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December 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:14 PM

How many virtual machines can Virtual PC run at the same time?

How many virtual machines can Virtual PC run at the same time? 32 - in case you were interested. It can also have up to 255 configured and registered (I usually have about 40 virtual machines in my list at any given time). Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 11 Comments
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:59 PM

VMDK to VHD Converter Available

As covered by Andrew Dugdell (aka Dugie) there is now a tool available to convert VMware virtual hard disks (VMDK) to Virtual PC / Virtual Server virtual hard disks (VHD). To find out more go here . Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:40 PM

Glorious Hacks of Yesteryear

Today I had a random discussion about "glorious hacks" in Virtual PC that I knew of. One that particularly came to mind was this: In Connectix Virtual PC 5.0 we moved to using a new BIOS and also moved from the 430TX chipset to the 440BX chipset. One
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:42 AM

Drag and drop does not work until the host is restarted.

When you install Virtual PC on a new computer the ability to drag and drop files from the virtual machine to the host operating system does not work until you restart the host operating system. Technically, you do not need to restart the host operating
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
 
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