Virtual PC
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Hi everyone Its first time that I want to use of Virtual PC and I dont know any things about it so I want ask questions of you(thanks for your answers). Do you know any good tutorial about it I found some tutorials but they are not compelete? How can I uninstal it?is it possible it destroys my OS when I want to uninstal it? Can I instal Linux on it? Thanks
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Hi everyone Its first time that I want to use of Virtual PC and I dont know any things about it so I want ask questions of you(thanks for your answers). Do you know any good tutorial about it I found some tutorials but they are not compelete? How can I uninstal it?is it possible it destroys my OS when I want to uninstal it? Can I instal Linux on it? Thanks
Yes, you can install Linux on it. Virtual PC is easy to use, just create a virtual machine with your hardware requirements, start it up, and put in your OS install CD (or iso) and install your OS as usual. When you're done, install the Virtual PC Additions in the guest OS to enable faster graphics, drag n drop etc.
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Hi everyone Its first time that I want to use of Virtual PC and I dont know any things about it so I want ask questions of you(thanks for your answers). Do you know any good tutorial about it I found some tutorials but they are not compelete? How can I uninstal it?is it possible it destroys my OS when I want to uninstal it? Can I instal Linux on it? Thanks
Hello, If you want to learn about virtual machines, you can search for vmware. It is like Virtual PC, but there is a lot of documentation about emulation, simulation and virtualitzation.
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Yes, you can install Linux on it. Virtual PC is easy to use, just create a virtual machine with your hardware requirements, start it up, and put in your OS install CD (or iso) and install your OS as usual. When you're done, install the Virtual PC Additions in the guest OS to enable faster graphics, drag n drop etc.
NO! MS does not support Linux on virtual PC (though you might be able to do it yourself), they do support it on Virtual Server, but only certain distros. VMware is better in this regard. Anyway, in both cases look at the help-files, and vendors web-sites, there's plenty of tutorials...
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NO! MS does not support Linux on virtual PC (though you might be able to do it yourself), they do support it on Virtual Server, but only certain distros. VMware is better in this regard. Anyway, in both cases look at the help-files, and vendors web-sites, there's plenty of tutorials...
They may not formally support it, but it works:
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modified on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:51 AM
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Hello, If you want to learn about virtual machines, you can search for vmware. It is like Virtual PC, but there is a lot of documentation about emulation, simulation and virtualitzation.
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Hi everyone Its first time that I want to use of Virtual PC and I dont know any things about it so I want ask questions of you(thanks for your answers). Do you know any good tutorial about it I found some tutorials but they are not compelete? How can I uninstal it?is it possible it destroys my OS when I want to uninstal it? Can I instal Linux on it? Thanks
I am running Virtual PC images of XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server and various flavors of Linux ... Fedora Core 6,7 and 8 have all run perfectly. If you have to support projects with VS2005 and VS2008 it's a great way to separate the environments.
Thomas
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Hi everyone Its first time that I want to use of Virtual PC and I dont know any things about it so I want ask questions of you(thanks for your answers). Do you know any good tutorial about it I found some tutorials but they are not compelete? How can I uninstal it?is it possible it destroys my OS when I want to uninstal it? Can I instal Linux on it? Thanks
Using virtual machines is the safest thing for your host operating system. What happens is that Virtual PC creates a normal file on your hard drive and this functions as the "hard disk" of the virtual machine. It's called a virtual hard disk (VHD). The guest operating system cannot touch any part of your host machine (unless you let it). VHD files are BIG, because you'll usually want at least a couple of GB in your virtual machine. As others have posted, you just start Virtual PC and it boots from this virtual hard disk. You put a CD in your physical drive, and then go through the installation program to install an OS. I'd suggest reading this article: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Microsoft-Virtual-PC.html Another option is to download a pre-configured virtual machine. Then you just use Virtual PC to open it. It's a good way to get used to opening up and using virtual machines without the investment of installing a complete operating system. Microsoft has several you can download, which I've linked below: VHD Search Results on MSDN
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Hi everyone Its first time that I want to use of Virtual PC and I dont know any things about it so I want ask questions of you(thanks for your answers). Do you know any good tutorial about it I found some tutorials but they are not compelete? How can I uninstal it?is it possible it destroys my OS when I want to uninstal it? Can I instal Linux on it? Thanks
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Can I instal Linux on it?
yes, no, and maybe. Virtual PC does not in any way prevent you from installing Linux in a virtual machine, as others have pointed out, it is not supported, and basically up to the Linux community to detect and integrate drivers that are compatible with virtual PC. Most current linux distributions "should" work. Virtual PC is just an application, you can uninstall it the same as any other application. The primary difference is that this "application" makes it look like you are running an emulation of another computer. It's a little more complicated than that, and at the same time less complicated than that. Alternatives as mentioned are VirtualBox, which I run on my home computers, Parallels which I use at work, and others here swear by Vmware.
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