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XP can't ping Windows 7 virtual machine
I have Windows 7 installed on my PC and I installed Microsoft Virtual Machine 2007 and installed Windows XP SP1 on it.
I want the two OS's to see each other but they can't ping each other.
I ...
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Why do my virtual machines slow down/freeze under Hyper-V Server 2008
I have recently installed Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and have 2 VM's running on it.
Everything works fine until some "nice looking" (could be WPF or .NET) application is executed.
In that case all ...
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How do I grant raw disk access to a USB disk for a non-administrator in Windows XP?
I want an account, which can not be in the Administrator group, to have direct access to \\.\PhysicalDrive1, which is an external USB disk. The disk may or may not contain partitions which is ...
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Using XP mode on Windows 7, 64-bit or 32-bit?
If I am virtualizing Windows XP using Windows Virtual PC on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine, can I run 64-bit software through the virtualization?
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Boot computer from a Windows XP VM Image?
It seems as this isn't impossible but I haven't found any software that does this, except this one, but it isn't even released yet: vBoot.
My objective is:
Install Windows XP in a VM and save it as ...
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Changing system time in VirtualBox
I need to change the time on my VirtualBox winxp machine (I have an ubuntu host), but it automatically syncronizes with the host. I need different times on the machines because I'm developing ...
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How do I use VMWare Player to run XP off of a dual-boot drive in Ubuntu 10.04?
I downloaded and installed VMWare Player. I already have Windows XP installed on this drive. I would like to be able to run XP via VMWare Player off of the installation instead of creating an image ...
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How do I use VirtualBox to run XP off of a dual-boot drive in Ubuntu 10.04?
I recently upgraded to 10.04 and am pretty pleased. I have XP on the same drive, different partition. I would like to use VirtualBox to run XP while I am running Ubuntu. I've seen some directions for ...
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Need to create a disk image of a Win XP system and mount it inside a VirtualBox VM
I've got a Mac with VirtualBox installed and also a PC with Windows XP SP2. I want to make an image of the Win XP box and then mount that as a VM using VirtualBox on the Mac.
Can anyone suggest how ...
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Create Virtual Image of Laptop before Formatting
I have a 3 year old laptop running Windows XP that I used for business.
Although I have not used the laptop in over a year, I now want to re-commission it with Windows 7 and a fresh install.
Before ...
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Virtual session on windows xp
What is the easiest way to install , setup, and run virtual session on my fresh install on my windows xp computer?
I want to be able to browse , install a new software in a new virtual session ...
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Hardware changes to require XP Activation ? (for a Virtual Machine)
I have WXP-64 running on a VM and, for testing and performance reasons, I would like to occasionally change the allocations for it. Changes might include:
Number of CPU cores,
Amount of RAM
Add/...
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VMware Converter - virtualizing XP partition: Which Sysprep, SP2 or SP3, or none at all?
I'm using VMWare converter to virtualize an existing Windows XP Pro SP3 partition to run in Windows 7.
At the end of the Converter process, it warns "Unable to locate the required Sysprep files...".
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Speed of Windows XP on external USB harddrive using VirtualBox on Mac
I am considering installing Windows XP on an external hard drive in a VM with VirtualBox, but I am worried about it's speed? Would the slow transfer rate of USB slow down the performance of VirtualBox ...
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Sun Virtualbox: Cannot Install Windows 95 or 98
I'm running XP and I've tried to install Windows 95 and 98 with the official CDs in Virtualbox. Both of them give the error:
FATAL: no bootable medium found! System Halted
I've mounted the CD ...
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Is there any Official (Free of charge) XP version for browser-compatibilty testing (like XP on USB)
A friend told me that Microsoft issued an XP version that works on USB. It's minified and already has a browser included.
In fact I doubted that!, Because he told me that it was Free of Charge and ...
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Virtualbox and Serial Port permissions
I have a Windows XP Pro SP3 host machine running a Windows XP Pro SP3 guest machine. The host machine has one serial port, COM1, that I need to use in the guest machine.
When I add the serial port to ...
