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Windows 7’s XP Mode is essentially a Windows XP virtual machine that runs in the new Windows 7 version of Virtual PC. This new edition of Virtual PC includes cool features such as seamless windows. The main reason I’m interested in this is to run older versions of Internet Explorer for testing purposes. I installed Win7 RTM version Professional and unfortunately the procedure doesn’t seem to work there.The first steps are identical, but when I choose the “differencing disk” the next step is not “choose a parent virtual hard disk” but:“Choose a name and location for the virtual hard disk file” and that way there is no option to choose the existing vhdEither there is a different in the way it works between Pro and Ultimate or the procedure has been changed.What version did you work with RC or RTM?Ashame this is one of the features I want to be using on a daily basisThanks for the Howto. Good trick, but now I imagine you have 3 “computers” to take care of instead of just one.
I’ve always just used XP (dual booted on top of Tiger, Leopard, and now Snow Leopard with Boot Camp and Parallels Desktop) and just upgraded / downgraded between 6, 7 and 8 whenever I needed to check for compatibility. My advice is it’s easier to just upgrade and downgrade the browser when you need it, than to have two more Windows operating systems continually update. Of course, you would need Windows XP in order to run IE6. Henk: carry on from where you were, once you choose the advanced options and differentiation disk, you repeat some options and.then.
it provides you the source disk.Another tip: I couldn’t find the ‘source’ of the XP mode disk very easily, I think the new instructions from Microsoft lead you to create a differentiated disk to start with. So I went to the VMs folder, right-clicked on the XPmode disk, chose settings, and then looked at the second file location in under the hard-drive settings: its parent’s location.D. Estabrook: I’ve had problems with IE tester and JavaScript, where the rendering through it was nothing like IE6 in a virtual machine.
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I’m not sure the JS rendering is separated.Thanks for the how-to Duncan, I’ve bookmarked it as I’m sure I’ll need to point others here! @Thodsaphon, @Bobby, @AuthorI think that when you base a new ‘virtual machine differencing disk’ on an existing ‘parent’ disk, the existing parent disk should be considered read only. If you modified it (basically already when you start it), it can go horribly wrong.from the MS documentation:“We recommend that you write-protect or lock the parent disk before using the differencing disk. Otherwise, if the parent disk is modified by some other process, all differencing disks related to it become invalid, and all data written to the differencing disks is lost.
You also need to modify the virtual machine by replacing the parent disk with differencing disk, otherwise you will receive an error when you try to start the virtual machine because it cannot use a read-only disk.”. Hi,Nice article. I am having one slight issue though. When it comes to logging in, I followed the install steps, and got my second version of xp up and running, however when I enabled integration features, I got a host machine logon box, asking for login credentials. I tried providing the credentials in the form of:Administrator‘Password’XPIE7Administrator‘Password’XPIE7/Administrator‘Password’Each time I get an XP’s login box rejecting the credentials and I know why – because the Windows 7 login box prepends the host machine’s domain (which is just my computer name) to the username, and this fails. I then have to remove both the domain, and XPIE7 from the username within tthe XP login box (leaving just Administrator as the username), and it logs in fine.I don’t have this problem with the original XP mode VM, as this has the correct saved credentials. I just want to be in a situation where the VM will start and log in automatically particularly as I would like to run multiple IE’s for browser testing simultaneously without having to login to each VM every time.Any suggestions as to how to fix this would be awesome.Cheers,Alex.
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Hi Duncan,Thanks for the response, however, I have literally just managed to correct this issue, and thought I would share my resolution with everyone on here.To change the username that the host machine sends the VM when it starts up, I found out where windows stores this information, so I could edit it.In the VM’s setting’s (right click on VM, the click settings) this will show the various settings that you can change, and will also show you what credentials are stored against the VM.To change these, you need to navigate to Credentials Manager. Go to control panel on the host, and search for credentials manager. Under ‘Generic Credentials’ you will find the credentials that are stored for the VM’s on your box (if you have stored any credentials).Drop the arrow down to expand the relevant VM details, and then click on edit to change any of these fields.In my case, I just had to change the Username to Administrator, and the VM will now automatically logon.I can now login automatically, and now get all the IE’s up and running.Thanks again for the informative article.Alex.