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Autolaunching Virtual Machine in Windows XP

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 08/04/2006
From: "cbrunet" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Is it at all possible to have a Virtual Machine launch in full screen
in Virtual PC 2004 running on a Windows XP system?

We have legacy software in the company that MUST still be used, but the
system it is running on is falling apart. I would like to be able to
upgrade this user to a new system running Windows XP and Virtua PC with
a Windows 95 Virtual Machine running the legacy software, and they find
it a pain to have to open it all the time, so I'd like it to just boot
the system directly into the virtualized Windows 95 environment.

Is this even possile?

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Re: Autolaunching Virtual Machine in Windows XP

Sent: 08/04/2006
From: "cbrunet" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

cbrunet wrote:

Why yes it is. Throw it into the Startup and set the following
parameters:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual PC>"Virtual PC.exe" -pc WindowsNT4
-launch -singlepc

Now how about running it in full screen mode?

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> Is it at all possible to have a Virtual Machine launch in full screen
> in Virtual PC 2004 running on a Windows XP system?
>
> We have legacy software in the company that MUST still be used, but the
> system it is running on is falling apart. I would like to be able to
> upgrade this user to a new system running Windows XP and Virtua PC with
> a Windows 95 Virtual Machine running the legacy software, and they find
> it a pain to have to open it all the time, so I'd like it to just boot
> the system directly into the virtualized Windows 95 environment.
>
> Is this even possile?

Re: Autolaunching Virtual Machine in Windows XP

Sent: 08/04/2006
From: "cbrunet" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Ronny Ong wrote:

In the end, I wrote a batch file that runs as such:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual PC>"Virtual PC.exe" -pc WindowsNT4
-launch -singlepc -fullscreen
SHUTDOWN -s -t 01

I also set a local account to autologin to the PC. So XP boots up,
auto logs in, and bam, Windows 95 starts booting, in full screen mode.
The user uses it for X ammount of minutes until he/she shuts it down,
and then BAM, XP shut down.

Works like a charm. Thanks guys. :D

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> "cbrunet" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > Now how about running it in full screen mode?
>
> Go into Settings of the VM, select "Display" on the left side, then check
> the checkbox "Always start this virtual machine in full-screen mode."
>
> If you only want it to be full-screen when started via Startup (keeping it
> normal when started from the VPC Console) then you can simply copy your
> WindowsNT4.vmc, set the copy for full-screen, and reference the copy in your
> Startup shortcut command line. You can have multiple vmc files pointing to
> the same vhd as long as you don't try to run more than one of those vmc
> files at a time.

Re: Autolaunching Virtual Machine in Windows XP

Sent: 08/04/2006
From: "Ronny Ong" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"cbrunet" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Go into Settings of the VM, select "Display" on the left side, then check
the checkbox "Always start this virtual machine in full-screen mode."

If you only want it to be full-screen when started via Startup (keeping it
normal when started from the VPC Console) then you can simply copy your
WindowsNT4.vmc, set the copy for full-screen, and reference the copy in your
Startup shortcut command line. You can have multiple vmc files pointing to
the same vhd as long as you don't try to run more than one of those vmc
files at a time.

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> Now how about running it in full screen mode?

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