Windows 7 Virtualization Forum

Is it real or is it Memorex?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:00:39 Z

OK, here is the set up. you have a server somewhere in the server room of your company. Some servers in your company have Virtual Machines running on them. You know about the name of a "PC" and you are able to remote into the PC, you type in the username/passwrod, and you're in, on a remote desktop.
Question: How can you detect if you are logged into a regular PC or if you are logged into a Virtual Machine running on another PC?
Although a somewhat humorous situation, the question is serious. Thanks!

V2P: VHD to HDD

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:02:00 Z

Is there any way to recover a Bootable VHD to disk?
Restoring from WinRE or the Backup and Restore Center (BaRC) doesn't work as they only acknowledge BaRC VHDs.

Virtual PC KB958559 RTM install failed - Start Menu/Program Folder Permissions root cause

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:13:34 Z

Seems like a lot of people have been experiencing issues installing KB958559 in Win 7 RTM. My issues was that after installing in windows; rebooting and finalizing the installation it would "fail" at about 98% and then rollback.

In the event log I was getting "

Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070005: Update for Windows (KB958559)."

Upon digging in the "C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log" log I found that the issue was a permission error in putting the final shortcut into the Start Menu \Program folder. I don't know how the permissions got screwed up, but my username was the only one with access to "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs". To resolve this I cascaded the permissions for the folder one higher down to the program folder. You could probably also temporarily just add full access to 'everyone' until the install works.

The actual log file error incase anyone is searching is this:
009-10-09 23:01:55, Error CSI 00000020@2009/10/10:03:01:55.393 (F) CMIADAPTER: Inner Error Message from AI HRESULT = HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED)
[
[19]"Access is denied.
"
]
[gle=0x80004005]
2009-10-09 23:01:55, Error CSI 00000021@2009/10/10:03:01:55.393 (F) CMIADAPTER: AI failed. HRESULT = HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED)
Element:
[475]"<shortCut xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3" arguments="" destinationPath="$(runtime.startMenu)\Programs\Windows Virtual PC" destinationName="Virtual Machines.lnk" targetPath="%SystemRoot%\system32\vmwindow.exe" iconPath="%SystemRoot%\system32\VMCPropertyHandler.dll,-1009" windowStyle="normal" description="@%SystemRoot%\system32\VMCPropertyHandler.dll,-109" displayResource="%SystemRoot%\system32\VMCPropertyHandler.dll,100" appID="Windows.VirtualPC.UserInterface" />"

Any possible way to get NT4 to run on Windows Virtual PC?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:10:31 Z

I have a rather embarassing question. Have a development environment (for an old DSP processor) which runs in NT4.
I know nt4 was running in Virtual PC on an XP machine. I have to support this processor.

I just got a computer running windows 7 hoping that "Windows virtual PC" would be able to handle running nt4.
I tried it, it runs but there is no way to share drives or clipboard.
I had brought the vhd from the XP machine. Worked smoothly but could not get sharing to work.
Then I de-installed the "additions" from Virtual PC 2007 and tried to install the the additions for Window virtual PC as described in MS knowledge base.
Mouse rough- worse than ever and still no sharing.

However, Virtual PC 2007 doesn't run under W7.

Is my only solution to quit windows 7 and fall back to XP ( and use Virtual PC 2007) ?
Is there any hope that Windows Virtual PC additions will eventually support nt4?
Quite frustrating!

Current machine: sony vaio Z880, 2.5GHz,ram4G.
Thanks for your help
sisephus

Enabling integration features

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:40:25 Z

I am unable to get the integrations features running in Windows XP Mode. This is running on Win 7 Ultimate x64. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times with no success. I've even tried copying a VHD from another computer running an x86 version of Win 7 Ultimate. It worked on that box but no joy on the x64 box. I can see drives on the host machine through network neighborhood. Any help will be appreciated.

Memory for Xp Mode into Windows 7

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:10:18 Z

Hi,

I have a Dell Studio 1737 32-bit with Windows 7 ultimate english. I have 4 go shared . when i start xp mode, it takes only 1 go. Do you have a tweeking for takes more memory because its much too slow (and i know its 2 go t run xp mode).

Thanks

Switch input languages issue on Windows Virtual PC

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:10:32 Z

I have created a Windows 7 (guest) installation on Windows Virtual PC.

Both Windows 7 installations have several input languages installed and the same customized settings for switching between input languages:
1. Ctrl+Shift, for switching between input languages
2. Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, etc. key sequences, to directly switch to a specific language

When I try to switch input language using the Ctrl+n key sequence while the virtualized application is in focus (or even when in "Virtual PC" mode), the guest's input language does not change.

However, using the Ctrl+Shift key sequence to switch between input language works correctly.

Has anyone else noticed or resolved this?

Thanks in advance,

Yannis

Windows XP Mode Virtual Apps

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:40:12 Z

Each time I launch one of my published apps from XP Mode, I get the error - "Virtual Environment for launching applications has been closed. Start the application again." I have also had diffculty getting the integration features to run in XP Mode. Any ideas on what might be causing these errors and how I might fix it?

Virtual Machine fails to boot from CD

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:06:19 Z

Host machine Windows 7 x64, Guest machine Windows 7 x86.
Host CD/DVD drive attached to guest.
CD with bootable image inserted in Host CD/DVD drive.
Shutdown/Restart does not boot from CD.
Obviously the guest has booted before from the CD/DVD drive to instal the guest OS.
CD is bootable by the host machine natively.

Alan Cameron

How to Reconnect to a VM if the Connection Breaks?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:58:24 Z

Host: Windows 7 Ultiimate x64
Windows Virtual PC RTM
VM: Windows 7 Ultimate x86

I was working with a VM when the connection broke. (I didn't capture the error message.) According to Virtual PC the VM was still running.

I tried to connect to it via Virtual PC but it wouldn't do it and it didn't throw an error.

Finally I used RDP to connect to the VM. I told RDP to have the VM receive windows keys (i.e. Alt_tab, Ctl-Alt_Del) when in full screen mode. When I connected to the VM the machine was in full screen mode with the control bar at the top but without the options (i.e. Ctl-Alt-Del). I assumed that was because the integration features were not invoked. I tried a Ctl-Alt-Del but it was passed to the host.

I tried a number of things and finally issued a shutdown command from a cmd window. The VM logged me off and then hung. I assume it was wait for a response to something. I finally used Task Manager on the host to kill the VM process.

Is there anyway to reconnect to a VM using Virtual PC instead of RDP?

Publishing Applications From A Virtual Machine

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:06:06 Z

I am using Virutal PC to run a few VMs for testing products in specific environments -- mostly different vesions of Windows 7. I noticed that products (MS or third party) that I install on the VMs are available on the host's start menu under Windows Virtual PC\<Machine Description>. So, for example, if I have Office 2007 installed on a VM I can run any of the applicatons (i.e. Access 2007) from the Start Menu of the host.

I wanted to publish additonal applications that are on the VM.

I followed the instructions at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449407(WS.10).aspx but the shortcut does not show up. I also noticed that there are a number of folders in the common start menu that are not listed in the host's start menu under the VM.

Is there some extra step needed in a Windows 7 VM to publish an application so the host can run it in a window?

Windows XP mode - typing slow to show on screen

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:42:49 Z

Using XP Mode, when I type, it seems to fall behind me and then catches up and then falls behind.
It's as if typing on a terminal window over a network with high packet loss... It seems similar if I move things around the screen.

I have the latest nVidia video drivers. I tried lowering screen resolution and color depth. I tried raising the VM memory from 512MB to 1 GB, to no avail. I have a Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.10 gHz. 3 GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS. (HP 9700)

Any ideas?

Recover XP Mode from Bckup

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:14:52 Z

I have a new install of XP Mode and want to recover what XP mode was on a complete backup I hace, Is there a way to do that?

- Bill

Can xp mode play games?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:08:36 Z

can you play games on xp mode?

I have this game that works only on windows xp but now I have windows 7 so can I play that game in xp mode in windows 7?
Can I play it online in xp mode in windows 7?

urgent case --Cannot get the IP address when reboot system;

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:26:24 Z

Hi everyone,
i have meet the issue that machine new install the win7 ult 7600; it can't auto get the ip address when login to system ; but it can get after manual run the command "ipconfig /renew" ; after reboot machine ,it will repro again .what 's problem with it ?

Have any one meet the same issue and how to troubleshooting ? i will appreciate for your suggestions .
Thanks,

Xin Lan

Virtualization printer problem

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:18:56 Z

Dear community,

I have a Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) OS on a Lenovo Notebook and want to install the printer (SHARP AM-400) on it. Unfortunately, there aren't any Windows 7 or Windows Vista driver for it.

So one option for me to try out was to install Microsoft Virtual PC with XP-Mode, what I have already done. Now, with everything running I installed the driver on the XP Virtual machine but do not now how I can integrate it into the Windows 7 OS.

All integration features are set. I simply don't know how I can make it available to my Windows 7 Os.

Can somebody give me a step-by-step tutorial to it?

Thank you alot!

Nirwan

Windows XP mode/BIOS problems

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:08:00 Z

I'm not sure what's going on with my system, but I have Windows 7(64-bit), Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode all installed. When I try to boot up Windows XP mode, I get the error message saying that my BIOS needs to be changed to allow hardware-assisted virtualization. The strange thing is that I DO have it enabled. In fact, I went through the steps given to change my BIOS even though it didn't really need to be done...but still no luck. I have the latest BIOS version installed and am at a loss as to what's going on. If anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful.

How to create a virtual machine?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:36:51 Z

Yes, I did see the note about not discussing Virtual PC 2007. I'm still trying to figure out how to run the VPC's that I had previously used for testing and development, and also how to create new machines. If there is no way to do this in Windows 7, I'm gonna be sick. I'd have to go back to dual hard drives, have 2 separate installs of 2 different OS's - it pretty much makes Windows 7 pointless.

XP mode Freezes/Crashes Host

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:07:21 Z

I'm running the RTM of W7 Ent on a Dell D531 (AMD proc). Windows 7 runs great, installed VitualPC and XP mode. All bios hardware virtualization settings are on. XP mode start preping the machince and about a percent or 2 into the setup the host reboots. No errors in the system logs... nothing, just a reboot.

I've uninstalled, reinstalled several times with the same result. Also copied a working VPC 2007 VM hard drive running XP and the same issue occurs. Gets to the XP logo with bar moving across the bottom, couple seconds, and boom a reboot of the host.

After the initial reboot, another attempt either causes a reboot or freezes the entire host forcing a power down.

Looking for help here... I wouldn't expect a RC to crash the host regardless.

integration features fail

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:32:07 Z

When I try to enable the integration features it fails every time...any idea why?

thanks in advance.

Problem with wifi access to my D-Link router

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:16:23 Z

Hello.When I bought my HP notebook with Win 7 Home Premium,it had 3 netw.cards installed. r45-nic,wifi card and a somekind of virtual wifi-card (software from Windows?).Because laptop had a physical wifi-card installed (with driver and working) I believed that I don´t need the virtual one of wifi and deleted it (took aways).Now
I have managed to access internet via my D-Link wifi-router D-link 855, but not with my wifi-card Atheros AR 9285 812.11 b/g.
The router doesn´t connect or send to the wifi-card which is on.
Can it depend on the deleted virtual wifi? If this is a windows-add on to the system, why Windows don´t manage to load it again,when seeing that I don´t connect with the
wifi-card which is working- i.e. repair it automatically? Is there on net the possibility to download this virtual software again, or must I reinstall the whole system from secure dvd´s (in bios-set in: boot from dvd-drive(dvd´s) ? The ordinary win- reinstalling didn´t get this virtual wifi function back.

This is my first experience with wifi-cards and a notebook and I´m a bit dissatisfied. Fe. windows could have told me (when I was deleting the virtual function or "card") that don´t do it or refuced to to it when there is a physical wifi-card installed and it possibly needs this virtual one. Or do as it was in OS2 (IBM´s): repair the problem automatically...

Hopefully I can get this problem solved by minor installation- don´t like the long time and effort to install the whole system (win 7) from the scratch from sec-dvd´s.

yours AoS47

Installing Microsoft Office 2003 into Virtual XP Mode

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:24:32 Z

I installed Office 2003 in Windows Virtual XP Mode and it clobbered Windows 7 Office 2007. I mistakenly allowed the default location for Office 2003 and it turned out to be the same folder as Office 2007. I am not real technical so just assumed the default location was correct. I have since uninstalled Office 2007 and Office 2003 and re-installed Office 2007. I decided to install my scanner software into Virtual XP Mode and it ran successfully. It created a folder within Windows Virtual XP and everything is fine. When I insert my Office 2003 CD it does not create a separate folder. It wants to add the Office 2003 in the same folder as Office 2007.

I would appreciate any help anyone can provide. Thank you................Ralph

Windows Virtual PC - Windows 98 installation fails

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:31:21 Z

I've tried it a few times now: Windows 98SE installation in Windows Virtual PC fails.
I boot from the CD (.iso), fdisk + format the (virtual, 9000 MB, dynamic) HDD, copy the windows 98 folder on the virtual HDD and boot into DOS from the HDD.
Then I go to the win98 folder and start setup, it does look good in the beginning, but it fails after the reboot with the "wait 15 seconds to reboot or click here to reboot now" message window, is sticks at the "Windows 98" boot logo, if you hit a key the animation stops, the virtual machine is stopped and can only be powered off.
Normally it would display "updating configuration files" in the DOS before continuing Windows 98 setup (and then asking for name and company and keycode).
In the Virtual BIOS: APIC off/on and PnP OS off/on tried in all four possible combination.
No Network: Tried.

Uninstalling "Windows Virtual PC Windows6.1-KB958559-x64.msu", installing "Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1" (+ update KB 969856) and everything works perfect right out of the box.

Virtual machine settings (in both Virtual PC version):
512 MB RAM (also tried 384 MB RAM on Windows Virtual PC)
CD-ROM drive = .iso file, german Windows 98SE CD
9000 MB HDD

Host:
Phenom II 940 3.6 GHz (Virtualisation enabled in BIOS of course)
8 GB RAM
AMD 790GX Chipset
Radeon 4890 GFX card

Can anyone install Windows 98 in Windows Virtual PC?
If not, try Virtual PC 2007 and tell if you can do it there ?

Set

unable to add existing virtual images from virtual pc 2007 sp1 to windows 7 virtual pc

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:56:13 Z

I am using Windows 7 RTM. I am able to install virtual PC RC and XP mode successfully. However, I am not able to figure out how to add my images created in Virtual pc 2007 SP1. At some point. It told me that it cannot find any vhd file. (they were indeed on my hard drive). It seems that I do not know how to properly add an existing images.

Any comments?

XP Mode - Unable To Write To One Of Its Virtual Hard Disk

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:32:47 Z

Running 32 bit Windows 7 Professional with all updates. I am assuming if I can get the vhd that was installed to run I am going to see WinXP. When I try to run the vmc I get unable to write to hard disk error.

<Bill>

Xp mode program carryover

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:09:53 Z

I installed some programs under xp mode under the admin account, is there a way to make it show up under the other accounts that are set up? Thanks Michael

HELP with Application Pubishing to Windows 7 from XP Mode

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:33:38 Z

Hi all,
I'm running Windows 7 Pro and have downloaded the Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode from MS. The VM is running fine with one major exception - nothing is publishing to Windows 7 therefore I'm unable to launch applications from the Windows 7 Start Menu. I've manually added the shortcuts to the Start Menu for All Users in XP and still nothing. I've see screen shots on other sites with a folder titled "XP Mode Applications" that is supposed to be located in the Windows 7 Start Menu under the XP Mode folder - I don't see anything.
I've ensured that Auto Publish is enabled on the VM.

Looking for help!

Thanks,
fmhthree

Windows XP Mode and .NET 1.1

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:19:35 Z

I have a laptop running Windows 7 and Windows XP Mode. I need to install .NET 1.1 on the XP machine in order to run some old software. I understand that I need the "msi" version of this but all downloads I ahve tried so far fail with the "wrong program" error message. Where do I get the correct version of .NET from?

Can't print to network printer through "LPT1:" from MSDOS app in XP Mode

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:46:28 Z

Running Windows 7 and Virtual XP Mode. Need to run a DOS app that only knows printing on LPT1:. On XP Pro PC this was accomplished by sharing the network printer then "net use lpt1:"... on the shared port. In XP Mode I've shared the network printer that is available through the Windows 7 host. I use the command "NET USE LPT1: \\TSCLIENT\LJ2430" where "LJ2430" is the share name for the printer. I receive "System error 87 has occurred. The parameter is incorrect.". Any ideas for making this work or entirely different method for sharing a network printer on the LPT1 port. TIA.

Virtual PC XP Mode stopped (was working)

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:38:44 Z

It had been working fine.

Now when I try to open it (hibernated) it gives an error
"Cannot Enable Intergation devices..." asks " continue or retry"
hit retry, then goes to a black screen and hangs.

I cannot seem to be able to power down the virtual pc or gain access to it's bios.

Don't know if this caused the problem, but I had installed an usb to serial
adaptor (it installed and worked fine) earlier today (the problem occured when I went to
shut down virtual pc the first time after this install).

I tried to resored to a previous state (a couple of days earlier) and still the same.

I tried an over the top install of [WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe] and it says its already installed.

I had created a win98 virtual and it still works fine.

Any ideas?
Can I use the [WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe] to install an additional xp mode?

Thanks in Advance!
John

VPC and 64-bit Guest support...

Fri, 01 May 2009 20:28:58 Z

Will Windows Virtual PC support 64-bit guests? VMware's Workstation product has supported 64-bit guests for quite a while. Is this just a limitation of the Beta, or will the RTM offer 64-bit guest support?

W7x64 XPM Join a Domain (W2K)

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:08:36 Z

Am running W7x64 and XPM. I appear to have access to the internet via XPM, and have been "allocated" an Intel 21140 NIC, the real one is a Broadcom 57xx GigaBit. What exactly do I need to change within the XPM settings to enable me to join our W2K domain? The W7 IP address is 192.168.254.29, the server IP address is 192.168.254.199 (DNS also), the gateway IP address is 192.168.254.1. The XPM has an IP address of 192.168.131.65 (presumably from W7?).
Everytime I try and connect to the Domain, I get a message saying that the domain cannot be found, I can ping the server from within XPM.

Firewire (IEEE 1394) devices in Windows XP mode?

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:39:06 Z

Hi,
I have a Nikon slidescanner which uses a Firewire. It worked fine under Windows XP (32 bit). Unfortunately there are no (64bit) drivers available for Win 7.
Is it possible to connect firewire devices via Windows XP mode or other virtualisation? And how is it done?
Alternatively: can I install a dual boot system with win XP (32 bit) and Win 7 (64bit) without uninstalling Win 7 ????

Windows 7 Home Premium Virtualization possible?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:05:31 Z

I was told that with a separate XP license, which I have, that I could download and add virtualization to Windows Home Premium edition. My hardware is virtualization capable. Is that true that I can run virtualization within Vindows 7 Home Premium without doing a dual boot?

Dual-boot and Hyper-V issue

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:09:15 Z

I have dual boot Win7 & Win2K8r2 VHDs. Both work fine independently, but can't boot Win7 in Hyper-V - boot failure. Ideas?

Running Virtual PC Integration features without password

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:01 Z

I've created a new VPC with Win7 as both host and guest OS. I've also created a user without a password in both host and guest. When I enable the Integration Features I'm prompted for a username and password, I type in the username and blank password but it is not accepted. I can get around this by using passwords but I would rather not. How can I enable Integration Features without using a password?

Cheers,
Chris

Windows 7 XP Mode, USB problem

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:33:01 Z

I can see my USB printer in XP MOde under the USB menu. But when I want to use that printer I have to click on the USB Menu, so that in WIN 7 the USB printer is not useable. (Because my USB printer does not work with WIN 7 - but it works so in XP MODE VM) Is there a way to automate this, whenever the XP Mode VM is started the USB printer line in the USB menu should be clicked. Unfortunately when I close the VM I must click it again - it is not remembered.

windows xp mode doesn't initialize

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:38:19 Z

I installed the windows virtual pc and windows xp mode. It worked fine, but after I restarted the laptop, the windows xp mode didn't open.

It's a Turion 64x2, Windows 7 Professional and it's configured into a domain. The user is member of administrators and has total access to the folder where VHD is in.

The curious is that this is the second time this happen. In the first one, I reinstall the virtual pc and win xp mode, but now, stopped to open.

If I try to open in the windows virtual pc menu, only open if I choose run as administrator. And then, click in windows xp mode, really doesn't open (no windows, no error message).

What can I do?

thanks,
rboscolo

I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT USING XP MODE ON WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:30:42 Z

HI, First of all I cant explain it well cuz Im not good in English so..

Im using windows 7 ultimate and Im trying to use XP mode and
havdetection tool sent me a message and it says ' Hardware-assisted virtualization is not enabled on this computer'
I checked by Inter (R) processor utility program and it showed me that ' Inter (R) virtualization YES '
so
I reboot my laptop and pressed F2 and went to 'ADVANCED' but there is no 'Inter(R)virtualization technology' thing
I think i should change it to enabled. but i couldnt find it anyway
WHAT AM I SUPPOSE DO?

IF i need update my BIOS thing, where can i find that utility then ?

thx

Start the virtual machine when the system starts

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:06:57 Z

Hi All,

Is it possible to configure the Virtual Machine (VM) to start when the system starts. Currently when I put the .vmcx file in the Startup folder in Start Menu, the VM starts only after the login. Is there a way to start the VM even before the user logs in?

Thanks.

Regards,
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