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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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How to access SQL Server 2005 FROM a guest XP OS running in Virtual PC

I am running as my Host OS - Win 7 x64 and running an instance of SQL Server 2005 (developer, x64). I am also running an instance of Virtual PC XP and am trying to connect to the Host OS Sql Instance without alot of luck. I can ping the Host from…
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how to make better use of the coding platform if 800MB out of 4GB RAM is not used?

My coding platform is a Vista machine with 4GB RAM. And while the machine is slick, I know there are 800MB of RAM that is not used at all. (only about 3.2GB or 4GB is used). can I installed something to help my platform for coding? I think Wubi…
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Using Vista under a Virtual Machine for testing apps

Does anyone know how to install a Vista UPGRADE edition to a virtual machine? Id like to use it for testing with older versions of .NET, but it wont let me install the upgrade version. I'd rather not have to install XP and then Upgrade it. Its a…
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How to read and write a virtual hard disk when it is opened by another application

How to read and write a "virtual hard disk" when it is opened by "another application"? virtual hard disk - referring to hard disk that are created by a virtualization application (e.g. Virtual PC, Virtual Box, VMware Player) another application -…
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Virtual PC LAMP Server

I have a mirror of a RedHat6 LAMP server setup locally on my development machine (XP pro) for testing. I am trying to configure it so I can connect to it. However I am having problems. I've given the image a static IP address of 192.168.1.5. The…
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Virtual PC 2007 host is 64 bit XP Pro - guest is 32 bit XP Pro - cannot access shared folder

I've Googled, I've Caspol to death, but I still cannot load a VS2008 solution from a drive on the host machine. I get the project location not trusted message. When I try: Caspol -q -machine -addgroup 1 -url file://d:/* FullTrust -name "D…
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How to install multiple version of IE (IE6,7) on virtual pc

I want to use ie7 on windows virutal pc, but to no avail. Below is what I have done. I downoaded and installed three files from the link…
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Looking for Virtual PC or VMware Guest O/S with Linux already installed

I wanted to play around with Linux and do some testing. I've tried installing Linux on a Virtual PC (2004) guest but couldn't get it to work. I figured with all the folks out there proselytizing about Linux maybe someone had made an guess file that…
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Can't load SSL sites using Microsoft Virtual PC Windows XP / IE 6 Image

I'm trying to test my site in IE 6 using Microsoft's Win XP / IE 6 virtual machine image, but I'm unable to load any SSL site in either IE 6 or Firefox 2 inside of the virtual machine. Outside of the VM all sites load as expected, but inside it…
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Best Self-Hosting Solution for TFS 2010?

I want to install TFS 2010 on my own machine - a Dell Laptop with 8GB RAM, running Windows 7. Now, since installing on Win7 means I can't run SharePoint or Reports, and I don't want to reformat my machine to Win 2008, I need to virtualize. I would…
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How to mount Microsoft Virtual PC filesystem in .NET means?

In my C# 3.5 program I would like to access NTFS/FAT drives from MS Virtual PC machine. I can see some C++ API for Virtual PC on the Microsoft site, but cannot find .NET one (should I use P-Invoke?). I would like to examine files and folders within…
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VirtualPC: Can't boot into anything

I am playing around with VirtualPC and following Phil Haack's instructions for how to get ubuntu (because why not?) running on it. I start up my virtual pc and during boot it just stays on the line that says DHCP..... Capturing the ubuntu iso…
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Virtual PC on XP

Is there a version of Virtual PC 6 that i can run on XP? And where can i download it from? Like thisone: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx, but this is only for windows 7.
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Windows XP mode in Win 7 - Do I need to install an antivirus?

I already run NAV 2011 in my Windows 7 machine. Do I need to install it on the virtual XP machine too?
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IE7 comes up blank on Virtual PC

I'm having to troubleshoot a website in IE7 (I currently have IE8 installed on my machine). I've installed Virtual PC and the IE7-on-XPSP3.exe file, but when I run the virtual machine, open IE7, and direct it to any page, it returns a blank screen.…
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