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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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Running Selenium Tests in Virtual PC

I am creating test scripts in Visual Studio IDE using Selenium RC and executing them thru NUnit. In order to run these tests on Virtual PC, what would I need to do. What all would I need to have on the Virtual machines? Only NUnit or even…
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Best Virtual Development Platform for .NET 3.5 Development

I have basically succumbed to the fact that if you are a hardcore computer user, you will have to reimage your computer every few months because something bad happened. Because of this, I bought imaging software and then really got into imaging. I…
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Virtual PC Hard Disk spanning multiple files?

I've spent the past few hours searching, but can't seem to find the answer. Hopefully somebody here knows. I want to use Virtual PC 2007 to create a virtual machine, but I'd like the hard disk for the VM to be on a USB hard drive. I'm not worried…
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How to speed up sharepoint development in Virtual PC?

I am developing sharepoint (MOSS) project in Virtual PC. Unfortunately virtual PC can utilize only one core of my quad core machine. Are there any tips & tricks which can speed my development process?
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What impact does "duplicate name exists on the network" error have for a virtual machine?

I have a project where multiple developers are using a copy of the same windows Virtual PC image (W2K3 SE SP2). Because our solution is tied to the machine-name (less than ideal, i know) all of the developers have the same machine name. We use a…
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Loop Syntax error in MS-DOS 6.22

I'm trying a script to get the last modified date on a virtual PC running MS DOS 6.22. But whenever I find a solution which includes a loop, it shows syntax error in the console. Here's one of the lines that shows this : for /d %%a in ("C:\log")…
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Get Date in batch file (Virtual PC) and use the variable in xcopy /D:date

I need to schedule a daily save from a virtual machine running on Dos 6.22, and to do so I need to stock the date variable and use it to do a differential backup. Otherwise the backup operation would take too much time, since it will copy the same…
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How to connect 2 virtual hosts running on the same machine?

I have 2 virtual hosts running on my Windows XP laptop. One is Ubuntu running inside vmware player. The other is MS virtual PC (so I can test with IE6 ). The Ubuntu virtual host is running my web application with apache. I can point my browser…
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NTFS-compressing Virtual PC disks (on host and/or guest)

I'm hoping someone here can answer these definitively: Does putting a VHD file in an NTFS-compressed folder on the host improve performance of the virtual machine, diminish performance, or neither? What about using NTFS compression within the…
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Virtual PC 2007 as programming environment

I'd like to create a VM in Virtual PC 2007 for use as a development environment/sandbox for an existing ASP.NET application in Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005 (and VSS for source control). I'm thinking that I need to create a 'base' copy of the…
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Virtual PC high CPU usage problems

I run VPC 2007 on my Vista business laptop with 4 gig RAM. I use VPC to run windows XP and maintain a VS2003 web project. At first everything was great. I assigned the VPC 512MB and did my work as usual. I also run Resharper and Visual SVN. …
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Use NirCmd to pass a key press into XP virtualpc

I am converting a VirtualBox XP image to Virtual PC. When booting up, the XP image is going through the Found New Hardware Wizard. At this point in the process, VirtualPC does NOT pass in the mouse or keyboard. So I am using a script to run…
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MS Access Command Line Args Not Working In Virtual PC

My associate is using Win 7 Pro 64bit, and running an MS Access 2003 application in a Virtual PC (setup as Win XP). It appears that the Access command line arguments are being ignored: both /cmd [myString], and /decompile. Although not a crucial…
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Proxy to re-route web requests

When running an ASP.NET web application on a local development machine, e.g. http://devmachine:1234, I would like to connect to that machine from a virtual pc that uses different browsers. As far as I know the development webserver only serves…
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WP8 SDK on a virtual machine?

I have a HP EliteBook 8560p with 4GB ram and a 2,5Ghz i5-2450M processor running windows 7. My question is: will I be able to run the WP8 SDK on a virtual mashine running W8 that i give 3GB ram to or will it be to slow? The system requirements for…
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