Dumb XP Virtual Machine within Vista Question

If I install XP as a virtual machine under Vista, will XP still
overwrite the MBR on the system drive or is the entire XP boot process
virualized?

Any difference using VirtualBox, VMware, etc.?
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Jay (remove dashes for legal email address)

Having just done it using Virtual PC 2007, I can confirm that the entire
XP installation is virtualised.
Only problem I've got is the only XP disk I have is SP1, currently
installing 61 updates and no sign of SP2 yet!


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mb76

"Jay Somerset" <jay-1941-@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> If I install XP as a virtual machine under Vista, will XP still
> overwrite the MBR on the system drive or is the entire XP boot process
> virualized?

The whole thing is virtualized, the only hard disk it'll be able to see is
the virtual hard disk it creates, which is just a file on your real file
system.

> Any difference using VirtualBox, VMware, etc.?

They all work the same way as far as I know.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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Hi,

Everything is virtualized. A benefit of some of the other products is that
some include support for USB peripherals. Virtual PC does not.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Jay Somerset" <jay-1941-@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> If I install XP as a virtual machine under Vista, will XP still
> overwrite the MBR on the system drive or is the entire XP boot process
> virualized?
>
> Any difference using VirtualBox, VMware, etc.?
> --
> Jay (remove dashes for legal email address)

In message <mb76.35viz1@no-mx.forums.net> mb76
<mb76.35viz1@no-mx.forums.net> wrote:

>Having just done it using Virtual PC 2007, I can confirm that the entire
>XP installation is virtualised.
>Only problem I've got is the only XP disk I have is SP1, currently
>installing 61 updates and no sign of SP2 yet!

You're probably going about that backward, if you install the service
pack first you'll probably find a lot less updates needed.

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 21:18:30 -0500, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Everything is virtualized. A benefit of some of the other products is that
>some include support for USB peripherals. Virtual PC does not.

Thanks to you and the others who responded.
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Jay (remove dashes for legal email address)