Microsoft Virtual PC thingy

Craig321 · 12 Jun 2006 at 19:20

Hi,

I've used this before, but only briefly.

If I installed say.... Windows Vista Beta 2 onto virtual PC will it mess with my main O/S at all? Or will it just basically install itself into an image type thing on my hard drive?

Thanks,
Craig.

Craig321 · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:51

Okay, thanks

Craig321 · 12 Jun 2006 at 21:37

whats the difference between vmware server and vmware player?

Craig321 · 12 Jun 2006 at 21:45

Ah, okay. Thanks.
So this VMWare doesn't go anywhere near your main PC, it just installs the OS into an image type thing like MS Virtual thing does?

Craig321 · 12 Jun 2006 at 22:01

Ah, so it basically makes files which acts as it's own personal disk?

Craig321 · 13 Jun 2006 at 01:42

I'm sure if you installed DirectX from within the virtual installation it'd work wouldn't it?

Craig321 · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:22

VMWare almost gave me a heart attack, I made a new virtual machine and it then asked me for the CD-Key for the program, so I went to email and it gave me a warning that it couldn't access the personal folders (these are stored on my external).

I then checked on my external and could get in but all the folder icons had reset themselves (I spent quite a bit of time making it look pretty). So I rebooted.

When the PC started back up the external wasn't there, that was the point when I almost had a heart attack

I found out it was because VMWare had disabled autorun even though I told it not to

How do I turn autorun back on please?

[Edit]
Just noticed it isn't disabled, not sure what was going on with my external, all seems fine now though

[Edit again]
I just started to install Win 2000 Pro as a test and it said something about the disk being imcompatable at the moment and if I want to continue the install then all data on the startup disk will be lost. It's a bit scary it saying to me that all data on startup disk will be lost, will it just 'format' the virtual drive thingy?

Thanks,
Craig.

Craig321 · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:03

Actually, nevermind. I've been testing it on my other PC and have figured it all out now, thanks

Craig321 · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:15

Otacon said:
Yeah, no need to worry

Thanks for your help

[Edit]
Any idea why it might have stopped here?:

Craig321 · 13 Jun 2006 at 21:09

I think it's free for life

Make sure you install the VMWare tools thing into your virtual operating system! At first when I was using VMWare I was thinking to myself that there's not much of a difference between MS virtual and VMWare, but when I installed the VMWare tools thing onto the virtual OS it made a MASSIVE difference, and now I can see that Microsoft are a bit behind on virtual stuff.

Craig.