Can VMware and Virtual PC coexist?

[Binky]

I just reinstalled a full fresh copy of Win7 32bit. Before installing a bunch of software and updates, Virtual PC worked fine. After many program installations and updates, it gives me the "you must enable virtualization" error.

I run VMware server to host an asterisk server. This was not installed when VPC worked fine...

Does VMware (server) conflict with Virtual PC? Is there any way to make them play nice with each other? The VMware needs to stay, although disabling it temporarily to use VPC would be fine. I've tried shutting down the VM to run VPC, but it doesn't seem to work.

 

[dawks]

There might be a problem where the two technologies both cannot access the virtualization extensions at the same time. Its strange that Virtual PC didnt work even when you disabled VMware. Perhaps you didnt fully shut down VMWare? There might be a service running?

 

[Binky]

VMware sever runs as a service. I shut down all the processes that I could see, but I still got the virtualilzation error. I'm thinking that it may not be possible to boot with VM starting as a service, then disable it, and run VPC successfully.

Maybe I need to make a script to disable the services from startup, then reboot. This is pretty annoying though.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I've successfully run VMWare and VPC together, but VPC has to be launched first. So yeah, you can't run the VMWare service when Windows starts in that situation.

 

[Binky]

Well, I solved my own problem.

I had to diable the "execute disable bit" setting in bios. Oddly enough, VPC worked fine before the installation of VMware with this setting enabled. Even after the uninstallation of VMware, the VPC would not run. Now they both seem to run at the same time without issues.