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From: Gary on 16 Jan 2010 01:58
I am having problems in installing my OS in the Virtual PC Console. I am
getting an error that says "Attemping to load a 64-bit application, however
this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode"

My host computer has Win 7 Pro (64-bit) OS with i7-975 processor. I
downloaded the 64-bit version of VirtualPC 2007 SP1 and I was able to
complete the Installation. Part of the Wizard, it ask for an OS, and I
select Window Vista because Win 7 was not available. The MS website
indicated that VirtualPC 2007 SP1 should work with Win 7.

After installation, I start up the VirtualPC and the "Virtual PC console" is
shown. I have my Win 7 Pro (64-bit) disk in the CD and I see "Windows is
loading files". After a little while, I get the error above and this:

Window failed to start
File: \window\system32\boot\winload.exe
Status: 0xC000035a
Info: Attemping to load a 64-bit application, however this CPU is not
compatible with 64-bit Mode".

Can someone please help !


Thank You,

G
From: Bo Berglund on 16 Jan 2010 03:00
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:58:02 -0800, in microsoft.public.virtualpc you
wrote:

>I am having problems in installing my OS in the Virtual PC Console. I am
>getting an error that says "Attemping to load a 64-bit application, however
>this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode"
>
....
>
>After installation, I start up the VirtualPC and the "Virtual PC console" is
>shown. I have my Win 7 Pro (64-bit) disk in the CD and I see "Windows is
>loading files". After a little while, I get the error above and this:
>
....
>Info: Attemping to load a 64-bit application, however this CPU is not
>compatible with 64-bit Mode".

You are attempting to load a 64 bit operating system inside a virtual
machine in VPC2007. This is not supported and that is why you get the
message.
VPC2007 can only run 32 bit operating systems no matter what kind of
CPU you have or what kind of host operating system you have installed
VPC2007 into.

If you really want to use a 64 bit guest you have to look elsewhere
for virtualization than Microsoft. One plcae would be VMWare, their
Player 3 and WorkStation 7 products both handle 64 bit guests, USB and
Aero guest graphics well. None of this is possible with the Microsoft
solution.

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)
From: Mark Rae [MVP] on 16 Jan 2010 05:58
"Gary" <Gary(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EB8CB42B-5D26-4DEA-A884-89571888A824(a)microsoft.com...

> Can someone please help !

Virtual PC 2007 doesn't support 64-bit guests...


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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