Vista - Can't start Virtual PC 2007

When I try to start Virtual PC i sometimes get errormessage: Microsoft
Virtual PC 2007 has encountered a problem and needs to close.
The only way I can then start the Virtual PC is by rebooting my computer.
Any ideas how to fix this?

In no particular order:

What is your host operating system?
What is your guest operating system?
Does your Event Log have any related errors in it?
Do you send the error message to Microsoft?
If you do, does Microsoft give you a link to a possible solution?
How much RAM does your system have?
How much have you allocated to the VM?

We need a little bit more information to make any sort of informed guess
as to your problem.

GP

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VPC operating system: windows server 2003
PC operating system: Windows XP

Event log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 10.12.2008
Time: 22:27:50
User: N/A
Computer: LKRISTIA
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary
registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve
this description; see Help and Support for details.
The following information is part of the event: virtual pc.exe; 6.0.192.0;
unknown; 0.0.0.0; f5464cc6.

I've sent error message to Microsoft, but never received an answer

RAM 2 GB

RAM allocated to the VM: 1046 MB

Thanks

"Grand_Poobah" wrote:

I don't really see anything wrong or missing except that the Event Log
seems a bit sparse as to what actually happened. That report it gave
you is generic for "I don't know what really happened" in Microsoftspeak.

The amounts of RAM looks OK, but I notice that you only have 2Gb of RAM
total. Try temporarily cutting down on your guest RAM to perhaps 750Mb
and see if the error still happens. It could very well be that you have
so much going on in your host that pulling 1G of RAM away to run VPC
might just trigger the error.

I am not familiar with Windows Server 2003 so I don't know what it's
minimum/preferred RAM settings are but the temporary reduction shouldn't
hurt just to see if it will run reliably.

GP

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"Grand_Poobah" <whatever@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eEVaSnxWJHA.5764@xxxxxx
Probably a lot less than you'd imagine:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../bb430827.aspx


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

--->Wow. You're right. Not much at all.

GP

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:51:16 -0600, Grand_Poobah
<whatever@xxxxxx> wrote:
I run a virtual Win2003 Enterprise server 24/7 with 256 Mb RAM. It
works quite happily with that.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)