![]() You should have download an Vista DVD image (only ISO format is accepted), then click on “CD” menu on the virtual machine window, and then choose “Capture ISO image”.Now, if you have a Windows Vista DVD, insert it into DVD drive now and press Enter. A new window loading all sort of boot message will be display, and will stop at the following screen: The virtual PC (you can consider it as a computer) is booting up without operating system.In the Virtual PC Console, select the virtual machine that has just been created, and click Start.After finishing configuring your virtual PC, click Finish. In the rest of the process, you can set or adjust the size of memory to allocate to the VM, specify virtual hard disk location or create a new one, and set the size of the virtual hard disk size (all options can be kept as default or recommended values). ![]() The in the “New Virtual Machine Wizard”, select “Create a virtual machine radio” button, click “Next”, then specify where you want to store the virtual machine file (you can use Browse to select), click “Next”, and then select “Windows Vista” as the operating system that you plan to install on this VM. Run Microsoft Virtual PC and click on “New” button to start the New Virtual Machine Wizard. ![]() To install Windows Vista in a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine without DVD media and DVD-ROM drive If you indeed interested in trying out Windows Vista in a virtual computer without additional hardware, but only has Windows Vista ISO DVD image downloaded, and do not want to burn or write the ISO image to a DVD, it’s possible to install Windows Vista directly with the ISO image with Virtual PC 2007. If a user lack of extra computer, the user can download and install Virtual PC 2007 (VPC2007) on their existing system (host OS) in order to to install another guest operating system such as Windows Vista on the same machine. Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is a free virtual machine virtualization software from Microsoft that includes native support for Windows Vista operating system as host and guest operating system. ![]()
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