Virtual PC 2007 On Vista Home Edition

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Hi,
Microsoft doesn't support it on Home Premium but I have used it for quite
awhile and it seems to work just fine. You will receive a warning when you
install it that it is not supported on your operating system.
 
Yes, it works ok on VHP. It's not supported, however.
The newsgroup that discusses it is
microsoft.public.virtualpc
 
The Virtual PC application requires a 400 MHz Pentium-compatible processor
(1.0 GHz or faster recommended), and requires approximately 35 MB of disk
space. It runs on Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows
Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition,
Windows Vista SP1 (Enterprise, Business, Ultimate), Windows XP SP3.
 
it runs in fact on any XP and Vista, if M$ likes it or not. There is also a
hack on the net that let's run vpc07 on 2000.

Sascha
 
Mark L. Ferguson said:
The Virtual PC application requires a 400 MHz Pentium-compatible processor
(1.0 GHz or faster recommended), and requires approximately 35 MB of disk
space. It runs on Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise,
Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Tablet PC
Edition, Windows Vista SP1 (Enterprise, Business, Ultimate), Windows XP
SP3.



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It runs on the Home editions as well but the user is informed that it is not
supported (meaning not eligible for phone and email support from MS PSS on
the Home editions).
 
I have tried to install and get the following message: you are not running on
a supported operating system. Please see Microsoft
 
Virtual PC 2007 Supported Operating Systems:

Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003,
Standard x64 Edition; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition;
Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate;
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows XP Professional Edition;
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Sorry, but Vista Home Premium is not on the list.
 
Just click "OK or "Continue" or whatever and drive on. You can install and
use it, it simply isn't "supported". That means that if something doesn't
work Microsoft has no responsibility to make it right.

I run Virtual PC on my Windows Vista Home Premium edition PC with no
problems whatsoever.
 
Virtual PC 2007 Supported Operating Systems:

Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003,
Standard x64 Edition; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition;
Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate;
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; Windows XP Professional Edition;
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Sorry, but Vista Home Premium is not on the list.
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Not officially supported, but as many people here have pointed out, it
works fine.
 
I have a software program that will not run on Vista Home Edition Premium. I
have installed the Virtual PC 2007 but I need to rum XP or Vista Business to
get the software to work on my PC. Should I install XP verison?

Thanks
 
I have VPC on Vista Home Premium without any problems. It did point out
that my OS wasn't supported when I installed it, but I installed it anyway,
and it works fine.

The problem with "Reboot and select proper boot device" normally means you
don't have an OS installed on your Virtual PC, nor do you have a bootable
image or disk in the floppy or CD drives. This is the same alert you would
get on any PC if no OS were installed.

If you place either an OS installation floppy or CD in the appropriate drive
you should be able to configure, format, and make an OS installation to the
Virtual HDD and then boot it as you would with any system.

I have several virtual PCs ranging from DOS to Win2K, and the procedures to
get up and running vary from running sys c: under DOS to simply booting from
the CD and following the prompts an newer versions of Windows, but they all
work OK here.

Buddha

lucky_12 said:
Not officially supported, but as many people here have pointed out, it
works fine.
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I've bn trying to get VPC2007 to run on my VHP sys but no luck, I set
up everything like I have when using VPC in the past, but I get this

first it loads saying:
client MAC ADDR: [numbers] GUID: [more numbers]
DHCP..-
then after a while it comes up with a boot error message:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device_
do you have any solutions?
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VPC is like any other computer. Did you "install" an operating system?

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Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


lucky_12 said:
Not officially supported, but as many people here have pointed out, it
works fine.
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I've bn trying to get VPC2007 to run on my VHP sys but no luck, I set
up everything like I have when using VPC in the past, but I get this

first it loads saying:
client MAC ADDR: [numbers] GUID: [more numbers]
DHCP..-
then after a while it comes up with a boot error message:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device_
do you have any solutions?
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Yes .. once again Mircosoft messed up.

There are millions of PCs with Home Premium pre installed, and the one thing
that could help people run different operating systems is not supported by
Microsoft.

That is some great customer service .... EDITED by me. ......

You should be supporting this on what is probably your most installed OS .....

Maybe getting help from Microsoft is just not for the common people .....
 
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