New to VPC

So apologies, no doubt these question have been asked many times before.
I am running Virtual PC 2007.
Host is Vista Business.
Guest OS is Windows 2003 Server SP1.
I have shared my ADSL connection with the guest OS so can access the Net.

How is the guest OD protected? e.g. AV etc?
Am I correct in thinking that my guest OS is a complete sandpit and that no
windows updates done on the guest will have any adverse effects on my host?

I have allocated 1GB memory to the guest but the mouse is still a little
jerky.
Any way to improve this?

"Jack" <> wrote in message
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> So apologies, no doubt these question have been asked many times before.
> I am running Virtual PC 2007.
> Host is Vista Business.
> Guest OS is Windows 2003 Server SP1.
> I have shared my ADSL connection with the guest OS so can access the Net.
>
> How is the guest OD protected? e.g. AV etc?
> Am I correct in thinking that my guest OS is a complete sandpit and that
> no windows updates done on the guest will have any adverse effects on my
> host?
>
> I have allocated 1GB memory to the guest but the mouse is still a little
> jerky.
> Any way to improve this?


Ignore AV part of question, got my answer thanks to the FAQ posted here.

The additions run just fine on Windows 2003 guests.

--
Bob Comer





On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:05:20 +0100, "Mark Rae [MVP]"
<> wrote:

>"Jack" <> wrote in message
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>
>> I have allocated 1GB memory to the guest but the mouse is still a little
>> jerky. Any way to improve this?
>
>Ordinarily, installing the VM Additions would fix things like this. However,
>as Windows Server 2003 isn't a supported guest OS for VPC 2007, there
>(probably) won't be any Additions for it...
>
>How much RAM does the host machine have?

Robert Comer wrote:
> The additions run just fine on Windows 2003 guests.

.... and on HomeServer, which is Server 2003 underneath.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

Yep.

Still not having any problems with that combo? I always ran into db
corruption after about 2 or 3 weeks, I never did figure out why. And
that's with external or internal drives. It had to be some timing
issue, probably something when the cleanup was running it wasn't
getting enough CPU or something, I haven't tried it on my faster quad
core machine yet. Of course there's been a lot of fixes since when I
tried it too...

--
Bob Comer


On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:18:23 -0400, David Wilkinson
<no-> wrote:

>Robert Comer wrote:
>> The additions run just fine on Windows 2003 guests.
>
>... and on HomeServer, which is Server 2003 underneath.

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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> "Jack" <> wrote in message
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>
>> I have allocated 1GB memory to the guest but the mouse is still a little
>> jerky. Any way to improve this?
>
> Ordinarily, installing the VM Additions would fix things like this.
> However, as Windows Server 2003 isn't a supported guest OS for VPC 2007,
> there (probably) won't be any Additions for it...
>
> How much RAM does the host machine have?
>
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net


2GB physical on this PC so that's 1GB each

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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> "Jack" <> wrote in message
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>
>>>> I have allocated 1GB memory to the guest but the mouse is still a
>>>> little jerky. Any way to improve this?
>>>
>>> Ordinarily, installing the VM Additions would fix things like this.
>>> However, as Windows Server 2003 isn't a supported guest OS for VPC 2007,
>>> there (probably) won't be any Additions for it...
>>>
>>> How much RAM does the host machine have?
>>
>> 2GB physical on this PC so that's 1GB each
>
> Have you installed the Additions...?
>
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net


Have now, haven't fired up the image since doing so... yet.
No idea what was installed.