It isn’t very often that we are fortunate enough to have free software that actually is useful. VM Systems and Microsoft both have free offerings in the virtual PC market. This paper will deal with one of Microsoft’s offerings, Virtual PC. This paper will give you a tour of the product, installation requirements, file structure, new enhancements, and possibilities. Only Virtual PC will be covered here. Virtual Server is another program made for running server software and is quite different in its interface and scope. Look for a future paper on the Virtual Server product | Global Knowledge Expert Reference Series ofWhite Papers Virtual PC s Enhanced Rollout and Troubleshooting Run Windows 98 NT ME XP 2003 Server and Vista 1-800-COURSES Virtual PC s Enhanced Rollout and Troubleshooting Ron Schindler Global Knowledge Instructor Introduction It isn t very often that we are fortunate enough to have free software that actually is useful. VM Systems and Microsoft both have free offerings in the virtual PC market. This paper will deal with one of Microsoft s offerings Virtual PC. This paper will give you a tour of the product installation requirements file structure new enhancements and possibilities. Only Virtual PC will be covered here. Virtual Server is another program made for running server software and is quite different in its interface and scope. Look for a future paper on the Virtual Server product. Virtual PC Tour Figure 1. Virtual PC Console Copyright 2007 Global Knowledge Training LLC. All rights reserved. 2 In the past when you wanted to explore the newest operating system bench-test images or just parallel systems until you made sure everything worked you needed to set up multiple hardware configurations or run a multi-boot system. You could never be two places at once with these types of setups. Virtual PC is changing the way we rollout new operating systems images databases do training or even help-desk approaches. Virtual PC is made up of a Console Virtual Configuration Files and Virtual Hard Drives. The console is where we control which OS we will run. We can alter the Options and Settings that affect the way we use or see our information. The status of each virtual machine is shown to us as one of the following Running Not Running or Saved. Running is an indicator that the virtual machine is either starting up or in use. Not Running is a state that does not use any resources and is pretty much dormant. Saved is a virtual machine that has been saved at a point in operation very much like a .
