Downgrading To XP - A Matter Of Life And Death!!!

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Ann Watson said:
So how much extra hard-drive space does one need to install VPC 2007 on Vista plus the second
operating system? Sounds like it could eat up a lot of a laptop's hard-drive space.
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VPC 2007 doesn't take up a lot of room, the virtual machines you
create can. I have VPC installed on my primary hard drive. But,
all my virtual machines are located on a separate hard drive.
Things should run so much better having the actual virtual machine
on a separate drive. On my laptop, I have the VMs located on
an external USB drive, and it works great. For one of my desktops,
the VMs are located on a secondary internal drive.


-Michael
 
Ann Watson said:
So how much extra hard-drive space does one need to install VPC 2007 on
Vista plus the second operating system? Sounds like it could eat up a lot
of a laptop's hard-drive space.
Click to expand...

VPC itself isn't all that big--it's the virtual drives that are. But in my
case I only wanted to run XP for a specific VPN client that is not
Vista-compatible yet. After all XP updates were applied the virtual HD file
is around 6 GB (max HD size is set to 20 GB).

Good news is that the VPN client works perfectly. As this will only be used
for RDP sessions into a terminal server, the performance is perfectly
adequate. Don't think I'll even install any software to the XP VM.

On a side note I had read how great VMWare (Player) is, and how much better
than VPC it was. The Website claims it can open VPC files. In my case it
will not--fails with an error trying to open it (and the VPC was "turned
off" first, and VPC close). Might give VMware Converter a try, but I don't
want to go overboard when I only need it for a VPN client that will likely
be Vista-compatible within a few months anyway.

Oh yea, the laptop's HD is 160 GB.
 
MICHAEL said:
VPC 2007 doesn't take up a lot of room, the virtual machines you
create can. I have VPC installed on my primary hard drive. But,
all my virtual machines are located on a separate hard drive.
Things should run so much better having the actual virtual machine
on a separate drive. On my laptop, I have the VMs located on
an external USB drive, and it works great. For one of my desktops,
the VMs are located on a secondary internal drive.


-Michael
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Thank you, Michael, for that information.

Ann W.
 
Tinman said:
VPC itself isn't all that big--it's the virtual drives that are. But in my
case I only wanted to run XP for a specific VPN client that is not
Vista-compatible yet. After all XP updates were applied the virtual HD file
is around 6 GB (max HD size is set to 20 GB).

Good news is that the VPN client works perfectly. As this will only be used
for RDP sessions into a terminal server, the performance is perfectly
adequate. Don't think I'll even install any software to the XP VM.

On a side note I had read how great VMWare (Player) is, and how much better
than VPC it was. The Website claims it can open VPC files. In my case it
will not--fails with an error trying to open it (and the VPC was "turned
off" first, and VPC close). Might give VMware Converter a try, but I don't
want to go overboard when I only need it for a VPN client that will likely
be Vista-compatible within a few months anyway.

Oh yea, the laptop's HD is 160 GB.
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Thank you, Mike, for that information. I will consider it when I have
to move to a new machine.

Ann W.
 
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