This is THE golden sentence Everytime someone says this it's exactly the other way around I am not sure I fully understand, but is the problem non functional network in the virtual PC installation? I ma half sure you integrated drivers for your real PC, but checked to uninstall the default drivers for network stuff that come shipped in windows. I know I did this few times in past and was angry because I couldn't connect anywhere. edit: I hope I understand it correctly that you are testing the disc in VirtualPC...