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From: ohaya on 2 Feb 2010 00:20
Hi,

Does it eventually get all the way into Windows, ever?

A couple of things I've tried are:

- If your system has more than 1 CPU, start Task Manager and right click
on "VirtualPC.exe" in processes, and select "Affinity", and check only
one CPU.

- Try to shutdown the guest, and then re-create the guest (.VMX file)
again from scratch.

Those haven't worked for me all the time, but doing those, and killing
the guest, and starting again, I can *SOMETIMES* eventually get all the
way into Windows.

For now, I have tried to avoid shutting down Windows, and do "Save"
instead, if I can.

I wish I could figure out whether the problem is XP Pro, the XP Pro
installation, or VPC 2007 :(...

Good luck,
Jim



On 2/1/2010 11:20 AM, Damian Lake wrote:
> I have a XP Pro session that started the same thing this weekend. It won't let me change to the Last Known Good Configuration as I am VNCed into the Host computer. The host is XP Pro as well. Not sure what the issue is or why it just started.
>
>
>
> ohaya wrote:
>
> On 1/27/2010 8:16 PM, ohaya wrote:Hi,Now, it seems to stall completely at
> 01-Feb-10
>
> On 1/27/2010 8:16 PM, ohaya wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Now, it seems to stall completely at startup, on the windows where
> there is the scrolling bar. The bar scrolls for awhile, but then it
> stops completely, and no disk activity.
>
> I have tried setting processor affinity for VirtualPC.exe, but still the same.
>
> Is this a problem with VPC 2007 on a Win7 host, or is it a problem with
> the VPC guest itself?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> P.S. I have other WinXP Home guests that always startup fine. it is
> only this one WinXP Pro guest (and this is my only WinXP Pro guest, BTW)...
>
> Previous Posts In This Thread:
>
>
> Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
> Dr. Dotnetsky's Cool .NET Tips and Tricks # 14
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/b4e6c9d9-cd07-46ed-a8a2-ed2717076759/dr-dotnetskys-cool-net.aspx

From: ohaya on 5 Feb 2010 04:18
On 2/2/2010 12:20 AM, ohaya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does it eventually get all the way into Windows, ever?
>
> A couple of things I've tried are:
>
> - If your system has more than 1 CPU, start Task Manager and right click
> on "VirtualPC.exe" in processes, and select "Affinity", and check only
> one CPU.
>
> - Try to shutdown the guest, and then re-create the guest (.VMX file)
> again from scratch.
>
> Those haven't worked for me all the time, but doing those, and killing
> the guest, and starting again, I can *SOMETIMES* eventually get all the
> way into Windows.
>
> For now, I have tried to avoid shutting down Windows, and do "Save"
> instead, if I can.
>
> I wish I could figure out whether the problem is XP Pro, the XP Pro
> installation, or VPC 2007 :(...
>
> Good luck,
> Jim
>
>
>
> On 2/1/2010 11:20 AM, Damian Lake wrote:
>> I have a XP Pro session that started the same thing this weekend. It
>> won't let me change to the Last Known Good Configuration as I am VNCed
>> into the Host computer. The host is XP Pro as well. Not sure what the
>> issue is or why it just started.
>>
>>
>>
>> ohaya wrote:
>>
>> On 1/27/2010 8:16 PM, ohaya wrote:Hi,Now, it seems to stall completely at
>> 01-Feb-10
>>
>> On 1/27/2010 8:16 PM, ohaya wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now, it seems to stall completely at startup, on the windows where
>> there is the scrolling bar. The bar scrolls for awhile, but then it
>> stops completely, and no disk activity.
>>
>> I have tried setting processor affinity for VirtualPC.exe, but still
>> the same.
>>
>> Is this a problem with VPC 2007 on a Win7 host, or is it a problem with
>> the VPC guest itself?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
>>
>> P.S. I have other WinXP Home guests that always startup fine. it is
>> only this one WinXP Pro guest (and this is my only WinXP Pro guest,
>> BTW)...
>>
>> Previous Posts In This Thread:
>>
>>
>> Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
>> Dr. Dotnetsky's Cool .NET Tips and Tricks # 14
>> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/b4e6c9d9-cd07-46ed-a8a2-ed2717076759/dr-dotnetskys-cool-net.aspx
>>
>


Hi,

I don't know exactly what the problem was, but I was just able to kind
of get around my problem.

I happen to have a backup image of my very original installation of
WinXP. I restored that backup image, and that boots "normally" (no more
2 minute stalling on the scrolling bar).

I think that the problem I had was on this same WinXP, but where I had
installed all of the MS updates, including SP3. As I said, the image I
restored was an image of XP immediately after I did the XP installation,
which was XP SP2.

Anyway, as I said, I don't know if one of more of the updates might've
caused the stalling problem, but, I figured I'd post this info in case
it might help someone else who encounters this problem.

Jim
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