VPC 2004 and XP SP2 ?

[Paul Lynch]

Hi,

I've just built a slipstreamed XP SP2 RTM disk and built a new VM with
it in VPC 2004 and its still painfully slow, as was RC1 and RC2.
Wasn't this supposed to be fixed as of RTM or have I got this wrong
and it will be addressed in VPC SP1 ?

What are other people's experiences ?

The host machine is XP Pro (still at SP1a + hotfixes) on an Athlon
1.47 with 768MB memory. All other VM's run perfectly OK.

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

[Paul Adare - MVP - Microsoft Virtual PC]

In article <n77kh0pq92tf6eo2r...@4ax.com>, in the
microsoft.public.virtualpc news group, Paul Lynch
<paul....@nospam.com> says...

> I've just built a slipstreamed XP SP2 RTM disk and built a new VM with
> it in VPC 2004 and its still painfully slow, as was RC1 and RC2.
> Wasn't this supposed to be fixed as of RTM or have I got this wrong
> and it will be addressed in VPC SP1 ?
>

No this was not going to be addressed in RTM, not sure where you got
that idea.

As for when it will be fixed, not sure that has been announced as of
yet.

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[Paul Lynch]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:30:51 -0400, Paul Adare - MVP - Microsoft
Virtual PC <pad...@newsguy.com> wrote:

>In article <n77kh0pq92tf6eo2r...@4ax.com>, in the
>microsoft.public.virtualpc news group, Paul Lynch
><paul....@nospam.com> says...
>
>> I've just built a slipstreamed XP SP2 RTM disk and built a new VM with
>> it in VPC 2004 and its still painfully slow, as was RC1 and RC2.
>> Wasn't this supposed to be fixed as of RTM or have I got this wrong
>> and it will be addressed in VPC SP1 ?
>>

Paul,

>No this was not going to be addressed in RTM, not sure where you got
>that idea.

I *thought* I'd read in a post from Ben Armstrong some time ago that
it would be addressed in SP2 RTM - I must have been mistaken.

>As for when it will be fixed, not sure that has been announced as of
>yet.

OK, thanks. How are you finding SP2 VM's ? Still slow ?

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

[Paul Lynch]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:30:51 -0400, Paul Adare - MVP - Microsoft
Virtual PC <pad...@newsguy.com> wrote:

>In article <n77kh0pq92tf6eo2r...@4ax.com>, in the
>microsoft.public.virtualpc news group, Paul Lynch
><paul....@nospam.com> says...
>
>> I've just built a slipstreamed XP SP2 RTM disk and built a new VM with
>> it in VPC 2004 and its still painfully slow, as was RC1 and RC2.
>> Wasn't this supposed to be fixed as of RTM or have I got this wrong
>> and it will be addressed in VPC SP1 ?
>>
>
>No this was not going to be addressed in RTM, not sure where you got
>that idea.
>
>As for when it will be fixed, not sure that has been announced as of
>yet.

Paul,

I tracked down Ben's original post. You are right and this 'issue'
will still persist in SP2 RTM :

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=OUdZAkEEEHA.1452%40TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl

Ho hum....

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

[Benjamin Armstrong [MSFT]]

We are currently working on VPC SP1 - which should be out soon - and should
address this issue.

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[Chris Tanger]

Does this bug become prevalent when the VMs are running SP2 or when the
host is running SP2? In other words, can I upgrade my host to SP2 safely?

-Chris Tanger

[Steve Jain]

YOu can upgrade your host, its SP2 in and XP VM where the issue
arises.

Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows
Website: http://www.essjae.com
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