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From: Buttnuts on 6 Mar 2010 21:14 I have been searching and have not found if this is possible. I have a Win7 Ent. laptop with lots of RAM (6GB) and fast cpu (i7). I have already installed VirtualPC with XP Mode to run some legacy apps that we must run and for the most part they work fairly well. But I would like to be able to add additional virtual machines - from VHD's (both XP) that I have. The reason is simple I am going to be traveling a lot and would like my development machine which has all our code and Visual Studio and all other tools installed along with the other machine - an XP machine running server services for testing. Can these two Virtualiztion platforms work together? And if so how? Would I simply just download Virtual PC 2007 or server and install that? Might that kill my XP Mode that is working pretty well? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
From: Robert Comer on 6 Mar 2010 23:14 You can't run Windows Virtual PC (XP Mode) and VPC 2007 on the same machine but you're in luck, Windows Virtual PC can run the VM's from VPC 2007 or Virtual Server (as long as it doesn't use a emulated SCSI drive). Just double left mouse click on the .vmc file to import than into WVPC. And if they're XP SP3 and later, you probably want to uninstall the VPC2007 additions and install the WVPC Integration components. (unless you want to keep running them on another PC with VPC2007, then just leave the additions install instead.) -- Bob Comer "Buttnuts" <leaderbuilder(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:5c63d4aa-9f5d-42cb-b395-e20deaf210c3(a)k6g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > I have been searching and have not found if this is possible. > I have a Win7 Ent. laptop with lots of RAM (6GB) and fast cpu (i7). > I have already installed VirtualPC with XP Mode to run some legacy > apps that we must run and for the most part they work fairly well. > But I would like to be able to add additional virtual machines - from > VHD's (both XP) that I have. > The reason is simple I am going to be traveling a lot and would like > my development machine which has all our code and Visual Studio and > all other tools installed along with the other machine - an XP machine > running server services for testing. > Can these two Virtualiztion platforms work together? > And if so how? > Would I simply just download Virtual PC 2007 or server and install > that? > Might that kill my XP Mode that is working pretty well? > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
From: Buttnuts on 7 Mar 2010 00:13 Thanks, Makes sense. I was hoping as much. That works in Win2k3 and 2k8. Right now I have just the latest VHD's (used for backups in case the old physical systems die). So I guess I should I first take the VHD's and create full fledged VMs, then transer both vmc and vhds to my Win 7 machine, right? Thanks again.
From: Robert Comer on 7 Mar 2010 00:21
You can create the VM's on Win 7 just as easily, all you really need is the vhd. -- Bob Comer "Buttnuts" <leaderbuilder(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:9703eaa5-9779-452d-8b0c-d497fe8704b7(a)z1g2000prc.googlegroups.com... > Thanks, > Makes sense. I was hoping as much. That works in Win2k3 and 2k8. > Right now I have just the latest VHD's (used for backups in case the > old physical systems die). > So I guess I should I first take the VHD's and create full fledged > VMs, then transer both vmc and vhds to my Win 7 machine, right? > Thanks again. |