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Visual Studio Development on Virtual Box, Boot Camp, or VMWare Fusion
I currently have a Mac, 2ghz and 2 gigs of ram, running OS X Leopard and Virtual Box with a Windows 7 Pro 32bit virtual machine.
Performance on the virtual machine is fine for minor tasks but is very ...
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RDP problem with Vista and Windows 7 destination
I use a server a home to host a bunch of concurrently running Hyper-V VM's with different OS's and software for testing.
I have Vista on the laptop, all latest SP's and patches. The server is Server ...
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Can Snow Leopard be run inside Windows 7 using VMware? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
How to run Mac OS X within Windows Virtual PC?
Can a PC running Windows 7 with VMware, run Snow Leopard in a VMware virtual machine? Has it been done before?
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Installing my own XP VHD into Windows 7
I am following these instructions to install my own XP VHD into Windows 7 Virtual PC (XP Mode).
When I click on Install Integration Components on the Tools menu the setup does not start. I don't ...
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What is the memory "sweet spot" for Windows 7 virtual system?
What is the minimum memory you would allocate to a Windows 7 virtual machine and have it run "reasonably well?"
Taking the advice from Scott Hanselman's: VM Performance Checklist, I routinely started ...
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Windows 7 fails to install on KVM with qemu
I'm trying to install Windows 7 as the guest OS in a virtual machine hosted by my 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic box. I get to the point of selecting my language settings and clicking 'install now', but a short ...
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How can I connect to a samba share from Windows 7 running in VirtualBox?
I'm sharing a couple of directories via samba from my Linux machine, and have no problem seeing them from other Windows XP boxes on the network.
Now I'm running Windows 7 as a virtual machine via ...
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Unlike Virtual PC 2007, why "Undo" disk on Windows 7's Virtual PC never get merged onto the main virtual hard drive (.vhd)?
Using an "undo" disk on Virtual PC 2007, when the VPC is shut down, the program will ask, "Do you want to merge the change into the main virtual hard drive, or discard the change, or to save the ...
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How to create 2, or 3, or 4 Virtual PC with Win XP on it on Windows 7's Virtual PC?
The default Windows Virtual PC installation sets up one Virtual PC with Win XP on it.
I wonder how do we set up 2 or 3 or 4 machines, all with XP on it?
There seems to be a way, but it is not ...
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Need guidance on Windows 7 and Virtual PC setup for a "development" machine
My work environment consists of 2 physical machines (W1 and W2). One is an IIS server, the other has SQL Server 2005.
I want to replicate the environment on my Windows 7 laptop using virtual PC. ...
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How to buy a windows 7 VM?
I'm a Linux user and would like to have a Windows 7 Virtual Machine on KVM.
Microsoft licensing confuses me and I don't want to buy a copy of Windows 7 that won't allow me to install it as a KVM VM.
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No Virtualization Technology on my Virtual PC; other ways to install Virtual Windows XP?
I need some other solution to install my Virtual Windows XP in my computer (running in Windows 7) that will support USB (my iPhone, I'm trying to install WinPwn that is only compatible in Windows XP ...
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Error trying to install guest operating system on virtual pc
I'm on Windows 7 and am trying to install another instance of Windows 7 into a virtual PC virtual machine.
The instructions say to put the Windows 7 install disc in the DVD drive and then startup the ...
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Multitouch in VM
Is there any Virtual Machine program with support for Windows 7 multi touch? I don't care about the platform that the virtual machine is ran on, but I'm assuming that's important eh?
Well maybe ...
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Virtual PC ESC and TAB no longer working
I'm running WinXP in VirtualPC on Windows 7 and the ESC and TAB buttons are no longer working. Has anyone had this problem before?
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Windows 7 Virtual PC will not start and just stays powered down - No errors, or event logs
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate edition and the latest versions of Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode available here.
Every time I attempt to start Windows XP Mode, the setup starts, I accept the licence ...
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Is there a virtual machine that will run Windows 7 with Aero enabled?
I've tried Virtual PC 2007, Sun VirtualBox, and VMWare Workstation, and there's always one problem or another. Does anyone know if this is even possible, and if so, what virtual machine supports it?
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Convert VMware VM to Virtual PC in Windows 7
I have an existing virtual machine which runs fine in VMware Player under Windows 7 until I attempt to run something else in Virtual PC. Is there a way to easily convert my existing virtual machine ...
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How do I install VirtualBox on Windows 7 64-bit? It says the MSI installation fails
Has anyone managed to install VirtualBox on Windows 7 64-bit ? While VirtualBox installs on Windows 7 32-bit, the installer eventually fails under Windows 7 64-bit - are there any tricks I need to be ...
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How do I create a virtual machine on Windows 7?
I'd like to create a virtual machine running on Windows 7. On Windows XP / Vista I have been using either Microsoft Virtual PC or VMware Workstation. I believe I heard somewhere that ...
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How to activate Windows XP VM/mode in Windows 7?
I don't see XP Mode or the XP VM in Windows 7 that I've heard some about. Where is it? Not in the Windows 7 Start menu...
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Windows 7: How to change XP Mode settings
I've been trying to enable "undo disks" on my Windows 7 XP Mode virtual machine.
Because this is one of the settings that cannot be updated while the VM is running I've tried shutting it down. ...
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Automatically attach VHD
Is it possible to attach vhd files automatically at Windows 7 startup? I'm imagine it will be like batch script or powershell script. I've tried this solution before,but still wont work. Any guess ...
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Can Windows Virtual PC run a 64-bit OS?
I'm running Windows Virtual PC (RC) on a Windows 7 (RTM) 64-bit host. When I create a new virtual machine and try to install 64-bit Windows 7 on that VM, I get "this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit ...
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Does windows 7 have xp virutalization built in or do I need virtualPC? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
does windows7 come with something like virtualpc built in?
Does windows7 have xp virutalization built in or do I need virtualPC?
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does Windows 7 come with something like Virtual PC built in?
does Windows 7 come with something like Virtual PC built in?
I have an i7 which is suppose to be great with virtualization and I wanted to try it out. Is there a specific app I should get that takes ...
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Is it possible to run a Windows 7 installation on a virtual machine? [closed]
Is it possible from MacOSX (running on a unibody MacBook Pro, if that matters) run the Windows 7 that was installed on another partition using Bootcamp in a virtual machine? Any particular virtual ...
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How to share VPC Virtual Machines between Windows 7 and another OS?
I am running Windows 7 RC with the new Virtual PC Beta for Windows 7. I created a new XP VM from scratch (since the XP Mode one uses a differencing drive image). When I shared it with a co-worker ...
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Windows 7 VPC Beta mouse release
I am running Windows 7 RC and just downloaded the VPC Beta. I've created a new VM and every time I click in it I can't get it to release my mouse.
What is the keystroke to get it to release? I ...
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Parallels: Copy and Paste not working
I am running Parallels build 4.0.3384 (the latest at the time of writing), on Mac OS X 10.5.7, with Windows 7 RC1 as my VM
I am unable to copy and paste from the host to the VM and vice versa. This ...
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Is XP mode in Windows 7 better than a regular virtual machine?
I've read that Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate come (or offer as a free download) some kind of special VM for running programs that only work in XP. But is this any different than just installing ...
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Why do I need Windows XP mode in Windows 7?
Tomorrow on 15th of July Microsoft is staring pre-order of Windows 7. I compared the three editions ("Which one is right for you?") for me.
The main difference is "Windows XP Mode" in Professional and ...
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