xpmode hang or freeze
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miércoles, 29 de febrero de 2012 16:23
I have my system hiebernate every night. I have xpmode up and running. But no applications
are running in the xpmode window. Sometimes when the system wakes up I can't start any
applications. I need to restart the xpmode window. Does anybody know what may be happening?
RAC
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miércoles, 29 de febrero de 2012 17:40
When the host, Windows 7, goes into the hibernate mode, that does not cause the guest, XP Mode, to go into hibernate. Efectively what you are doing to the XP Mode is the same a pulling the power cord from the wall socket without putting XP Mode in hibernate or turning it off.
You need to either put the XP Mode in hibernate or shutdown the XP Mode before you allow your computer to go in to hibernate each night.
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miércoles, 29 de febrero de 2012 23:40
I'm not sure that I agree with your explanation. If I pull the power cord on a system it will never
restart at the point that I pulled the plug. My system Works most of the time after it wakes up.
But thanks for the response.
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jueves, 01 de marzo de 2012 15:48No matter how you want to look at the situation, Win 7 going into hibernate does not prepare XP Mode to enter hibenate mode, and since Virtual PC's XP Mode is in reality an application and the effects of having the application suddenly terminated is totally unpredictable.
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jueves, 01 de marzo de 2012 16:04
As you said xpmode is an application. When I cause windows 7 to sleep while other applications are
running. They don't need to prepare for hiebernation. They are not suddenly terminated. When the system
wakes up all of the applications continue to run. Most of the time xpmode also continues to run. Its just
some of the times that it seems to hang.
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jueves, 01 de marzo de 2012 16:37
Virtual PC isn't quite like just another app, it is writing to the diskmore, handling memory separately from the host, and the host doesn'treally know any more of what goes on in the guest than the guest knowsabout the host.It's really just best practice to hibernate or shut down a VM in anyvirtualization product before hibernating or sleeping the host -- mostof the time it will work, but if you catch it at just the wrong time,it results in corruption of the running machine. Microsoft neverdesigned the current version of virtual PC to do that. Maybe in thefuture they will, but not now.
Bob Comer - Microsoft MVP Virtual Machine- Marcado como respuesta rac8006 jueves, 01 de marzo de 2012 23:36
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jueves, 01 de marzo de 2012 23:42
Thanks for the response. I think I'm going to try putting the xpmode window to sleep when not using it.
Maybe this will help with the freezeing. It would be nice if I could write a powershell script to put it the
xpmode window to sleep after a certain time. I currently shutdown my system every night after the recorded
TV programs have been scanned for commercials.

