Monday, January 24, 2011

Running Virtual PC 2007 Image within a Hyper-V Image

This is interesting!!! I was discussing this topic with bunch of my colleagues, one of my colleagues told me that we cannot run a virtualized image within a virtualized image. He said I watched too much of INCEPTION!!!

Today, I decided to do an investigation on that. I setup a Windows 7 image running in Hyper-V mode and then installed Virtual PC 2007 inside the virtualized Windows 7. I import an existing Windows XP image with the Virtual PC 2007 and then start the image. Guess what!!! It works fantastically!!! =)

This shows that the INCEPTION idea is working, doing virtualization within a virtualized environment…

5 comments:

  1. Hi Hau,
    I too tried a similar scenario but instead of Win 7 i used windows xp image in Hyper-V and ran the Windows xp virtual pc.
    But the problem i faced was, Windows xp virtual pc could not detect the network adapater. Can you please help me to resolve this issue

    Regards
    Suthan

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  2. It could be drivers issue. Try install the virtual drivers to the XP.

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    1. Hi Hua,

      i tried re-installing the drivers on XP but still showing as "Limited or no connectivity"
      Hyper V network adapter not getting recoganized in Microsoft virtual PC 2007

      Regards
      Suthan

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  3. Hi Hua,

    i tried re-installing the drivers on XP but still showing as "Limited or no connectivity"
    Hyper V network adapter not getting recoganized in Microsoft virtual PC 2007

    Regards
    Suthan

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  4. This is interesting!!! I was discussing this topic with bunch of my colleagues, one of my colleagues told me that we cannot run a virtualized image within a virtualized image. He said I watched too much of INCEPTION!!!
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