Virtual PC 2007

drak3 · 12 Nov 2007 at 20:50

I installed windows XP pro inside VPC2007 to run a program I need. However, VPC will only display at 1024 resolution.

I am using vista and the spec is in my sig.

Any ideas or I should be looking into VMWare player etc?

m4cc45 · 12 Nov 2007 at 21:14

I'm not too sure about VPC 2007 as I've not really used it.

With regards to VMWare Player that will only run pre-build image so you'd need VMWare Workstation to make the image first. From there, on the Virtual PC Side, you just change your resolution to whatever you want - though there are some restrictions.

M.

swinnie · 12 Nov 2007 at 21:34

Just get VMware Server.

Just setup a virtual machine and install from XP Disk.

Not sure about resolution settings etc.

bledd · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:14

virtualpc is the quickest

drak3 · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:15

I downloaded a tool from vmware which converted my VPC image to VMware. Now I can start the winxp virtual machine from VMplayer. The problem I got however is that after xp starts it detects some new hardware, up to the point it will attempt to install "standard PCI to PCI bridge" drivers and it will simply become unresponsive and slow as hell, while host CPU performance is 100% on one core.

I found a solution to this, by editing the config file and changing it to FALSE so it wont install it.

Any idea what "standard PCI to PCI bridge" is and if I need/will need it?

drak3 · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:16

bledd. said:
virtualpc is the quickest

Cannot use 1900x1200 resolution tho :/

nade · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:27

Could it simply be the emulated "monitor" that XP has picked up from within Virtual PC. You could check the display settings within WinXP.

Another thing could be the config of the Virtual PC. I use VPC2004 at work and use these settings and don't appear to have any probs with the display settings:

chaosophy · 12 Nov 2007 at 23:12

drak3 said:
I downloaded a tool from vmware which converted my VPC image to VMware. Now I can start the winxp virtual machine from VMplayer. The problem I got however is that after xp starts it detects some new hardware, up to the point it will attempt to install "standard PCI to PCI bridge" drivers and it will simply become unresponsive and slow as hell, while host CPU performance is 100% on one core.

I found a solution to this, by editing the config file and changing it to FALSE so it wont install it.

Any idea what "standard PCI to PCI bridge" is and if I need/will need it?

Not sure if it's still the case but you always had to install VMWare Tools on your guest o/s to sort out some of the virtual h/w drivers and get the full performance out of it. Was mainly for the GFX and mouse iirc.

That was the first link i found but have a search around if it's not the version of VMWare you are using.