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Virtual PC is a virtualization program that simulates a hardware environment using software. It is currently developed by Microsoft and intended for use on Windows.

Virtual PC is software that hosts virtual machines (which use software to simulate real hardware). It is designed for the Windows operating system, and is currently developed by Microsoft.

For Windows 7, there is a special version of Virtual PC called "Windows XP Mode" that can be used to run legacy software designed for Windows XP in a special compatibility environment. It is available free of charge for customers with qualifying versions of Windows 7.

Older versions of Virtual PC were released for the Mac OS, and allowed it to run Windows-based software under an virtualized Windows installation. They were chiefly developed and maintained by Connectix, before the software was acquired by Microsoft.

More information about the history and implementation of Virtual PC is available on Wikipedia.

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What is a faster way to backup and restore a MySQL DB than mysqldump? (faster than 4 hours)

We have a database that is about 3GB (in text) after mysqldump is used to dump a text representation of it, and then mysql < mysqlstatement.sql is used to restore the database. But it takes 4 hours. Is there a way to quickly back up / restore…
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How do I get the Virtual Machines folder on Win7?

I'm writing a tool called XP-More, which should help manage Windows 7 Virtual Machines. The first thing the tool has to do when launched is find the VM folder. However, turns out that folder is not listed as a Windows Special Folder. I use a…
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How do I get VS2010 in XPMode to see SQL server running on the host Win7 OS?

HI, I've got Windows XP Mode running on Wndows 7 Professional x64. I have an instance of SQL 2008 running on Windows 7 which I would like my copy of VS2010b2 Pro running inside WinXPMode to see. However, I cannot figure out the right combination…
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Whats the best way to get started with server virtualization?

We recently bought a new rack and set of servers for it, we want to be able to redeploy these boxes as build servers, QA regression test servers, lab re-correlation servers, simulation servers, etc. We have played a bit with VMWare, VirtualPC,…
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Is there a way (API/Scripting) to work with Virtual PC?

Is there a way to interact with Virtual PC1? Looking to do basic things like startup and shutdown (with choice of save or turn off etc..) specific VM's. Any solution other than simulating key presses would be fine, for…
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Path Not Found error when opening VB6 project from a shared folder on Virtual PC 2007 (XP sp3)

I currently work on a small software team that primarily maintains legacy software. I am trying to set up a Virtual PC that we can use to do this maintenance. Specifically, I would like to be able to debug and run VB6 web apps from a folder on the…
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Copying file from PC to VPC?

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.
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Copied virtualPC files, what do I have to change in settings?

I copied the two files from another VM, the vm machine setting file and the vm hard disk. How can I make it show up in the Virtual PC Console? What changes do I have to make in the settings? i.e. opening it up, it seems it is still referencing the…
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Copying a virtualPC vm

How do I clone an existing virtualPC (2007) vm ? I am setting up my development environment and want to clone it, and also keep one as a backup that has all my baseline installs.
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Unable to map serial port when using virtual PC 2007 SP1

I'm writing an application that communicates with the serial port to control a device. The development environment is on a virtualized Windows 2003 R2 machine hosted on a Windows Vista machine. When I try to map the COM ports through virtual PC so…
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COM port communication with Virtual PC (part 2)

This question is related to my earlier question. Connecting to the pipe is now successful, but I still cannot read (or write) any data from the port. My first guess was, that the data are buffered. But even when I write (on the client site) 5000…
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COM port communication with Virtual PC

I am testing an application that uses the COM-Port. The application is running in Virtual PC. I have set up the Virtual PC settings to use the named pipe \.\pipe\mypipe for COM1-Port. Now I am trying to communicate with this named pipe using…
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how to detect if my program is running under "windows xp mode" under windows 7

Background: Windows-xp mode of windows-7 does not give full windows instance (unlike VMWare virtual machine instance). There are restrictions on writing files to 'c:/Program Files' etc, which comes into effect when user is installing our software…
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TCP traffic can't be routed from guest to host on Windows hosting Solaris 10 on Virtual PC

I boot the machine and immediately issue a ping command to the VPC guest OS (Solaris 10). I use the ping -t 10.3.6.63 (windows) command so that the ping continues on the windows machine. This is what I get "Reply from 10.3.6.63: Destination host…
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Allow mobile access to an InfoPath form on a forms server/sharepoint instance

Before I begin asking this question I will have to warn you that I know next to nothing about SharePoint and I'm basically learning as I go along. Here's where I am right now: I have a virtual pc with an instance of SharePoint and windows server…
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