Virtual PC - Get Virtual PC's to see each other

If you are using virtual PC and they cant see each other, try setting the network card to the card that is installed in the host machine ( not NAT, or Shared Networking )

How to Add Virtual PC hard disk to Virtual Box

If you want to get a VPC image mounted into Virtual Box without it blue screening on startup.

Here is how:

1. Create a new Virtual Machine
   
   
2. Set the details for the VM
   
   
3. Set memory as normal
   
   
4. Untick the Boot Hard disk Option
   
   
5. Finish creating the machine
   
   
6. Go into the Storage settings for the machine. Under the IDE Controller section click the add new Hard Disk Button
   
   
7. Click choose existing disk
   
   
8. Browse to the existing file
   
   
9. You should now be good to Go. The reason it wont boot if you don’t add the disk as an IDE controller is because by default the disk is added as SATA and the virtual pc disks were not set up as SATA. If you selected the disk during the initial wizard then you will need to remove it from the SATA controller in the Storage settings and add it to the IDE controller

Error Reading File: Source Safe and Virtual PC

If you are using Source Safe in a virtual PC and it is behaving slowly and producing Error Reading from File messages then its likely you may have a duplicate MAC address if the virtual PC has been copied.

To resolve this make sure the virtual PC is closed and not in a saved state.

Edit the .vmc file to remove the MAC address. Find the following line:



Remove the number so the line appears as follows:


After you remove the number, Virtual PC will create a new MAC address the next time you start the virtual machine.

How to Compact your Virtual PC Hardisk Files (VHD)

1. Download and install Virtual PC Service Pack 1.
2. Defragment your guest operating system.
3. Install Guest Additions if its not already
4. From the CD menu, select Capture ISO Image and browse to the Virtual PC additions directory, which is %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Virtual PC\Virtual Machine Additions by default.
5. Mount Virtual Disk Precompactor.iso. By default with auto-run enabled, the precompactor will start automatically.
6. When it has finished, unmount the ISO from the CD menu.
7. Run the Virtual Disk Wizard from the File menu and follow the instructions to compact your VHD file.