Win 7 Ult. 32 + XP Mode

I recently found XP Mode and I want to try it on one of my Office PCs. We run an application from the server that runs on Windows 2000 server and my question is as follows.

Windows 7 does not have to be on the network since it will only be use for internet browsing, MS Office, etc but XP mode does need to use the server application... how do I have to install windows seven and XP mode virtualization?

I was trying it today but I was unable to see the server while in Virtual XP Mode. Do I have to threat it as a new install? meaning, I have to give it a name that the server will see and it can not be the same name that Win 7 has?

Sorry, I think I am making this more confusing that it need to be but networking is kinda Greek to me

Yes maybe.
The biggest problem with XP mode is that by default it sets up a virtual network card on a different subnet then the host PC acting as a router with NAT.

What you first need to do is when XP mode is shut down, not hibernated, go into the settings and change the network interface to use the host network card.

Once that is done you may be able to connect to the server and or add to the server that the username for XP mode to allow it access.

Not certain if you can run that program from the server in the XP mode. But once you can see the server in networking you'll find that out.

Shootist said:

Yes maybe.
The biggest problem with XP mode is that by default it sets up a virtual network card on a different subnet then the host PC acting as a router with NAT.

What you first need to do is when XP mode is shut down, not hibernated, go into the settings and change the network interface to use the host network card.

Once that is done you may be able to connect to the server and or add to the server that the username for XP mode to allow it access.

Not certain if you can run that program from the server in the XP mode. But once you can see the server in networking you'll find that out.

Thanks a lot Shootist, I will try that tomorrow and see if I can make heads or tails of it. I have seen something about "Hibernating " when I exit from XP Mode but it was brief so I don't know whether y shut down or just hibernated... I gotta check that out.

AstaLaVista said:

Thanks a lot Shootist, I will try that tomorrow and see if I can make heads or tails of it. I have seen something about "Hibernating " when I exit from XP Mode but it was brief so I don't know whether y shut down or just hibernated... I gotta check that out.

By default XP Mode is set to go into Hibernation when exiting from it. So you have to specifically tell it to Shut down.
A google search will turn up all of this.

Thanks for that Kari.
I didn't realize that the network setting, and a few others, were available while XP mode was running or in hibernation. Some of the other options are not available while it is active, running or hibernating.

AstaLaVista said:

I recently found XP Mode and I want to try it on one of my Office PCs. We run an application from the server that runs on Windows 2000 server and my question is as follows.

Windows 7 does not have to be on the network since it will only be use for internet browsing, MS Office, etc but XP mode does need to use the server application... how do I have to install windows seven and XP mode virtualization?

I was trying it today but I was unable to see the server while in Virtual XP Mode. Do I have to threat it as a new install? meaning, I have to give it a name that the server will see and it can not be the same name that Win 7 has?

Sorry, I think I am making this more confusing that it need to be but networking is kinda Greek to me

On the XP Mode VMs that I have built, I have found that if I joined them to the domain, I had no issue seeing the network - regardless of which NIC it was using. If I left them off the domain, I could not browse the rest of the network but I was able to map a drive. When they were configured this way, the VM did seem to run much slower. When the system was joined to the domain, everything ran nice & fast and there were no networking issues.

Hope that helps.
Kevin