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Virtual PC is a virtualization program that simulates a hardware environment using software. It is currently developed by Microsoft and intended for use on Windows.

Virtual PC is software that hosts virtual machines (which use software to simulate real hardware). It is designed for the Windows operating system, and is currently developed by Microsoft.

For Windows 7, there is a special version of Virtual PC called "Windows XP Mode" that can be used to run legacy software designed for Windows XP in a special compatibility environment. It is available free of charge for customers with qualifying versions of Windows 7.

Older versions of Virtual PC were released for the Mac OS, and allowed it to run Windows-based software under an virtualized Windows installation. They were chiefly developed and maintained by Connectix, before the software was acquired by Microsoft.

More information about the history and implementation of Virtual PC is available on Wikipedia.

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Detect virtualized OS from an application?

I need to detect whether my application is running within a virtualized OS instance or not. I've found an article with some useful information on the topic. The same article appears in multiple places, I'm unsure of the original source. VMware…
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Determine when running in a virtual machine

Is there an official way for an application to determine if it is running in VMWare or Virtual PC (or whatever Microsoft is calling it now)? The code I have seen is usually a hack that took advantage of some odd behavioral side effect in a specific…
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Accessing ASP.NET Development Server from another pc on the network

I would like to test my web app in other browsers. I have installed Virtual PC to do just that. the ASP.NET development server does not allow remote connections so the virtual pc (another computer on the network) cannot access the website. I found…
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Where can I get images or full Windows OS's to run in Virtual Machines

I want to test my software on different Windows Operating Systems. I plan to do it using Virtual Machine software, either VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC. I would like to be able to test Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 98 in both 32…
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Automate Virtual PC 2007 with PowerShell?

This is basically a duplicate of this question, but the accepted answer was "no" and I would like to keep this question open until getting an actual answer instead of accepting "NO" and giving up. Stephen Rose told me via Twitter DM to use…
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Access website hosted on Windows 7 from Windows Virtual PC XP mode

I have Windows Virtual PC installed on my Windows 7 machine. I am using it for testing my website for cross browser functionality. In my Windows 7 I am developing the website in asp.net 4 and VS2010. In my Virtual PC XP, i want to access the website…
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Virtualization questions

I have never used virtualization, and am trying to get up to speed. My new desktop is coming today and I specifically bought it to try and run all my needs on a single machine (i.e. a vista desktop, a xp desktop, vs 2005, vs20008, windows servers,…
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Defrag a virtual hard disk (.vhd)?

Like any other hard disk, virtual hard discs (*.vhd) will suffer from fragmentation. So to keep good performance i guess i have to defrag first the virtual hard disc from within the virtual machine and also the (physical) hard disc the .vhd is…
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testing IE9 on virtual pc

I've downloaded the windows7 vhd from microsoft's site. I created a virtual pc from that vhd. It runs ok, but the welcome screen want a password for one of the accounts (admin and administrator). I've tried guessing a few passwords but with no…
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How to make SQL Server running in Virtual PC accessible to host OS?

I'm running SQL Server 2008 Express on Windows XP on a VirtualPC instance inside a Windows XP host. I want to be able to connect to databases on the guest instance using SSMS on the host. When I go to connect from SSMS on the host, and browse for…
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Windows Virtual PC Development Setup?

After having had a dev PC HD corrupt, I'm considering the idea of making my development environment be fully Virtual PC based. The core items would be: - XP Pro 32 - IIS - VS2003 - VS2008 - SQL Server 2005 - Office 2003 Primary source would reside…
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Access VPN connection on guest Virtual PC from Host OS

I am running as my Host OS - Win 7 x64 and running an instance of Virtual PC XP. I am running the Cisco ISPec VPN Client on the Guest XP VPC OS and can successfully connect to my company's corporate network. I cannot run the Cisco IPSec client sw…
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Microsoft VPC IE image expiration

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en The IE6/7/8 XP SP3 images made available for testing from Microsoft are set to expire tomorrow(!) April 30. I'm a little concerned that…
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What are the key use cases for use of virtualization in software development?

What are the key use cases for the use of virtualization -- that is, running one or more "virtual PCs" using software such as VMWare and Microsoft Virtual PC -- for software development? Also -- are there other instances/uses of virtualization that…
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adding Virtual PC 2007 to host network

I am using Virtual PC 2007 with Windows xp Pro as the Guest. Is it possible to add the Virtual PC to the network of the guest PC and to the domain of the Guest PC? I enabled NAT shared networking but that only allows internet access on the…
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