Virtual PC, Why is it so slow?

[Smilin]

That link returns a quote regarding the performance of a XPSP2 VIRTUAL machine (IE, a guest OS not the host.) It states nothing about SP2 on the Host OS. Winchester is installing SBS 2003 as his guest, not Windows XP so that link you provided means absolutely nothing. Furthermore you have not provided an KB article describing this problem. If it is a problem there will be a bug filed on it (long before a KB article) and there isn't.

Since I spent a year at Microsoft supporting Virtual PC 5.2, Virtual PC 2004 and Virtual Server 2005 as well as Windows XP Pro and Service Pack 2, I am going to have to ask you to do better.

I already stated what the likely cause of Winchesters problem is.

I also renew my previous declaration of Shenanigans

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: mikecel79

Smilin I agree with you. And I am anxiously awaiting SP1 of VPC2k4 because it includes an addition to the DOS Virtual additions that will allow Ghost 8 to work with a VM. Hopefully it will be released soon.
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Mike, give me some more info on what you are trying to do. I might have some ideas for ya.

 

[KoolDrew]

VMWare ius better and your PC is not too good for running another OS

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: mikecel79

Smilin I agree with you. And I am anxiously awaiting SP1 of VPC2k4 because it includes an addition to the DOS Virtual additions that will allow Ghost 8 to work with a VM. Hopefully it will be released soon.

Mike, give me some more info on what you are trying to do. I might have some ideas for ya.
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Basically the file VMADD386.SYS is included in SP1 of Virtual PC. Without that file Ghost 8 crashes when you try and load it. I've read somewhere on someone's blog that using the VMADD386.SYS file will stop the problem.

Found the blog. Linky

 

[Smilin]

I was thinking more along the lines of what are you trying to do with Ghost.

I'm assuming it's either shuffling images around within VPC or possibly importing and exporting virtual machines to real ones.

 

[mikecel79]

I do all our application desployment, patches, and security patches where I work. We use SMS to deploy all patches and applications now. I use VPC to do initial application testing and patch testing. If it passes there it gets tested on our default image we use on all our desktops and laptops. We have a single image for all desktops and one for all laptops. It's a syspreped Ghost image with all our default applications.

Well I wanted to load our default image into a VM, so the exact settings I have in our image I would be able to test with. This way I cut an entire phase our of the testing. SO I am trying to use Ghost 8 for that.

 

[Smilin]

Ah gotcha.

You can do a linked virtual hard disk in VPC. Basically instead of a .VHD file you use a real partition. You can ghost to and from the real partition and still do testing within VPC.