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Exclusive Microsoft Virtualization
Open Discussion Event​

Our Seven Forums community has been invited to comment on your previous experiences using Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms, and any questions about them, for an exclusive live Q & A session and live discussion today on January 28th.

UPDATE: We can now confirm that the event will be taking place on January 28th with Edwin Yuen* from the Windows Enterprise Management division for System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

The Microsoft Virtualization Team will collect and take a look at all of your comments, then Senior Product Manager Edwin Yuen* will come back with their responses as well as be online throughout the day for follow-up questions and discussions. Edwin will stop by later between 4-7pm (UK) (10am-1PM US Central) and announce himself as he arrives.

Please post your reply comments in this thread below for this event.


*Edwin Yuen is the senior product manager in the Windows Enterprise Management division for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Edwin has 13 years of technical consulting experience in both the commercial and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.


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[z3r010]

Guys, please keep this thread only for questions or comment on experiences using Hyper-V, and other virtualization platforms.

 

[Kevlar]

Virtual PC

I hope this thread applies to Virtual PC 2007

I have Windows 7 installed as my main operating system and I tried to use Virtual PC 2007 to use my Vista Home Premium x64 as a virtual machine, and i realized that the software doesn't support 64 bit operating systems (by all means, correct me if I'm wrong) and i had to try a different solution.

My question is: Does Virtual PC 2007 support 64 bit operating systems? and if not, when, if ever, could I expect that option?

Thanks in advance!

 

[valtonray]

It would seem that we would be able to link virtual pc's together creating a virtual network within our existing hardware based network. is this going to be possible?

and another, with the rapid advance in cell phone technology when can we expect applications that give us full control over our home or work PC's.

 

[pebbly]

i have one, not very good but what is the theoretical maximum of virtual cpu's you can have on one pc

 

[SGT Oddball]

I have two questions.

1. Why is XP mode only 16bit color?
2. Do you have any plans for 64bit guest OS support?

 

[swarfega]

1. Would they consider releasing a win9x mode? So instead of XP mode, it could be one for Windows 98 in case anyone needs even older compatibility.

2. Could they add floppy image support.

 

[valtonray]

ooo i have another one. will it in the foreseeable future be possible to install a cloud based OS, linking it to cloud based storage like windows own skydrive into a virtual environment as a server that we can access from other client software. example my always on home office desktop gets a new virtual environment, the OS and storage are completely dependent on the cloud. i'm away from home and lets say i don't have my laptop on me so i use one any other windows based PC to log into my virtual environment where i have all of my files and programs.

 

[douglasreed]

Running Windows 7 in XP mode no cd/dvd

Running Windows 7 in XP mode no cd/dvd

I have two hard drives run in Super-Speed and two DVD burners, all on SATA.
Running Windows 7 Pro. When I go to xp mode everything works except the cd/dvd player just show the virtual cd player. I go to the settings and change it to physical drive D (have tried both D and E) but I can't get the use of either physical DVD drives.
I have uninstalled both the Windows Virtual PC and XP mode and re-installed it but it never shows it. Everything works in Windows 7 and everything else works in XP mode, ie: all USB's windows 7 hard drive.

Please, how can I get the CD/DVD burners to show and work in XP mode?
Thanks Doug

 

[MattRainier]

I'd appreciate a simple and effective way to multi-boot from the VHD files created by VirtualPC, including OSes other than Windows (Ubuntu, or Red Hat, for instance). I need to use Linux for my work at college, and being able to boot into it, instead of running the virtual machine on top of Windows 7, would be really handy.

 

[Night Hawk]

I have a few questions I could add here that are bound to come up sooner or later.

1)With integration enabled buring data to removable media remains a problem in the XP Mode while printer support and access to usb devices is seen in the final version. The floppy and dvd drive items seen on other VMs and custom installs to vhd remain unavailable however.

2)Visual capabilities already touched on a little is any way to enhance the virtual video card memory. Sound takes a back seat secondary role for things like multimedia and addon devices like tuner cards being unavailable while sound is still heard through the host OS.

3)IE security concerns since cooecting online while in the XP Mode is readily available. Despite being in a virtaul machine the integrated components still allows support for access to internal drives where virues and other malwares could end up being transfered over.

4)One other odd question to add here would running an emulator like DOSBox on the XP Mode for even older legacy 9x-ME type apps. When going to mount C through DOSBox as well as a program's folder no results are seen while the Dos window appears as that would.

 

[mikinho]

Three questions:

1- Why did Microsoft chose to not support USB virtualization? This is inconsistent with Virtual PC and most hypervisor products.

2- Any plans to expand on Linux Integration to support additional guest Linux operating systems? It was great to see Microsoft submit source code for the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components to the Linux Kernel Community under GPL v2 but I haven't seen any benefits from it.

3- Similar to the previous questions. Does Microsoft have plans to work with any additional open source organizations for native integration with Hyper-V? I'd love to see OpenBSD\FreeBSD drivers and integration services.

 

[GatoSoft]

Hi! ^_^

My questions are:

1. Why the MIDI synthesizer selector in Audio and Sound Devices is disabled? (by the way: more like "ripped-off" than "disabled" ).
2. Is there any way to get that option back in the future?

Thank you.

 

[pacinitaly]

would this rig be hyper V ?

Gateway - Laptop with Intel® Core™ i3 Processor - NightSky Black - NV7915u

 

[dmex]

Hi Microsofties,

Ive always heard about the problems between compatibility and features with each new Windows release and I know every Windows developer has at some stage come across a bug or problem with the various Win32 Apis and undocumented interfaces like IID_IListView :shock: that are quite problematic to diagnose and resolve with good code.

Windows needs a refreshed and updated API set with a redesigned system layout that greatly reflects the other enhancements made like with 64bit development, I'm not sure about the development direction with the Windows client and Virtualization here but 64bit Windows calling its kernel, kernel32 and keeping its 64bit library's in Windows\System32 with 32bit compatibility library's in \Windows\SysWOW64 added with various redirection and virtualization taking place can be an enormous problem at times during and after development.

This shouldn't be maintained for yet another Windows release and potentially until 2025 or beyond with a 10-15 Year support life-cycle, especially with no ability for the user or developer to remove these subsystems. Virtualization like XP-mode and hypervisors seem well suited for coming to the rescue and solving these various compatibility hacks and handling that requirement as evident with XP-Mode, Are there plans with Windows 8 to include a new Windows Feature or similar that can allow users to completely remove the compatibility and x86 subsystem hacks on 64bit Windows when XP-Mode or a Hypervisor is installed?

Steven

 

[Loki]

Is Virtual PC 2007 going to get a Service Pack 2 to support:

• Windows 7 as a Guest OS?
• Windows 7 as a Host OS?

Virtual PC 2007 runs on Windows 7, but it doesn't like shared folders when the guest is Windows 7.

 

[sygnus21]

Does Virtual PC 2007 support 64 bit operating systems?

I know this is a little late, but yes - Download Windows XP Mode. I'm using it as we speak. Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

Yes I know this is the download for XP Mode, but you can also download Virtual PC from there as well since XP Mode uses it. Once you select your OS, the download link will pop up

The bigger question (for those wondering) Is can your PC run Virtual PC? Windows Virtual PC: Configure BIOS

FYI - Install and use Windows XP Mode in Windows 7

 

[lurtonk]

VMWare 2.0.2

I have been using VMWare since I discovered there was a VHD file size limit on Virtual PC.

I have Vista Ultimate x64 and Ubuntu running in VM's under Windows 7 Pro x64.

I love the ability to copy my VM's to another folder/disk to run tests.

 

[Kari]

I would like to mount my host's backup system image vhd-file as a second hard disk in my Virtual PC Vista virtual machine, to be able to extract single files when needed. However, my system image is huge, ATM some 220+ GB, and because of 127B size limit I am not able to this.

Is there a way to use bigger than 127GB virtual disks?

Kari

 

[Win7User512]

What are the best resources for learning how to use the technologies in a professional/business environment.