Plan on using Windows 95 with VPC
2007? Make sure you get or keep a copy of the VPC2004
Additions. No Windows 95 VM Additions are included with VPC
2007. See more details here: Why
won't the Virtual PC 2007 Virtual Machine Additions load on Windows 95--VPC
Guy Ben Armstrong, VPC Program Manager, explains in his blog.
Windows 98 ready VMC and VFD:
Partitioned and formatted, includes a Win98 EBD. Just add your Win98
ISO/CD-ROM, License key and go. (If you have VPC7, use the one in the Mac
section)
VPC-Win 5.2 Tech Ref v1.3(RARed PDF or ZIPped PDF)*
Its full of relevant info for VPC, while I wrote it for 5.2, a huge amount
of it is directly, or almost directly usable with VPC2004. Please
note that some modification necessary to use guides for VPC2004, for
example, VPC2004 does not create pre-formatted disk images so you must
pre-format a Win9x/DOS VHD before you can install the OS.
Compare my Differencing Disk
diagram (p18 in the TechRef) to the one in the Virtual Server Admin's guide
(under Using Diff. Disks). (My original Word doc of this was
created Dec 10, 2002 ;-) )
Windows 98 Ready VM for
VPC7, similar to the one for VPC200x above. You
need a Windows 98 CD and license to finish the install (The VM is
configured to boot to C:, and has CD-ROM drivers already loaded for a
pain-free Windows 98 install) This won't work with the Win98 included
with older versions of VPC.
Garmin
and VPC Configuration Info-please
don't email me or the author of this for tech support, as you won't receive
it from either of us, this is provided as a reference ONLY.
Virtual
PC 4.0.2 Updater- (.sit format) this updater
requires an earlier version of VPC4 to be installed.
If you need the 5.0.4
or 4.0.2 updater, I suggest you download it and archive it (i.e. burn to a
CD-ROM or two, etc.) now, as they could be removed at any time for
copyright issues.
VPC
200x Precompactor.exe to zero VHD before compacting (ZIP) --Use instead of Eraser,
extract the zip file and run in Windows after you defragment and before you
compact.
For
NW6.5, you don't need to modify the DC21X4 Driver files in the unsupdrv
folder on the cd-rom, it was done by Novell, but apparently you need to do
a manual installation and allow unsupported drivers to be installed.
VPC 2004 Precompactor.exe to zero
VHD before compacting (ZIP) --Use instead of Eraser, extract
the zip file and run in Windows after you defragment, and before you
compact.
VPC-Win 5.2 Tech Ref v1.3(RARed PDF or ZIPped PDF) - full of relevant info for VPC, while I wrote
it for 5.2, a huge amount of it is directly, or almost directly usable with
VPC2004.
VM Ware Workstation- VPC's main
competitor, the perfect choice if your host OS is Linux or BSD based, 6.5 now available. I like it, especially when using Linux VMs.
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