Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. The most frustrating search I've ever made. Saturday, February 18, PM. Sunday, February 19, PM. What would be the point of installing a VM inside a VM?
You might be able to do it, but it would not be efficient. Each VM is another layer of software that emulates a hardware plaform.
The install takes about as long as it would on a normal hard drive, but instead of asking what partition of your hard drive it should live in, it shows only unpartitioned space on the virtual hard drive you've already set up.
The install then proceeds normally, within one window of your PC rather than taking up the whole thing. Warning: The VM doesn't know it's not the only computer on your computer. So when you click on anything in its window, will capture the cursor and not let it go again, which would be really embarrassing if anyone wandered in to see why you were cursing at your laptop.
To free your cursor, hit the right ALT key. After setup, walk through the configuration screen and type in a valid Windows key for the version of the OS you installed.
Before you can do anything interesting you have to install a set of add-ons that allow Virtual PC to do things like share folders, share the clipboard and drag-and-drop things between the VM window and the host OS. It will pop up a window asking you to confirm, and then disappear as if you were kidding.
Open the folder appropriate to your host OS and run the application inside. Then reboot the VM. Like most things virtual, loading applications or accessing data on the host machine is like walking across a transparent bridge.
Once you know it's there, it's simple; until you do, you're stuck. The bridge in this case is the Shared Folder. Just as with two physically separate machines, you can exchange data or applications through a Shared Folder that both have permission to use. Create one from the VM window.
Click on Edit in the menu bar, pull down to Settings and look for the Shared Folders icon toward the bottom. Choose it, navigate to a folder on the host machine that you can use to move documents or application setup files between your real and virtual machines, and click OK.
The shared folder becomes a network drive for the VM. Then just launch the setup for the new application. Don't forget to install all the security updates for the new OS and install whatever anti-virus or other security software you have on the host OS. Create one from the VM window. Click on Edit in the menu bar, pull down to Settings and look for the Shared Folders icon toward the bottom.
Choose it, navigate to a folder on the host machine that you can use to move documents or application setup files between your real and virtual machines, and click OK. The shared folder becomes a network drive for the VM. Then just launch the setup for the new application. And another couple of warnings, from Bob Arnson , who works for Microsoft on its App-V team, but blogs as his own geek. Step 5: Install Additions Before you can do anything interesting you have to install a set of add-ons that allow Virtual PC to do things like share folders, share the clipboard and drag-and-drop things between the VM window and the host OS.
Step 6: Load Applications Like most things virtual, loading applications or accessing data on the host machine is like walking across a transparent bridge. Well, almost. If you defrag your hard drive, exclude the humungous swap file the virtual PC creates check Options in your defragger , or it will take forever to complete. Keep an eye on available disk space, especially on a notebook. Shut it down to free up system resources for the rest of your work. When you launch a VM it still needs an operating system and applications, which take time to set up the first time around.
You can clone your main OS with tools such as Acronis True Image , but it still takes time to do the install.
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