Does anyone know if VPC Supports Usb Flash Drive Installations to be used on
any USB computer. Are virtual machines Transferrable from PC to PC? If not
does Microsoft Plan on ever having this kind of Flexibilitiy? Also, Is it
posible to run newer versions of windows as a guest on a host running an
older version of windows?

>Does anyone know if VPC Supports Usb Flash Drive Installations to be used on

>any USB computer.

If you mean VPC itself, yes, you can install it on a USB flash drive,
but no, you can't move it to a PC without installing VPC again, it
installs networking drivers that can't be installed on the fly.

>Are virtual machines Transferrable from PC to PC?

Almost always.

>Also, Is it
>posible to run newer versions of windows as a guest on a host running an
>older version of windows?

Yep! (Though VPC only supports 32-bit guests.)

--
Bob Comer


On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:40:14 -0800, DuceOfAce
<DuceOfAce@xxxxxx> wrote:

>Does anyone know if VPC Supports Usb Flash Drive Installations to be used on
>any USB computer. Are virtual machines Transferrable from PC to PC? If not
>does Microsoft Plan on ever having this kind of Flexibilitiy? Also, Is it
>posible to run newer versions of windows as a guest on a host running an
>older version of windows?

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:40:14 -0800, DuceOfAce
<DuceOfAce@xxxxxx> wrote:

>Does anyone know if VPC Supports Usb Flash Drive Installations to be used on
>any USB computer. Are virtual machines Transferrable from PC to PC?

You can install on any storage media that the host recognizes. You
can move a shutdown VM from PC to PC. Generally without issue.
Occassionally you might run into some issues when switching from a
particular AMD CPU to Intel CPUs.

>If not
>does Microsoft Plan on ever having this kind of Flexibilitiy? Also, Is it
>posible to run newer versions of windows as a guest on a host running an
>older version of windows?

The host is really irrelevant to the guest. As long as the host OS
supports VPC, you can run whatever OS you want in a VM.

VPC is just an app, the VMs are like documents, there's no direct
relationship between the 2 OSes.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

Thank You you two have been helpful!

I'm still not sure about if it's possible to open a virtual drive on any
computer (including PC's that have not installed the VPC app).
Maybe i should be asking if the VPC app is transferrable from PC to PC?

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:40:00 -0800, DuceOfAce
<DuceOfAce@xxxxxx> wrote:

>
>Thank You you two have been helpful!
>
>I'm still not sure about if it's possible to open a virtual drive on any
>computer (including PC's that have not installed the VPC app).
>Maybe i should be asking if the VPC app is transferrable from PC to PC?

No, you need to install VPC in order to use a VM.
VPC is free, you can install it on any system that you have admin
rights to.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

Steve Jain [MVP] wrote:

> No, you need to install VPC in order to use a VM.

Note: QEMU or Bochs need no installation.

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Robert Riebisch
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Not much help for someone who runs Windows on the host.

--
Bob Comer

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:02:12 +0100, Robert Riebisch
<Robert.Riebisch@xxxxxx> wrote:

>Steve Jain [MVP] wrote:
>

>> No, you need to install VPC in order to use a VM.

>
>Note: QEMU or Bochs need no installation.

Robert Comer wrote:

> Not much help for someone who runs Windows on the host.

Uh?! Bochs or QEMU both run on Windows hosts.

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Robert Riebisch
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Yep, sorry about that, I didn't find them the first time around.

--
Bob Comer



On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:17:34 +0100, Robert Riebisch
<Robert.Riebisch@xxxxxx> wrote:

>Robert Comer wrote:
>

>> Not much help for someone who runs Windows on the host.

>
>Uh?! Bochs or QEMU both run on Windows hosts.