Anyone try installing MS Virtual PC on host with MS Vista Home Basic? Thanks.

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This post has been edited by TechnoDude94: Dec 13 2008, 08:44 PM

Answer to my own question:

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Added on May 28, 2007, 6:08 pmSomething wrong with your approach... Virtual PC does not work like what you explain...

In virtualization, you need to understand the following terminologies:
Host OS
Guest OS

Say, there is only ONE partitition in your computer and you install MSW Vista. But u wish to use MSW XP once a while. In this case, MSW Vista is the Host OS, whilst MSW XP will be the guest OS (installed using MS Virtual PC). You no need to reboot to switch between the OSes. If u want to use MSW XP, u still need to boot to MSW Vista (as host OS), and then activate Virtual PC and then run the guest OS, i.e. the MSW XP. The guest OS is just a 'folder' or 'file'. You can duplicate them as many as u want...


This post has been edited by onemilimeter: May 28 2007, 06:08 PM

Its working fine for My vista Basic, I just need to buy pirated Vista to use in virtual Pc or find ISO image. on properties it said my virtual machine is using Intel Pentium 3, how can I upgrade it???

Please don't discuss about pirated issues in this forum.

Host operating systems

Virtual PC 2007 officially supports the following host operating systems:

Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise, Business editions and European Business N only) not Windows Vista Starter, or European Vista Home N editions).
Windows XP Professional and Tablet PC Edition (32-bit) and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
Windows Server 2003
NOTE: Some operating systems that are not officially supported, including Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows XP Media Center Edition, or XP Home Edition

Virtual PC emulates the following.

32-bit Intel Pentium II processor (but virtualizes the host processor on Windows versions) with an Intel 440BX chipset
standard SVGA VESA graphics card (S3 Trio 32 PCI with 4 MB Video RAM, adjustable in later versions up to 16 MB)
system BIOS from American Megatrends (AMI)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ISA PnP (when Vista is installed as both the host (main) and guest (virtual) Operating systems, then the need to set audio configuration is removed, as the guest (Virtual) OS automatically synchronizes the settings with the host (main) Operating System.)
DEC 21041 (DEC 21140 in newer versions) Ethernet network card.

Im not going to discuss bout pirated, im asking, how can i upgrade the videocard and processor?

actually you did talk about pirated stuff. And read my post above

Referring to your post, it's bolded and red in color, you did talk about pirated items.

VPC can run on VISTA Basic and Premium. It just not "officially supported".



This post has been edited by Matrix: Dec 15 2008, 11:13 AM

why use virture pc? use vmware workstation la

Because Virtual PC is free but VMWare Workstation is paidware.

Which most of us if use VMWare, sure are using pirated one as no average user are able to pay for VMWare license. And to add to linkinstreet note, Virtual PC 2007 Service Pack 1 include the following guest/host support:


Plus my Virtual PC always show me the correct processor name (in my case, Xeon), only the processor speed is incorrect, 5MHz...

I need to use Virtual PC. Download only 30mb. VMWare 555Mb

Maxis Broadband cant handle, even if using a download manager. Server is in US So download speed will be at 15kBps

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Added on December 17, 2008, 12:36 pmWhy would I need to buy original product for a stupid virtual pc??? I am going to just infect in with virus anyway

This post has been edited by Azlan96: Dec 17 2008, 12:36 PM

Err..VMWare Server is FREEWARE. Only VMWARE Workstation and other editions needs to pay.

I've used both VMWARE and VPC. For hosting Windows desktop O/S (like XP and VISTA), i think it's better to use VPC...seems like faster and can drag/drop files between host/guest...VMWARE can't do this.

This post has been edited by Matrix: Dec 17 2008, 03:53 PM

Oh, I didn't realize VMWare Server have same functionality as Workstation. If I'm not mistaken, VMWare Workstation have VMWare Tools that enable integration between host and guest PC... and oh, VPC's advantage are the small installer size and use fewer resources. VMWare features are too advanced for me... that's why I skip...

This post has been edited by FarCry3r: Dec 17 2008, 04:02 PM

VMware is meant for running actual production servers. Like VMWARE ESX, sits at the base layer, with no O/S. It can do very advance stuff like load balancing, storage, fail over etc etc.

VPC is meant for play play and syok sendiri...

I'm not using VMWare Workstation. I'm using Parallels Workstation for virtualisation in my PC but I'm using VMWare Fusion for virtualisation in my Mac.

VPC was meant for light virtualization usage, no fancy stuff and it's all I need for all my shit...

nope