Comments on: Running Virtual PC 2007 on VMWare Player

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 23:03:53 +0000

In reply to Richard.B. That is really too bad. But strange enough that it'll run ESX. I should dig out my old ESX 2.5 stuff and see if that works.

By: Richard.B

Richard.B — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 19:19:47 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Fun stuff. I tried installing VMware Workstation 1.0 in a VM once but sadly didn't get very far with it due to a plethora of errors it spat out at me.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:50:39 +0000

In reply to PhpArena. I don't think you understand how versatile virtualization is. Some of us don't have the space for 30+ machines.

By: PhpArena

PhpArena — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:53:59 +0000

Running a virtual PC does not give as a full featured PC! It has so many limitations. I personally do not enjoy it.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 05 May 2014 18:13:20 +0000

In reply to Mark Bassett.

I know you have to swap some device driver out with another one from some windows ce emulation thing (that was virtual pc, before MS gutted a fine product).

I just haven’t bothered trying to load it natively… I was more interested in VPC 2004 actually as it can run NeXTSTEP 3.3 pretty well.

By: Mark Bassett

Mark Bassett — Mon, 05 May 2014 18:05:19 +0000

Looking at your screenshot, are you using Windows 7?
I have VirtualPC 2007 running just fine under native Windows 7.
I was wondering what kinks you ran into if it doesn’t work for you.

By: ampharos

ampharos — Sat, 03 May 2014 01:05:46 +0000

In reply to ender.

funny enough, it’s actually BIGGER as HTML5 video, but it’s a lot less angry on the CPU than a GIF

http://gfycat.com/SoulfulPoorHarborporpoise

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 02 May 2014 17:40:56 +0000

In reply to ender.

I’m pretty sure it’s the same as well… But I’m too scared trying to boot off an empty file… I suspect it’ll end poorly.

By: ender

ender — Fri, 02 May 2014 15:04:35 +0000

In reply to Christian. I'm pretty sure that VMWare uses the same virtualization kernel in all of their products, it just packages it differently. Hint: create an empty file (0 bytes in size), set it as floppy image, and tell VMWare to boot off it.

By: ender

ender — Fri, 02 May 2014 15:00:29 +0000

In reply to Christian. I once did VMWare Workstation -> Windows 8 Hyper-V -> XP -> VirtualBox -> XP. Ran slow as hell. Another time I installed NT4 in twoOStwo running in Windows 2000 under VMWare Workstation.