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1. dr.bisho

   
   Posted on: March 04, 2007 at 7:45AM  

   hai guys i have ma suse linux live cd(which i can easily run it (bootable) from dos) but the problem is i tried 2 get it 2 work on virtual pc 2007 ,,, it loads and evrything but interface doesnt start y do u think da problem is so:

   my system: vista ultimate

   3400 ht intelp4 intel mb 1gb ram 256video card
2. dr.bisho

   
   Posted on: March 04, 2007 at 7:46AM  

   btw all drivers are digitaly signed and evrythin is workin as cool as it should b (just like da adrenaline stimulator...ned 4 speed most wanted) so i dnt thin it has anythin 2 do with drivers
3. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: March 05, 2007 at 1:11AM  

   Sidebar Geek and dsharp9000 wouldnt it be great if Apple did allow OSX on a standard PC.  Then we all wouldnt be forced to buy their expensive pretty boxes.  Sure Apple makes nice hardware, but it would be nice to have OSX on a home built machine.  The competition would improve Vista and OSX, as people could make comparisions on identical home built harware.

   Also maybe some of the license terms in Vista are anticompetitive, if thats the case then Microsoft will get sued at some point by vmware, parrells or whoever else thinks this is the case.  That company can stop selling products and sue for damages, or sell their products with features that may infringe on a Microsoft EULA telling consumers that they will accept liability for license violations and eventually everything will be settled by the mature people who settle these things and the lawyers will be richer.

   In any event best to download Virtual PC 2007 now before any legal issues form, while it is free and enjoy it.

   The way the industry is headed, virtualisation is the future and thus EULA's will change as companies decide how to word their agreements so as to give consumers fair rights, businesses fair rights, while protecting their own software and not infringing the rights of the competition.  Sounds like a hard job writing an EULA, bet it pays well, since its really the agreement that ultimately protects your bottom line as a software company.
4. dare2try

   
   Posted on: March 09, 2007 at 1:04PM  

   I just started using Vista Home Premium on my laptop. Still working my way through all the Vista features. One thing I have tried is installing Virtual PC 2007 then creating a VM for Server 2003. Everything seemed to work well, but I can get the VP/Srvr to connect to the network. I  understand VP 2007 is not "officially" supported on Vista Home Premium, but I cannot believe I got this far to be foiled. Any help would be appreciated.
5. dsharp9000

   
   Posted on: March 10, 2007 at 1:03AM  

   newsscientist,

   Unsure what you mean "wouldnt it be great if apple did allow osx on a standard Pc. Then we wouldnt be  "forced" to by their expensive pretty boxes".  

   I can only assume that you mean that apple is not making there operating system available to pc's so microsoft has every right to also "force" apple users to also use windows as their host", thereby, eliminating apple.

   You also state maybe the license terms in vista are anticompetitive and thus microsoft will be sued in court.  

   First, as to you saying apple not "forcing" us to buy there expensive alternative, microsoft is "forcing" us to buy there "expensive" alternative and eliminating apple as an option as a host.  Further, your comment does not address linux users who commonly use vm's to run windows applications so as to ensure interoperability between systems.  Now linux users will be "forced" also to use windows as there host.   Essentially, every pc that exist in the future will be "forced" to have windows as its host operating system --- to me, something is wrong with that.

   Second, I hope it does not come down to a court thing as we all saw what happened with netscape at it was essentially eliminated and nothing happened to microsoft other than "explorer" became a required part of the operating system according to microsoft --- something i still question and still something I wish they would seperate from the operating system as I think it creates a bunch of security problems.  

   I agree with you that virtualization is the future; however, am concerned that microsoft's current policy is tied into other concerns with the protected content industry (mpaa) that make it an impossibility for virtualization to continue to exist in the present sense.  There was no reason to place high costs and limitations for use of vista other than to eliminate all compitition or to address the content providers concern -- which has the same effect of eliminating all compitition.  There should be concern that mpaa is now dictating what technologies can or cannot exist only on basis that the technology represents a mere threat to protected content even though such technology really has nothing to do with the protection of content.

   P. S. Dare2try --- love your name as you are using vista home premium --- my concern is that in future somehow my "vista home premium in a vm" could suddenly be disabled through software by microsoft as it would be there right to do so under license agreement.    
6. dsharp9000

   
   Posted on: March 10, 2007 at 1:15AM  

   Dare2try-

   misread your comment --- believe you are trying to run server 2003 in a vm using vista home premium as a host --- thought you were trying to run vista home premium in vm ----unsure as to support issue with server 2003 in vm under vista home premium???? --- perhaps nick can help with this
7. Brandon LeBlanc

   

   
   Posted on: March 12, 2007 at 11:48PM  

   Running Windows Server 2003 on Virtual PC 2007 on Windows Vista Home Premium is not a supported scenerio therefore Microsoft cannot guarantee it will work.

   Virtual PC 2007 only supports Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition as host operating systems.

   Windows Vista Home Premium is not a supported host operating system.
8. paulfp

   
   Posted on: March 18, 2007 at 6:21PM  

   I would very much appreciate it if Microsoft could explain why there is no USB support in Virtual PC 2007. I hadn't bothered reading the comments on this post and have had no real reason to join in until today; I just spent almost 2 hours installing XP to virtual PC to use a USB device that isn't yet supported on Vista, then I discovered that USB doesn't work. I wish I'd known that before I started!!

   I'm off to try VMWare....
9. Nick White

   
   Posted on: March 20, 2007 at 2:27PM  

   Hey paulfp:  I'd suggest you pose this question to Ben Armstrong on his blog, found at http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/ -- he ought to be able to provide a better answer than I could.
10. profvonhelsing

    
    Posted on: March 26, 2007 at 5:46PM  

    when I try to install virtual PC on my vista business 64bit, it has an error saying unsupported 16bit installer?????, I have download the 64 bit version. any one know what is going on?