Windows Vista Virtual Machine Download
Sherilyn Peacher
Upon successfully installing a Windows or Linux operating system using VirtualBox, it is essential to establish the Guest Additions software to enable the utilization of the host hardware within the virtual machine.
After installing the necessary software for your virtual machine, try to copy a text document from your host PC by dragging and dropping it into your guest machine. The file transfer works if you see +Copy next to the file, as in the image below.
When you view the shared folder on My Computer in the virtual machine, you can see that it is added as a network drive in the Network Location section. Likewise, you can see that the public folder is active in VBOXSVR over Network.
Suppose you attempt to connect a USB 3.0/3.1 supported flash stick to your virtual machine without enabling 3.0 support. In that case, you will encounter an error pointing out that your storage device cannot be added.
Upon inserting the flash memory device into your virtual system, the device will be recognized and ready for use once the USB Mass Storage Device driver is established. When you view My Computer on the guest machine, you can see that the KINGSTON branded USB memory is usable by the system.
I have a LEGAL OEM Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit DVD (with original/unshared serial sticker) that I'm no longer using since I moved to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I wanted to reuse my Vista in a Virtual Machine on the same PC as my Windows 7 to test apps on "legacy" Windows. To do so I use the latest version of Microsoft Virtual PC. Unfortunatly I can't install Vista since the virtual machine isn't recognized as 64-bit...
that said, it's probably not legal to do so, since your OEM license is tied to the physical hardware and using a virtualized machine is a different computer, technically speaking ... but then, i'm not a lawyer :)
I am a bit of a newb with virtual machines, so go easy on me. I am currently dual-booting Windows 7 and Windows Vista. I want to convert the Vista installation into a virtual machine, and then remove that physical partition (the virtual hard disk will be on my USB drive).
I managed to create a virtual hard disk of Vista using the 'Disk2vhd' application. However, when I try to create a virtual machine in Virtual PC 2007 (running on my Windows 7), Vista doesn't load. Safe load doesn't work either, and gets stuck on crcdisk.sys.
VirtualBox emulates a virtual computer inside of your computer. This means that when it runs an operating system, it presents the operating system with a specific set of hardware devices that are different from the host machine. VB then translates any hardware requests the guest operating system (Vista in this case) makes, and uses your PCs real hardware.
On a related note, I personally ran a Vista virtual machine for around 4 months, and I could barely use it as it was so slow. Part of this problem is related to my computer though, so your mileage may vary.
First I installed Vmware player 6.0.4, than KB4493458 (not KB4493471). Hal.dll got upgraded to version 6003. After the installation had finished i launched a ready Windows ME virtual machine inside the Vista VM:
On boot an "The "vmStatsProvider" can not be initialized. "vmGuestLib" returns error "VMware Guest API is not enabled on the host" (3)." error gets logged, but this is likely because i'm running one virtual machine inside another.
I have tried ping the ubuntu virtual machine, but it was not working. So i believe root cause for this is, some bridging between Host & Guest is not enabled. Since i am very new to Ubuntu, am not able to troubleshoot this.
Configure virtual machine to use Host only network adapter and enable internet connection sharing on your Vista host. I believe this will solve your problem. If you are not able to access internet on guest then try using windows IP as default gateway in your Ubuntu guest.
VMWServer does have USB support. You just need to install a virtual USB controller (as simple as shutting the machine down, going into the Hardware Specs and adding it). Then you will have the option to pass through USB devices to the Virtual Machine.
Assume that you have a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based virtual machine that is running on a VMware host server. You try to back up the system state of the virtual machine by running the following command:
Note: The issue described in the Symptoms section is not limited to virtual machines running on VMware host or Hyper-V host. The issue can also occur on a Physical machine that is running Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based operating system.
For more information about the wbadmin start systemstatebackup command, go to the following Microsoft website:
I assigned the bluetooth host controller to the guest and vista detected it. I installed the driver that boot camp is providing for my computer and for 32bit windows, which is broadcom 4.0.3.0 from 2011. The driver installs fine, but the device fails with code 43. I am stuck here. I can't find any different driver or see what the issue with the code 43 is. Any newer drivers I saw are large installers (>120MB) that fail installation when they can't detect the "bluetooth device".
But I'll bet that most of my readers are exactly the kinds of people that end up buying retail copies of Windows and installing them on many different machines - or virtual machines, as I discussed above. Windows Activation, introduced with Windows XP, insures that you don't install the same copy of Windows on more than one machine at a time. That's fine - annoying, but fine. But clause 15 of the new Vista EULA - "REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE" - goes way beyond that.
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