November « 2008 « Lloyd Humphreys

So you want to install Windows 7 in a Virtual PC huh? Well, here goes! First you’ll need to get it.. I’m going to assume you already do, since you’re here, but if you don’t, don’t you think it’d be a good idea to fetch it from Microsoft’s website? What makes my tutorial different from the professional ones? I’ll tell you, good sir, it’s because this one has a penis joke in it.

Create a Virtual Machine, it’s all pretty simple, but leave yourself a good 25GB of space in it. And whatever you do, don’t put the VHD’s/etc on the same HDD as your *actual* operating system, because everything will be slow as sh*t as the drive tries to run two operating environments at once.

First you’ll need to tie an image to your VPC, so once you’ve “acquired” the ISO file of Windows 7, head to CD > Capture ISO and open it. Then leave the rest to VPC07 as it boots up just as a normal PC installing 7.

Once Windows has loaded all the files, this happens and it will stay like this for a while. Then you’ll get a screen with “install” written on it – I jumped the gun a little and forgot to screenshot it.

Accept all the dumb licensing crap – who reads it anyways, eh?

Select where you want to put it – there’s only one VHD in the VM, so there’s only really one place you could put it…get this wrong and you deserve to be castrated

Wait 8-10 weeks for Windows to Install in a VM! But not to discourage anyone, this is definitely not how long it would take when installing it straight. The VM will also reboot many times during installation – so sit back, surf the web or whatever and check back periodically to check if it’s finished – and if not, you can laugh obnoxiously at the word “floppy”.