Windows 95 and VPC Additions under VPC 2007 RC1

There's an annoying bug under VPC 2007 Beta and RC1 with Windows 95. When you
try to install the VPC Additions under a newly and clean installed Windows 95
you get this error:

Error Starting Program

The SETUP.EXE file is
linked to missing export KERNEL32.DLL:IsDebuggerPresent.

Any ideas about this bug?

 

It's not a bug. The additions that come with VPC 2007 are not supported,
and will not install in Win95. You can however use additions from VPC 2004
in Win95.

 

If it's not supported, what's the spirit of VPC? trying only newly operating
systems pfffffffff. The idea was to have OLD OS under a newer OS, that point
was lost somewhere.
However even if it's not supported, they could at least give it as an
warning in the VPC Additions installation so it would be CLEAR not to be
supported.
It would be nice for VPC 2007 to include at least ALL the Additions that
isn't supported anymore as a separate archive or something. Or better more,
to make the setup program installing the old VPC 2004 Additions cause I don't
want start installing old versions of VPC, getting the Additions file,
uninstalling VPC 2004 and reinstalling VPC 2007. It's ANNOYING.
Anyone knows where I can find the latest VPC 2004 Additions file?
Thank you in advance.

Thank you very much anyway Robert.

 

If it's not supported, what's the spirit of VPC? trying only newly

It'll still run without additions, and the older additions do work. It's
just the new additions that wont work.

I agree with you on that. The problem is the installer is just not
compatible with Win95, so it doesn't run far enough to tell you.

The 2004 additions can be distributed, but the file is kind of big to send
via email.

 

Don't worry Robert, I did the annoying part uninstalled VPC 2007,
reinstalled VPC 2004, copied the VPC Additions, uninstalled VPC 2004 and
reinstalled VPC 2007. LOL!, I think this would be solved on some way, it's
not a good thing to do for a user.

Thank you again Robert.

 

Don't worry Robert, I did the annoying part uninstalled VPC 2007,

We'll figure out some way to be able to download it or something...

You're welcome!

 

Well said.

With hindsight, I think someone should have argued this more strongly
before now.

Note: I think they are present in Virtual Server 2005 ATM. So
installing VS 2005, copying & uninstalling that saves having to
uninstall & reinstall VPC 2007.

& the virtual disk precompactor ... & the MS-DOS additions ... & the NT4
network driver please.

Perhaps the question of how to keep these available could be combined
with the Additions for Linux in some way.

I notice now that the VPC2007 .chm help file still describes, for
example, installing the MS-DOS additions, despite saying elsewhere that
they are no longer present.

Regards

 

A faster way would have been to install VPC 2004 in a VPC 2007 VM and
grab the Additions ISO from there.

The old Connectix trick of holding down the CTRL key while
double-clicking the setup.exe still allows VPC to be installed in a
VM.

 

Note: I think they are present in Virtual Server 2005 ATM. So installing

Good point, I hadn't even thought of that, but I'm not so sure that's going
to be available when VS2005 R2 SP1 is released.

Those too...

I'm not sure that can happen, the Linux additions never were supported or
distributed with VPC.

--
Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP Windows - Virtual Machine>

 

The old Connectix trick of holding down the CTRL key while

Cool, I had never heard of that trick.

 

[snip]

I have to agree, /that's/ really cool. The solution for getting files from
a .msi-installer is a tool I've come across shortly, "lessmsi.exe". Do
a google for"Lessmsierables" - you speak french? ;-)

Regards,

Kai-Uwe