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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / May 2005Virtual PC 7.0.1/Tiger/XP Pro
Installed Virtual PC fine. Have my own copy of XP Pro so bought Standalone version of Virtual PC. Made empty virtual machine fine. It seems to capture the cd drive fine when I restart the virtual machine, it doesn't bring up the "Press any key to boot from CD" and when I just click on "Setup.exe" it won't run either. Any ideas? Thanks for any help. >Installed Virtual PC fine. Have my own copy of XP Pro so bought >Standalone version of Virtual PC. Made empty virtual machine fine. It [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Thanks for any help. You need to boot off the Windows XP cd-rom, thats the only way to install Windows. Is your XP a retail version?  SignatureCheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP Website: http://www.essjae.com "This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. I am not am employee of Microsoft." Booting from a bootable CD-Rom requires that you make sure that the cmos setup is set to boot from cdrom then hard disk. also pressing the space bar when the vpc is started so that it will boot from cdrom. Each Virtual machine emulates a complete pc, including CMOS where boot sequencing is setup. Other than that, you have to make sure that you check the VPC CD menu to make sure that you release the vpc additions cdrom which sometimes gets captured and then won't allow the actual cdrom to be recognized and used. Additionally, make sure that the Windows XP cdrom is not an upgrade and is bootable. > Installed Virtual PC fine. Have my own copy of XP Pro so bought > Standalone version of Virtual PC. Made empty virtual machine fine. It [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Thanks for any help. The BIOS of VPC is already set to boot from CD, and in fact, you can't change that. You can try to bring up the bios and make changes, but they will not stick. If the install CD is bootable, VPC will be able to boot from it without having to access the BIOS. |
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