A Virtual PC Puzzler for You

Dugie's Pensieve : A Virtual PC Puzzler for You: The Klein bottle

Dugie's Pensieve : A Virtual PC Puzzler for You: The Klein bottle — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:36:01 GMT

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re: A Virtual PC Puzzler for You

Chris Haaker — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:54:33 GMT

Run the VM as a service . . .
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/42607/42607.html

re: A Virtual PC Puzzler for You

JohnLightfoot — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:27:06 GMT

yeah agree with andrew. but to make it simpler. you can make xp load vitual pc as a service at boot time saving the need for the local admin logon at all just have to wait a min for it to start up.

re: A Virtual PC Puzzler for You

Keith Combs — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:44:22 GMT

The developers that posted this question internally are as usual, acting like developers. They think they need to stuff all of that server stuff in a VM and keep it isolated and away from their pure WinXP compile environment. Silly boyz.

They asked if it would work. Of course I said it would (not giving away the details). As you can see, people are pretty creative on this little problem. And as you can see, they are performing some pretty unnatural acts.

There is a simpler solution...

Klein Bottle: A Virtual PC Puzzler for You

Andrew Dugdell — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:53:51 GMT

Well I've just finished, and the tested answer is "YES". I've blogged a few notes here for you: http://blogs.virtualserver.tv/blogs/dugie/archive/2005/11/09/TheKleinBottle.aspx
(I do hope I got the scenario right)

Hmmm: A Virtual PC Puzzler for You

Andrew Dugdell — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:17:02 GMT

Hmmm, I'm sure I've done this scenario using Virtual Server, but this sounds like fun. Running it up now, post back in a few hours.

re: A Virtual PC Puzzler for You

Tim — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:32:31 GMT

The only way we did this was to have 2 images running on the same machine, e.g we had a client image with Outlook 2003 installed and a server image with Exchange and AD running on it. You do need fairly high specification PC to run two images at the same time but it can be done. Also I agree with John, the server would have to be running for you to log onto the domain...

re: A Virtual PC Puzzler for You

John — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:28:16 GMT

a major problem would be joining the domain as when u have to reboot the xp machine u will lose the server as well so on reboot you will be unable to log onto the domain unless you could start this as a service pre xp logon.. thoughts...