It took ten+ real minutes to complete one Longhorn install minute for me and the estimated time was 15-25 minutes. :(

Took about an hour for me, but did finally complete. It then took another 30 minutes before the VPC tools would successfully install to get the video driver that goes above 16 colors. That was frustrating, as I did nothing different in the 7-8 attempts. It just worked, finally.

One guy I talked to said just the hardware detection routing took over an hour and a half (on top of a half hour install time). I'm still in the middle of the hardware detection phase (actually, I'm really hoping I'm near the end not the middle) but I'll let you know.

I'm trying to get it running on 5.2 (on a notebook too).

Through the 10 minutes hardware detect took hour+.

Got it installed and its running but am stuck in Video driver hell. It's not finding the S3 Trio64 driver, so is reverting to the Standard VGA driver (which bites).

By Uninstalling that driver and restarting the VPC session I get a nice video/color. Reboot again and it's back to crap... I've gone through this cycle a couple times. So I guess I'll just never reboot the session (love the VPC "Save state option).

During the 2nd reboot, after uninstalling the Standard VGA driver, the video driver = "", blank, nothing, etc, but I get a nice range of color/resolution choices... weird.

sigh... I love pre-beta's :)

(BTW, When I try to install the VPC additions, the setup complains "Win9x, NT, 2000, XP only"

Found this as I continued to hunt this down..

http://davebost.com/blog/posts/146.aspx
"Virtual PC Beta 4 is loaded and Longhorn is installed. Drum-roll please.......Doh! What's with this 4bit color scheme??? Ahh... I need to learn how to read the 'Read Me' file. I need to install the Virtual PC Additions. Done. And Presto... Here's Longhorn running in a Virtual PC session on my laptop:"

Even though I'm using VPC 5.2 (from MSDN), I installed the Virtual Machine Additions from PDC DVD #2, rebooted and now I seem to be gold...

I tried this and left it running over the weekend because it was taking so long. 256MB RAM on a virtual disk. Came in on Monday to see a KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR (STOP 0x0000007A (..., 0xC000009D, ...), which is apprently a disk error. CLASSPNP.SYS at F96D£EAE, F96CA000

I wonder what I can do different next time...

Am having trouble installing VPC Additions. It says i need to run ISScript.msi b4 running the Additions Setup... It's getting late... Will try tomorrow... Hope I will not get stuck with this 4 bit color scheme 8(

Yay! I got it working. Second time I ran the Additions Setup it was fine. Now I finaly got rid of the nasty 4 bit color thing 8)

ali reza

sounds pretty time consuming, just found this page while searching for why it takes so long to detect hardware, yeh vpc makes longhorn take alot longer 2 install, im half way through hardware detction

I had the same problem with running Longhorn on VPC, but thanks to this post, I am not running into any issues. The 4-bit color is aweful and yes, I was much to lazy to read the readme file. Thanks!

-Mike

Hardware detection started at 19:50. It is now 13:04 the next day and still detecting

Hey Y'all!

minimum memory - anything above 512 - VPC2004

» resolves the 10min HW detection problem, successfully in under 4 hours

» once installed - the VPC Additions can resolve te nasty the 4-bit color.

The Lone Ranger!

Hey Y'all!

Answer to both problems lie in the minimum memory required - anything above 544 for VPC2004 will:

» resolve the 10min HW detection problem, successfully in under 4 hours

» once installed - the VPC Additions can resolve the nasty 4-bit color.

The Lone Ranger!

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