I believe the issue is not the Virtual PC 2007 but the driver, Virtual Machine Network Driver, that accompanies the installation is not supported by Windows 10. I'll add that I am currently able to launch and run the emulator using the virtual network adapter on Windows 8.1, currently. I'll point out that I can launch and use the Windows Mobile 6.x emulator on Windows 10, but there is no network connectivity to the emulator because there is no driver to talk between the emulator and the computer's wireless card.
Portable Microsoft Virtual Pc 2007 Download
You are using theWin32 Device Emulator, correct? The forum for that emulator is -US/home?forum=microsoftdeviceemu. There was a standalone version of the driver. I think -us/download/details.aspx?id=2863 might work but I can vouch that it was never tested on Windows 10 and the driver model has drastically changed. If you can find some way to set a legacy mode, you may need that.
Today Virtual PC 2007 was released and available for download for free. Virtual PC and Virtual Server use the same file formats but provide different levels of functionality. I use Virtual PC at home currently because of the great drag-n-drop interface. It allows me to debug applications at any level without requiring a separate machine.
1) Install Virtual PC 2007 Before you install Microsoft's Device Emulator, you need to install a driver to enable the emulator to access your network. Microsoft no longer provides this driver as a standalone download, so you must download and install Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
If all you need is network connectivity, try using the Virtual Machine Network Driver, which unfortunately, is no longer available as a standalone download, but is part of Virtual PC 2007. I used to use Mobile Device Center and "cradle" the emulated device, but I've since switched to the VMNet driver; it takes a bit more initial setup, but after it's set up, you don't have to mess with it.
Hi there\\n\\nFirst (even before using Driver packs) you need to "Slipstream" SP2 into your Windows installation CD (you'll probably have to make a DVD as including the Driver packs will make the install "CD"around 750 - 800 MB.\\n\\nDo this using nLITE or any other tool --loads of info on the Web.\\n\\nNow extract the "Slipstreamed" data from the CD to a directory and THEN add the driverpacks using the method shown in the DRIVERPACK forum.\\n\\nJust select most of the driverpacks -- the one essentially for your disk drives (usually SATA in modern laptops) will be the Mass storage driver pack.\\n\\nCreate a bootable CD as per the web site instructions and it Should work unless you have a very strange laptop / motherboard.\\n\\nIf you don't slipstream SP2 first then Windows won't load the SATA drivers even if you made a CD with the drivers included.\\n\\nNote you will have to use an ORIGINAL INSTALL CD -- just copying the i386 directory from your current Windows installation is very unlikely to work.\\n\\nAn OEM Windows install CD will also work provided it is a "Real" windows install with a serial number. A recovery Image type of disk is no good. It has to be a bootable ORIGINAL Windows CD.\\n\\nIf you have an internal card reader you probably will need to find the driver from the manufacturer's site but that's another problem. A lot of Card reader stuff can be found fron avaratec.\\n\\nIMO it's well worth "De-Vista-ing"a computer especially a typical laptop as VISTA IMO is not really ready for prime time yet, and in any case M$ will support W2K3 until around 2012 so plenty of time to upgrade to VISTA once the initial quirks have been fixed. \\n\\nCheers\\n\\njimbo\",\"author\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"parentAuthor\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":2668892,\"creationDate\":1184654248000,\"activeRevisionId\":4868062,\"lastActivity\":1184654601000,\"parentId\":2667225,\"originalParentId\":2617925,\"likeCount\":0,\"visibility\":\"full\",\"depth\":0,\"attachments\":[],\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"relations\":\"canReport\":false,\"visibility\":\"full\",\"canEdit\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"isLiked\":false,\"type\":\"comment\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"canConvertToAnswer\":false,\"canBeModerated\":false,\"canViewRevisions\":false,\"showInReply\":false,\"reported\":false,\"canCancelReport\":false,\"canDelete\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canComment\":false,\"canViewReports\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"liked\":false,\"moderatorComment\":false}]},\"2622823\":\"rootParentId\":2622823,\"commentsCount\":1,\"comments\":[\"body\":\"Actually Microsoft's Virtual PC2007 is a REAL DOG compared with VMWARE workstation or Parallels.\\n\\nI'm running VMWARE workstation 6 on a 1GB laptop with intel core 2 Duo processor. Host is W2K3 server standard edition (customised to run as a workstation) whilst guest is a 512MB XP Pro system. Provided nothing much is running on the host you get more than acceptable performance from the ABAP trial version.\\n\\nHowever don't even THINK of running the JAVA trial unless you can give your VM 2GB of RAM.\\n\\nCheaper options for running a VM are Parallels (around 40 USD), VMWARE SERVER - Free, and VBOX the open source free virtualisation product.\\n\\nI use VM's since it saves all the hassle of uninstalling / registry cleaning etc etc.\\n\\nI have a base Windows XP PRO (already activated) VM system which I just clone and then re-install the relevant SAP Netweaver components.\\n\\nIncidentally if you have enough horsepower and RAM you can run 2(or more) VM's concurrently such as JAVA and ABAP (or 2 ABAP machines or a BW server etc) without the problems of tryng to get both machines on the same stack.\\n\\nCommunication between them can be done via standard networking since most VM systems provide virtual Network Interface Cards (VNIC's) so this is also a great way to go. I Wish I had 4GB on my laptop. \\n\\nBTW nice spec for that machine --I'm jealous.\\n\\nConsider this as well -- DON'T USE VISTA as a HOST.\\n\\nThe problem with VISTA is that it tries to be too clever by half. It tries to "Optimise" I/O based on what you have been previously doing. Now if you've been running SAP on a VM you are usually accessing large databases.\\n\\nSo Vista (remember running a VM is just an application as far as the host is concerned) will "Pre-fetch" the I/O just done and what you'll see is the disk(s) being extremely heavily used effectively slowing your machine down to a crawl for a LONG time even though you've shut down the VM. \\n\\nAs far as the HOST is concerned your SAP MAXDB is just another "discrete file" so the VISTA host will try and pre-load a HUGE chunk of it - and there's NOTHING you can do to stop this.\\n\\nThe original optimisation idea was actually quite good but like all these things wasn't properly thought out especially when running virtualisation applications. \\n\\nRe-installing XP / W2K3 server on a new laptop is also fraught with difficulties as win XP won't initially recognize new SATA drives. You'll get the famous "Windows cannot find any hard disks" message. \\n\\nHowever by Slipstreaming SP2 together with the SATA XP drivers it can be done and is well worth the effort if you want to run VM's.\\n\\nSlipstreaming is beyond the scope of this post but can be done easily with the help of a free utility program nLite. Just google for slipstreaming. You'll see loads of references.\\n\\nAlso note that your VM's can be located on external USB disks so you don't have to use the internal laptop drive.\\n\\nMost modern machines (including Laptops) have enough CPU power for running virtualisation products assuming you are not running too many applications concurrently (especially on the HOST OS). \\n\\nThe biggest requirement for a VM is RAM. This can't be stated enough. If you don't have enough RAM then forget running VM's.\\n\\nVM's just GOBBLE RAM for Breakfast. Disk space is also required but even modest laptops have 80/100/120GB drives sothis is really not an issue anymore and as I have posted above you can run VM's from USB external disks anyway.\\n\\nCheers and have fun with this stuff.\\n\\nJimbo\",\"author\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"parentAuthor\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":2636520,\"creationDate\":1184067580000,\"activeRevisionId\":4842563,\"lastActivity\":1184070051000,\"parentId\":2622823,\"originalParentId\":2617925,\"likeCount\":0,\"visibility\":\"full\",\"depth\":0,\"attachments\":[],\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"relations\":\"canReport\":false,\"visibility\":\"full\",\"canEdit\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"isLiked\":false,\"type\":\"comment\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"canConvertToAnswer\":false,\"canBeModerated\":false,\"canViewRevisions\":false,\"showInReply\":false,\"reported\":false,\"canCancelReport\":false,\"canDelete\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canComment\":false,\"canViewReports\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"liked\":false,\"moderatorComment\":false]}"); const simplifiedQuestionView = JSON.parse("true"); (function() window.pageContext = mergeDeep(pageContext, question: id: 2617925, plug: "installing-on-a-sap-was-on-a-virtual-server-runnin", votes: 2, questionTitle: "Installing on a SAP WAS on a Virtual Server running on a laptop", isClosed: false, isLocked: false, isRedirected: false, redirectedFromTitle: "", redirectedFromId: "", closedStatusData: JSON.parse(""), userVoted: false, relations: JSON.parse("\"canClose\":false,\"canUnredirect\":false,\"canReport\":false,\"visibility\":\"full\",\"canEdit\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"canReopen\":false,\"type\":\"question\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"canViewRevisions\":true,\"score\":2,\"canUnlock\":false,\"reported\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canLock\":false,\"canCancelReport\":false,\"canComment\":true,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"canViewReports\":false"), isQuestionAccepted: true , childToViewInfo: id: "" , comments: JSON.parse("\"2636857\":\"rootParentId\":2636857,\"commentsCount\":4,\"comments\":[\"body\":\"Hi there\\n\\nFirst (even before using Driver packs) you need to "Slipstream" SP2 into your Windows installation CD (you'll probably have to make a DVD as including the Driver packs will make the install "CD"around 750 - 800 MB.\\n\\nDo this using nLITE or any other tool --loads of info on the Web.\\n\\nNow extract the "Slipstreamed" data from the CD to a directory and THEN add the driverpacks using the method shown in the DRIVERPACK forum.\\n\\nJust select most of the driverpacks -- the one essentially for your disk drives (usually SATA in modern laptops) will be the Mass storage driver pack.\\n\\nCreate a bootable CD as per the web site instructions and it Should work unless you have a very strange laptop / motherboard.\\n\\nIf you don't slipstream SP2 first then Windows won't load the SATA drivers even if you made a CD with the drivers included.\\n\\nNote you will have to use an ORIGINAL INSTALL CD -- just copying the i386 directory from your current Windows installation is very unlikely to work.\\n\\nAn OEM Windows install CD will also work provided it is a "Real" windows install with a serial number. A recovery Image type of disk is no good. It has to be a bootable ORIGINAL Windows CD.\\n\\nIf you have an internal card reader you probably will need to find the driver from the manufacturer's site but that's another problem. A lot of Card reader stuff can be found fron avaratec.\\n\\nIMO it's well worth "De-Vista-ing"a computer especially a typical laptop as VISTA IMO is not really ready for prime time yet, and in any case M$ will support W2K3 until around 2012 so plenty of time to upgrade to VISTA once the initial quirks have been fixed. \\n\\nCheers\\n\\njimbo\",\"author\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"parentAuthor\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":2668892,\"creationDate\":1184654248000,\"activeRevisionId\":4868062,\"lastActivity\":1184654601000,\"parentId\":2667225,\"originalParentId\":2617925,\"likeCount\":0,\"visibility\":\"full\",\"depth\":0,\"attachments\":[],\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"relations\":\"canReport\":false,\"visibility\":\"full\",\"canEdit\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"isLiked\":false,\"type\":\"comment\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"canConvertToAnswer\":false,\"canBeModerated\":false,\"canViewRevisions\":false,\"showInReply\":false,\"reported\":false,\"canCancelReport\":false,\"canDelete\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canComment\":false,\"canViewReports\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"liked\":false,\"moderatorComment\":false],\"2622823\":\"rootParentId\":2622823,\"commentsCount\":1,\"comments\":[\"body\":\"Actually Microsoft's Virtual PC2007 is a REAL DOG compared with VMWARE workstation or Parallels.\\n\\nI'm running VMWARE workstation 6 on a 1GB laptop with intel core 2 Duo processor. Host is W2K3 server standard edition (customised to run as a workstation) whilst guest is a 512MB XP Pro system. Provided nothing much is running on the host you get more than acceptable performance from the ABAP trial version.\\n\\nHowever don't even THINK of running the JAVA trial unless you can give your VM 2GB of RAM.\\n\\nCheaper options for running a VM are Parallels (around 40 USD), VMWARE SERVER - Free, and VBOX the open source free virtualisation product.\\n\\nI use VM's since it saves all the hassle of uninstalling / registry cleaning etc etc.\\n\\nI have a base Windows XP PRO (already activated) VM system which I just clone and then re-install the relevant SAP Netweaver components.\\n\\nIncidentally if you have enough horsepower and RAM you can run 2(or more) VM's concurrently such as JAVA and ABAP (or 2 ABAP machines or a BW server etc) without the problems of tryng to get both machines on the same stack.\\n\\nCommunication between them can be done via standard networking since most VM systems provide virtual Network Interface Cards (VNIC's) so this is also a great way to go. I Wish I had 4GB on my laptop. \\n\\nBTW nice spec for that machine --I'm jealous.\\n\\nConsider this as well -- DON'T USE VISTA as a HOST.\\n\\nThe problem with VISTA is that it tries to be too clever by half. It tries to "Optimise" I/O based on what you have been previously doing. Now if you've been running SAP on a VM you are usually accessing large databases.\\n\\nSo Vista (remember running a VM is just an application as far as the host is concerned) will "Pre-fetch" the I/O just done and what you'll see is the disk(s) being extremely heavily used effectively slowing your machine down to a crawl for a LONG time even though you've shut down the VM. \\n\\nAs far as the HOST is concerned your SAP MAXDB is just another "discrete file" so the VISTA host will try and pre-load a HUGE chunk of it - and there's NOTHING you can do to stop this.\\n\\nThe original optimisation idea was actually quite good but like all these things wasn't properly thought out especially when running virtualisation applications. \\n\\nRe-installing XP / W2K3 server on a new laptop is also fraught with difficulties as win XP won't initially recognize new SATA drives. You'll get the famous "Windows cannot find any hard disks" message. \\n\\nHowever by Slipstreaming SP2 together with the SATA XP drivers it can be done and is well worth the effort if you want to run VM's.\\n\\nSlipstreaming is beyond the scope of this post but can be done easily with the help of a free utility program nLite. Just google for slipstreaming. You'll see loads of references.\\n\\nAlso note that your VM's can be located on external USB disks so you don't have to use the internal laptop drive.\\n\\nMost modern machines (including Laptops) have enough CPU power for running virtualisation products assuming you are not running too many applications concurrently (especially on the HOST OS). \\n\\nThe biggest requirement for a VM is RAM. This can't be stated enough. If you don't have enough RAM then forget running VM's.\\n\\nVM's just GOBBLE RAM for Breakfast. Disk space is also required but even modest laptops have 80/100/120GB drives sothis is really not an issue anymore and as I have posted above you can run VM's from USB external disks anyway.\\n\\nCheers and have fun with this stuff.\\n\\nJimbo\",\"author\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"parentAuthor\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":2636520,\"creationDate\":1184067580000,\"activeRevisionId\":4842563,\"lastActivity\":1184070051000,\"parentId\":2622823,\"originalParentId\":2617925,\"likeCount\":0,\"visibility\":\"full\",\"depth\":0,\"attachments\":[],\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"relations\":\"canReport\":false,\"visibility\":\"full\",\"canEdit\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"isLiked\":false,\"type\":\"comment\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"canConvertToAnswer\":false,\"canBeModerated\":false,\"canViewRevisions\":false,\"showInReply\":false,\"reported\":false,\"canCancelReport\":false,\"canDelete\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canComment\":false,\"canViewReports\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"liked\":false,\"moderatorComment\":false]"), answerPager: answersCount: 2, page: 1, pageSize: 10, pageCount: 1, sort: "votes" , answers: JSON.parse("[\"body\":\"Hi Adrian, \\n \\nshouldn't be a problem, but don't expect blazing performance ? (but your configuration's quite appealing...). \\n \\nI didn't try 2007 but the previous version (I think it was called 2003). No problems there, but we switched to VMWare since it could handle USB (which MS couldn't at that time). No problem there either... \\n \\nJust go for it... \\n \\nPeter \\n \\n-- \\nPoints always appreciated ?\",\"author\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":2622823,\"posted\":1183753581000,\"votes\":2,\"isAccepted\":true,\"isLocked\":false,\"userVoted\":\"\",\"relations\":\"score\":2,\"canCancelAccept\":false,\"canUnlock\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"accepted\":true,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canLock\":false,\"canAccept\":false,\"type\":\"answer\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"attachments\":[],\"body\":\"Many thanks Peter and James for your suggestions.\\n\\nRE: DON'T USE VISTA as a HOST.\\n>The problem with VISTA is that it tries to be too clever by half. It tries to "Optimise" I/O >based on what you have been previously doing. Now if you've been running SAP on a >VM there tends to be large databases. So Vista (remenber running a VM is just an >application as far as the host is concerned) will "Pre-fetch" the I/O just done and what >you'll see is the disk(s) being extremely heavily used effectively slowing your machine >down to a crawl for a LONG time even though you've shut down the VM.\\n\\nUnfortunately, the laptop I have just ordered (Dell XPS M1330 with Core Duo 2.2Ghz T7500 processor, 4GB RAM & 160GB 7200RPM HDD) didn't have Win2K3 Server as an option, and I went with Vista Ultimate 32-bit.\\n\\nWould there be any way that I can turn off the I/O optimisation while I am running the virtual machine under Vista? I will only be running the server intermittently - demos etc. That being the case, when you say LONG time -would the performance return to normal after a couple of days of not using the VM. I expect that given the spec of the notebook, that a slowed machine would still be acceptable for day-to-day stuff like Word, Excel & Outlook.\\n\\nMore often than not the notebook will be doing things that normal notebooks do - so I'd prefer it ran Vista which I think is a bit nicer. The high-end spec is just so I can run the occasional demo of a NetWeaver-based application. I guess I could always look making it dual-bootable, but that would also necessitate me purchasing another Win2K3 server license.\\n\\nRegards\\nAdrian\",\"author\":\"username\":\"former.member\",\"displayName\":\"Former Member\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":true,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":2636857,\"posted\":1184069719000,\"votes\":0,\"isAccepted\":false,\"isLocked\":false,\"userVoted\":\"\",\"relations\":\"canCancelAccept\":false,\"canUnlock\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canLock\":false,\"canAccept\":false,\"type\":\"answer\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"attachments\":[]]"), answerForm: formAction: "/answers/2617925/post.json", textareaName: "body", textareaErrors: "", isAttachmentsEnabled: true, answerEditorialGuideline: title: "Before answering", content: "You should only submit an answer when you are proposing a solution to the poster\'s problem. 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