VPC On VMWare

Does anyone know if there are issues hosting VPCs on virtualized servers? eg
VMWare.

I've got VPC2007 installed on a VMWare Windows Server 2003 - Standard
Edition which are listed as compatible. However when I start the VPCs I only
get black screens. I have confirmed the test VPC works on a non-virtualized
server.

Any ideas?

thanks

If you're not getting an error about nested virtualization, most
likely that's not really just a black screen, it's that the VM is
********SLOW*********, especially at POST, minutes just for that.

You really don't want to be doing this, even if it worked it would be
painfully slow for whoever's using the VM's.

--
Bob Comer




On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:12:01 -0800, Bob <>
wrote:

>Does anyone know if there are issues hosting VPCs on virtualized servers? eg
>VMWare.
>
>I've got VPC2007 installed on a VMWare Windows Server 2003 - Standard
>Edition which are listed as compatible. However when I start the VPCs I only
>get black screens. I have confirmed the test VPC works on a non-virtualized
>server.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>thanks

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:12:01 -0800, Bob <>
wrote:

>Does anyone know if there are issues hosting VPCs on virtualized servers? eg
>VMWare.

Yes, it usually won't work, it's unsupported, and if it does work,
your VMs will be so slow they'll be unusable and unstable.

>
>I've got VPC2007 installed on a VMWare Windows Server 2003 - Standard
>Edition which are listed as compatible. However when I start the VPCs I only
>get black screens. I have confirmed the test VPC works on a non-virtualized
>server.
>
>Any ideas?

Run all your VMs in VMWare Server.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/

" Run all your VMs in VMWare Server. "

hi Steve,

do you mean it is possible to open VPC 2007 files
from VMWare?

thanks,
Carlos

You would have to convert them to VMWare.

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Bob Comer




On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:35:28 -0500, "arturo" <> wrote:

>" Run all your VMs in VMWare Server. "
>
> hi Steve,
>
> do you mean it is possible to open VPC 2007 files
> from VMWare?
>
> thanks,
>Carlos
>

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:35:28 -0500, "arturo" <> wrote:

>" Run all your VMs in VMWare Server. "
>
> hi Steve,
>
> do you mean it is possible to open VPC 2007 files
> from VMWare?
>
> thanks,
>Carlos
>
you can indeed, after converting:
http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/get.html

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/