Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

[Synomenon]

I'm running Vista Ultimate x64. Can I use Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 to run 32-bit XP SP2? If so, will 32-bit drivers run in XP SP2 as they normally would? I have some things that don't work with Vista Ultimate x64 (mainly my Palm PDA's Quick Install app. and USB driver).

 

[Tarrant64]

Yes, the 32-bit version of Vista should run just fine on VPC 2007, and the drivers that come with VPC 2007 are a little bit different than your actual system specs, but either way they work the same.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Yes

 

[stash]

Virtual PC 2007 (and Virtual Server 2005) only supports 32bit guests, regardless of whether the host is 64 bit or not, so yes.

 

[Synomenon]

Ok, I've installed VPC 07 and at the part where it asks:

"Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device"

I go to the CD menu and choose "Capture ISO Image...", then I choose my XP ISO file. After that it just sits there showing the client mac address and "dhcp" with a backslash spinning around.

I've tried resetting as well after choosing "Capture ISO Image...", but that still doesn't work. Do I need to have a virtual drive program like daemon tools as well? I made my XP ISO file with UltraISO.

 

[stash]

It seems that your XP ISO is not bootable. What you're seeing is network boot, which is the last boot option by default. In other words, none of the boot methods (disk, CD, network) are working.

 

[Synomenon]

The XP CD I used to make the ISO is definitely bootable. I was able to install XP in VPC by booting with my physical optical drive, but it just won't boot or install from the ISO. I've changed the boot order in VPC's BIOS. Is there any other way to change its boot order? Is there a setting or something in UltraISO that could have been changed that would make the ISO not bootable?

 

[stash]

Making an ISO of a bootable CD doesn't guarantee that the ISO is bootable. Just doing a straight rip of a bootable CD to ISO doesn't capture the files that make it bootable.

If you do a search on making bootable ISOs, you'll find tons of info about it.

 

[Synomenon]

I got it working. First I installed CloneCD, then made an image file of my XP CD using CloneCD. CloneCD makes them *.img files though so after CloneCD did its thing, I opened the resulting *.img file with UltraISO and saved it as an ISO file. For some reason that worked.

I don't understand why simply making an ISO file with UltraISO didn't work, but making an img file with CloneCD and then converting it to ISO with UltraISO did.

 

[Nothinman]

I don't understand why simply making an ISO file with UltraISO didn't work, but making an img file with CloneCD and then converting it to ISO with UltraISO did.

UltraISO must've missed the boot sector on the disc the first time.

 

[Synomenon]

But I made two different ISO's of my XP CD using UltraISO an neither one worked. Might be some setting I screwed with in UltraISO.