I'm having difficulty with a virtual PC setup on my Windows 7 Professional box. I want to create a Virtual PC with Windows 2000 to run some legacy software. I have the Windows 2000 Professional install disk, and was able to successfully create the Virtual PC with that disk by following the instructions here.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449426(WS.10).aspx
The virtual PC boots up successfully. However, I'm unable to install integration components. I read the post below, but am still struggling with this.
From the VPC console, when I select Tools > Install Integration Components, a prompt appears "Install or update Windows Virtual PC Integration Components" with a Continue button. Upon selecting Continue, the following Desktop alert appears:
"Access to the specified device, path, or file is denied."
I have the IntegrationComponents files in a directory on the virtual PC. That consists of a Windows directory, an autorun.inf, and a 35KB setup.exe file. When I double click on the setup.exe file, the following message appears:
C:\IntegrationComponents\setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application.
One suggestion that I read from a link below was to install the old virtual PC additions.
So I downloaded the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Updated Additions from this URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a963433c-193b-41ac-af6e-ab7ab2db8541
But I can't figure out how to get this to run in the Virtual machine. All that I want to do at this point is to be able to resize the Virtual PC window, because 646x542 pixels is too small to work with, and either get Integration Components working or the Virtual PC Additions working on it.
Are there some step-by-step instructions posted somewhere to get a Windows 2000 virtual PC installed on a Windows 7 machine? Thanks for your help.