should just wait until I get to xp Pro
I can see some DHCP activity in my network log, while the program is starting.
Implying your startup time for the VPC 2007 program itself,
may be proportional to how many virtual machines are in your
menu. That wasn't happening with just the SP1 version.
I expect to have only one VM in my menu, win98, at least for a long
time.
As to
In any case, give the SP1 download a try. Make sure the "bitness" of
the download, matches your OS. I have WinXP 32 bit and so I use the
32 bit (host) download.
In terms of VT-x support (hardware virtualization in the processor), some
processors don't have it. I tested on a system without hardware support,
and one with support, and it makes little different. Some Linux OSes crash,
due to some paravirtualization code running in the kernel. Toggling the
setting for hardware virtualization in VPC 2007 can fix that. I haven't
kept detailed records, of which OS works with which setting. It's just a
nuisance and makes no difference to performance. Any Windows OS you run,
probably won't have nearly as much trouble. Microsoft has engineered things,
so running Linux is a "second class experience".
If figures. That was going to be next, but by then I'll have a
separate machine for that, probably, or it's own partition, mulitboot,
no VM. Right now I need VM because it says in the computer
documentation taht it won't run win98.
If you run Linux,
you'll be crafting custom xorg.conf files in no time :-( To get
around the "no support for 24 bit mode" problem. And the Linux people,
haven't exactly been going out of their way, to ensure their stuff
runs well in a virtual environment (sound sucks, in the distros of the
last few years - some Linux movie players are OK, others aren't, and
the virtual environment isn't helping matters).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
Paul
Thanks a lot, Paul, and Goobus and Tim.
