Vista - Virtual PC 2007 question

Hi everyone,

I have a strange little quirk I ran into that maybe one of you may know something about with Virtual PC 2007 SP1. I have Vista 64 bit Ultimate w/SP1 installed as the host computer. If I use the 32 bit Vista Ultimate as a Virtual Machine (VM), I have no problems with the network connection or anything else in the VM. If I use the 32 bit Vista Home Premium as a VM, everything works fine except the network connection in the VM. The settings are the same on both.

I wanted to use Home Premium since it is the only one that I have a spare product key number for.

Does anyone know of a reason why the network connection will not work with the Home Premium edition over the Ultimate with the exact same VM settings?

I hope it's not simply because I have Ultimate installed as the host.

Thank you for any thoughts,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

A couple of things that might help you. Firstly, SP1 for VPC2007 is available, dated 5/15/2008, and it might fix the bug you are experiencing (if you haven't already got this update). Secondly, here is a link to the VPC2007 community support pages from Microsoft entitled 'Discussions in Virtual PC for Windows'. I know that this link appears as 'Windows XP Newsgroups', but that is where they have located this particular forum. Have a browse through and see if there is anything there. If not, post your query there and see if you get a reply.
All the best,
Dwarf

Download details: VPC 2007 SP1

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Have you tried VirtualBox yet? It's completely free and works far better than VirtualPC.

Hi JonMCC33,

No I have not, but I will give it a try later to see how it runs.

Thank you,
Shawn

VirtualBox is a great open-source program, I use it because it can use the hardware virtualization extensions to run any OS directly on the hardware instead of inside a program...Its free, easy and truly awesome

LOL, same thing with VirtualBox. It just doesn't make sense why with Ultimate installed as the VM the network works fine, but with Home Premium as the VM it has no network.

Maybe the hardware installation service has failed? I had this once but formatted before bothering to find out why..I remember having to manually install the adapter after making Virtualbox "Run As Admin" (doesnt by default)

Ummm, I thought that Home was not allowed to be run in VMs....

Crap - I forgot about the ban lift this year.....

LOL guys,

You would have never guessed what solved the problem in Virtual PC 2007 SP1 for the Home Premium VM.

1. Click on Settings for the selected VM.
2. Click on CD/DVD Drive setting.
3. Uncheck the Attach CD or DVD drive to secondary IDE controller box in the right pane to use the Primary controller instead.
NOTE: I had to leave it checked in Ultimate for the network to work. LOL

After that the networked poped right up and connected.

Go figure. I want to fix the network, so I set the CD/DVD drive settings to do it. LOL

Shawn

Did you try bridging your network connection with a VB Host Interface?