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5. Select the Tools drop-down menu, and select Enable Integration Features. You’ll be
prompted to provide credentials that will be used on your system. Enter the user
name and password you used when creating the VPC image, and click OK.
Windows Virtual PC Menu
The Windows Virtual PC interface is different from the Microsoft Virtual PC interface.
As a matter of fact, it doesn’t look like an interface at all. Instead, it looks like Windows
Explorer with a couple extra menu items.
Figure 1.6 shows the Windows Virtual Machines console. It shows the virtual machines
I have added to my system: one for Windows XP Mode, one Windows 7 client named
Client1, and one Server 2008 system I’m using as a domain controller in the virtual
environment.
FIGURE 1.6 Windows Virtual Machines console
You can launch any virtual machine console from here by double-clicking it. You can also
access the settings for any of the virtual machines by selecting the virtual machine and click-
ing Settings. Some settings can be manipulated while the system is running or hibernated.
Other settings require you to shut down the virtual machine before you can modify them.
Once the virtual machine is launched, you’ll see that it has a menu across the top,
as shown in Figure 1.7. Figure 1.7 is a virtual instance of Windows 7 running within
Windows Virtual PC. As you can see, there are four menu choices. Each one is explained in
the following section.
EXERCISE 1.8 (continued)
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