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Old April 21st 17, 11:46 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Roger Mills[_2_]
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Default Virtual XP won't start

On 21/04/2017 11:21, Paul wrote:
Roger Mills wrote:
On 21/04/2017 10:23, Paul wrote:

Summary: Delete the .vsv and retry... You're deleting the
hiberfile when doing that, and Windows could (worst case)
need to tidy up on the next run, using CHKDSK.

Paul



Thanks. I'll have a close look at that.


In a way, this is like real physical machines. If you
hibernate WinXP over and over and over again... eventually
it'll fall over. Things like memory errors, even if the
background rate is low, can accumulate over time. and it's
not clear there is any recovery mechanism for hiberated
machines - short of truly shutting them down and
rebooting them properly.

The default setup when I tested just now, is the Settings
panel for Virtual PC defines "Power button = hibernate".
I changed from the default, selected "Shutdown" instead,
and the .vsv file can disappear at shutdown as a result.

To operate the machine, instead of using "logout" in the
Start menu, I've been using my old standby, the Alt-F4
hotkey sequence. As that offers the rest of the shutdown
options. You should also be able to get that from Task
Manager, if you wanted.

I'm surprised mine hasn't tipped over yet, I've been
having so much fun with it. Windows Updates... almost done.

Have fun,
Paul


My virtual machine is set to shut down when the application closes. I
can't find any .vsv.files.

My wife's main computer at home is still running XP. When we go away
from home (we're away now) for a few days we take the Win 7 Pro laptop
and she uses the Virtual XP Machine on it. Her data is all on an
external USB drive, so we're not desperate to get at the data on the
virtual machine, but it's annoying that she can't run her legacy
applications.

This was set up using the laptop's original HDD - which was then cloned
onto an SSD. I think the HDD is still intact in a cupboard back at home.
I'm tempted to copy all of the virtual machine files from that onto the
SSD, on the assumptions that the files on the SSD have somehow got
corrupted. Do you think that might work?
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Cheers,
Roger
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