Vista - Installing Windows 7 Beta

I installed VirtualPC 2007, and created a virtual disk. I then went to
install Windows 7 Beta on that virtual disk, but it said that it was going
to install on 60GB. I only have 27 GB free on that partition. Do I just
ignore this, or what?

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If you used the Vista option for initializing your Windows 7 VPC, then the
default virtual disk size is 64gb. However, by default, the virtual disks
are dynamically sized depending upon what is installed on the VPC, so I think
that you'll be OK for a while.
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Don


"Gordon" wrote:

Hello,
How did you install on VPC?
I downloadd the Windows 7 beta iso file.
On virtual pc did you choose vista install? other install?
thanks for any help


"Gordon" <gordonbparker@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:32:20 -0600, "greg" <iuouh@xxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, select Vista as the OS in the beginning and this will reduce
issues you have with sound in Win7

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:32:20 -0600, "greg" <iuouh@xxxxxx> wrote:
You must select the VISTA template in VPC2007 since it does not know
about Win7 (of course) so the closest version is Vista. THis will
prepare the virtual hardware in the best way.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

Thanks,
I tried Other. Which did not work. Should "other" have worked?


"Bo Berglund" <boberglund@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:47:40 -0600, "greg" <iuouh@xxxxxx> wrote:
I cannot recall a single report here where "Other" actually made it
work in a usable way...
The only way seems to be using VISTA as the template.

If you have already installed Win7 using the Other template do as
follows:
1) Close down the virtual machine
2) Delete it from the VPC console (this won't touch the VHD file)
3) Delete the Win7 WMC file
4) Use the VPC Wizard to create a new guest using the VISTA template
5) When it reaches the disk step, select "existing" and browse to the
VHD file where you installed Win7

This way you will keep your invested effort in installing the Win7 OS
and when it starts up it will PnP and find the new hardware (mainly
the sound subsystem).

Note that Win7 in VPC2007SP1 runs rather slow, so much so as to be
nearly unusable, unless you enable hardware virtualization for the
Win7 guest.
I don't have a VT capable host PC so I gave up on Win7 for the time
being...

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:47:40 -0600, "greg" <iuouh@xxxxxx> wrote:
Other will work, with the exception of the sound card.
The only thing that the OS selection does is identify which sound card
drivers should be installed with the Virtual Machine Additions. Other
that modification, the VMs would be identical.

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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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Bo Berglund wrote:Bo:

Yes for me (no hardware virtualization) it is almost unusable. But on VMWare
Workstation it works much better.

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David Wilkinson
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"David Wilkinson" <no-reply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ebMosQ#hJHA.1172@xxxxxxon virtualbox without hardware virtulization which I do not have on my
laptop worked much better than vpc2007 spp1

robin