Windows Vista Beta 1 on Virtual PC 2004


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What are those additions?

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Those are additions for graphic driver that works on Vista and so on.

And xxdesmus,

Virtual Server 2005 does support ISO images larger than 2GB now.

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Here's some information from MSDN blog.

(Virtual PC Guy's WebLog)

Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC 2004 SP1 / Virtual Server 2005 SP1 is quite straight forward - but there are a few issues to be aware of:

1. Windows Vista Beta 1 does not correctly identify the virtual hard disk when it is not partitioned.? To handle this you should start the installation, get to the hard disk partitioning page, partition and format your virtual hard disk, and then reboot the virtual machine.? The second time through Windows Vista Beta 1 will correctly identify the hard disk (now that it is partitioned).

2. Windows Vista Beta 1 does not have drivers for our emulated video card, SCSI adapter and sound card.? The video and SCSI drivers are installed as part of the Virtual Machine Additions - however there is no way to get our sound card to work.? The reason for this is because we emulate an ISA Sound Blaster 16 compatible card - and Windows Vista no longer has support for the ISA bus - let alone this card.

3. While the currently shipping Virtual Machine Additions will install on Windows Vista Beta 1, they do no contain performance enhancements for Windows Vista Beta 1, nor have they been tested on Windows Vista Beta 1.? We are currently investigating releasing updated beta Additions for Windows Vista Beta 1 (no promises though :-).

4. Virtual PC does not support the use of ISO images over 2.2GB in size (Virtual Server 2005 SP1 beta does), so if you are using Virtual PC you will either need to burn a physical DVD to install Windows Vista Beta 1, or use a virtual CD program on your host computer..

Cheers,

Ben

Tim Sneath

[qInstalling Windows Vista>

To get the best experience of Windows Vista, install it on a separate partition rather than attempting to run it within Microsoft Virtual PC. If you're still feeling adventurous, we've made available an unsupported, interim release of Virtual Machine additions that supports Windows Vista (the additions included in-box with Virtual PC 2004 SP1 are incompatible).

You'll experience problems if you try to mount the ISO we ship on the DVDs directly into Virtual PC. That's because Virtual PC doesn't support ISO images of greater than 2.2GB. To work around this, either burn the image to a physical DVD and then mount that or alternatively use an alternative tool to mount the ISO as a drive. Further details and link to tools here.

In general, there's better driver support for desktops than for laptops.

To enable glass, you'll need an LDDM driver, at least 64MB of discrete video memory and DirectX 9 support in hardware.

A number of Dell and other laptops have Broadcom 440x integrated network cards. The Windows XP driver for this card works on Windows Vista, but it will cause a blue screen crash on machines with more than 1GB memory. To resolve this problem, edit the boot.ini file to add a /maxmem=1024 switch for the Windows Vista partition. This will reduce the available memory for this partition to 1GB. Alternatively, you can of course disable the network driver.

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I installed windows vista beta 1 on virtual pc 2004 and is look working fine but I have a little problem with the windows because is not transparent the active borders and toolbars...Anyone who know how I can fix this??

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I've started isntalling windows vista beta on virtual pc however my cd key is not working. Can someone please get in contact with me and supply me wiht a key that worked for them in virtual pc?

Thanks :no:

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I've started isntalling windows vista beta on virtual pc however my cd key is not working. Can someone please get in contact with me and supply me wiht a key that worked for them in virtual pc?

Thanks :no:

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Dude, you have two posts on Neowin. Both of which are asking for CD Keys. Stop it, okay?

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