24 septembre
Virtual PC issues..
This week I have been experiencing some issues with Virtual PC - basically crashing at random points.
I have been (and am still) a big fan of Virtual PC but this was really bugging me. The error that I was gettign would crash Virtual PC and report the following in Event Viewer:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: virtual pc.exe, 5.3.582.27, virtual pc.exe, 5.3.582.27, 0018c85a.
So - basically not a lot of assistance - I was speaking with Andrew Dudgell about it and he came up with a few suggestions.. all to do with the fact that I was running Virtual PC on a laptop. I did have hibernation turned on and that can cause troubles. Applied fixes and still no success.
Then further digging found a utility that was mentioned on the VirtualPC Guy's site. Basically what it does is turn off all the funky processor saving type functioning that processors seem to have nowadays. So - after having Virtual PC crash every couple of minutes - now it is working fine. So check it out if you are having the issues that I had. (oh.. and set it to Maximum Performance to ensure that there is no stepping taking effect that might cause you problems)
http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/index.html