I'm running VPC 2007 and the OS is windows 3.1 I need to copy a C++ compiler from my real computer to the virtual one. How do I do this, it doesn't seem to read the .iso that I made. I don't have a floppy drive since I'm using a laptop.
You can drag files from your PC and drop them on the VPC. Windows 3.1 supported drag & drop, so (in principle) this should work.
In VPC 2007, click on the yellow folder in the lower left hand corner of the frame around your guest OS. This will let you map a folder on the host to a drive letter on the guest. Then in the guest you can access the mapped drive as if it were a network drive.
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I have mistakenly formatted windows xp partition of my hardrive while trying to install lubuntu operating system.
Now I can only have access to my computer through the live USB disk of lubuntu.
I have couple of .iso files of windows xp cd.
But when I tried to create bootable USB drive from it, it doesn't work.
It either shows "bootmgr is missing" message or it show a blinking cursor and nothing happens while booting.
The iso's that I have, contain all the necessary installation files required.
Is there a way to make USB drive boot from it?
I tried softwares like rufus but that too doesn't work with iso that I have.
try to google a software called ultraiso, it can create an installation usb using an installation Windows cd or iso, no matter the Windows is xp or 7 or 8 or Windows Server.
If you can't find it in google, try to find it using another search engine such as www.baidu.com
then using the usb, you can install Windows again in your hard drive
When I start up my Linux VM (Xubuntu 14.04 aka Trusty) on VMWare Player (v6.0.3), my Windows host (Windows 7 pro x64) makes an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL blue screen of death.
The fact is that BSOD occurs juste after selecting an entry in my guest's GRUB screen.
How to avoid that?
The problem occurs because somewhere in VMWare drivers, an Interruption Request is made to satisfy guest shared hardware (USB, NAT, ...). The workaround is to uncheck "Connect at power on" checkbox on every device listed in "Virtual Machine Settings > Hardware" menu. You will then be able to boot.
Once the guest is started you can individually connect the pieces of hardware you want.
With my HP laptop, if I add the CD/DVD drive to my Ubuntu VM then this happens every time. So like the doctor says, "Does it hurt when you do that? then don't do it." ;) It'd be nice if VMware Player didn't bomb out for something straightforward like that, but such is life. You can always turn off that hardware before you run the VM.
My general experience as well is that it's better to add/remove hardware to the VM with the VM off. Remember that these are things which you usually wouldn't be able to change with a PC running, so it's not unreasonable for driver authors to assume that what they have on startup will not change.
BTW, don't forget that you'll need to manually delete all the lock files in the VM directory as well. VMware Player does a less-than-perfect job of cleaning up after crashes.
I have several files stored on a virtual machine that I am running on my PC, I want to simply transfer them over to the C drive on the PC however not sure how to. There is no email enabled and the virtual machine will not pick up any memory stick.
Any help is appreciated.
In VMWare you can use Shared Folders between the host (your PC) and the guest machines.
For this to work, you have to install in your guest machine VMWare Tools. Once installed, you can configure Shared Folders.
If this doesn't work, you could always connect using a network shared folder.
I was wondering if there was a very simple and free virtual machine that would allow you to boot from a folder or disk image that couldn't damage my hard disk. I am using a MacBook and am looking into operating system programming. I found a tutorial on the internet that looked promising. I want to try this but using a VM instead of actually booting from a disk. If I made a folder or disk image containing the boot.bin file and wanted to try the OS I made (while booting from a folder or disk image, not a disk), is there a VM that would let me do it? I have no previous experience with virtual machines. I also want to be sure my hard disk would not be damaged.
If you can make a cdfs .ISO, any VM technology on the market today could do what you ask. VirtualBox, KVM, Xen, VMware, VMware Fusion (on the macbook), etc. Not sure if Parallels can work for you, though.
VMware's products can also boot from floppy images, which are simply binary blobs (for the most part).
On the Mac I think you're limited to VMware Fusion (maybe Parallels), but on Linux you have so many options.
virtualbox (formerly from Sun, now from Oracle) is probably the most powerful VM that you can run on all of Windows, Macs and Linux (OpenSolaris too of course;-) and is at the same time open source (and, of course, also free as in free beer). Whether it supports your new OS is not entirely certain (since it's oriented to supporting a specific list of "guest OS"s and of course your new one isn't there), but, what with it being free, it's surely worth giving it a try.
Can I really do this?
As I am reading up on virtualization, I am getting more excited. The latest thing I am realizing, that it may actually be possible to take my existing XP Pro development workstation(VS 2005/vs2008/sql server etc) and simply convert the entire installation to a virtual image and load onto my new box? Sounds to good to be true? Does it really work that easy? If I can take a complete "dump" of a machine and simply move it onto my new workstation, not even need to find all my old install disks, that is truly amazing.
Does one of the VM products support this better than others? that may tip the scales for me to pick one platform over another..
How is it that I have not gotten onto this VM bandwagon sooner!?
Edit/Update: Just as a quick update in case anyone is interest. Got the machine, decided to go with vmware and had a heck of a battle, first trying to figure out which product to use, and then actually getting anything to work. The instructions are not obvious and wasted my 6 hours trying to a) get a vmware working, and b) actually trying to do a conversion of my old XP machine into a VM - never got it working.
In frustration I downloaded MS Virtual PC in minutes, had it up and running in 5 minutes, and was creating VM's within the hour....VERY easy. I haven't however figured out how to convert my old XP machine into a VM - but, now having a VM running, it seems obvious to me that I wouldn't want to actually run a primary development setup in my VW window anyway.
Definitely VMware Converter.
VMware Workstation is the most user friendly and fully-featured app that I've used and is well suited for debugging. Check out an awesome video demo of the record/replay feature here.
VMWare has p2v. By far the easiest solution you could take, and it's pretty easy to convert the VMDK into a VHD if you want to use a different solution.
Three options I have used.
1) Vmware convertor will create an image for you you can move around forever. You can then run it for free in the VMWare player.
I think the easiest thing would be to connect an external drive to your computer, convert a computer into an image onto that drive, plug the drive into another machine, and try it out..
2) Ghost is ghost.. You can use something like norton ghost or a linux equivalent to mirror the drive onto a larger one. If you have driver issues you can do an inplace re-install over the existing xp install and it will replace the drivers and leave all your applications, data, and settings intact.
3) Go Mac. They're strange. You can link two macs up with a firewire cord and it will copy over your entire setup, including virtual machines. I have my laptop backed up and if it dies, I can transfer the identical computer onto another one in minutes as all the internal components in Apple are intel and the drivers are one and the same.
Options I've heard of:
4) Microsoft Virtual PC. A fourth option that I have been hearing good things about is Microsoft Virtual PC. They bought the technology from another company and
5) Citrix - This one is intriguing because it would conceivably work as well, if not better than VMware. At least that's what I hear from my Citrix friend.
Welcome to the club of virtualisation. I set up a virtual machine on my Vista Os and running xp simultaneously. Its great as some apps don't work in 64bit (ie. those old 16bit apps.). You can try Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 its most probably the most user friendly. It's what I use. You can try Virtualbox too.
You can set up a partition and allocate space to the new operating system for this to work. Or use a spare formatted secondary drive if you have one.
Best of luck!
We now do all development in VM's.
The desktops are locked down tight and out IT manager is happy.
We use VirtualBox and it's fine.
There are fairly clear instruction for using physical disks directly for VirtualBox anyway.
The P->V transofer is not terribly hard.
Can't say the same of MS VPC or VMWare.
Here's a link to XenConvert, which is specifically designed for this "P2V" (Physical to Virtual) conversion, to show that the answer to your first question is "yes", it can be done.
http://www.citrix.com/site/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=2318170&productId=683148
However, that tool is designed for stuffing your XP machine's image into a server, rather than onto your desktop machine.
For your more specific problem of doing this for your desktop, you're talking more about "Client Virtualization" (as opposed to Server Virtualization), where tools like XenClient, KVM, Virtual Box, qemu, Parallels, VMWare Workstation, etc. are better suited, and each will have their own P2V conversion technique.