Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:29 PM
Mikael Sand
Vista + Virtual PC Gotcha
Well I am certainly no fan of Vista as is, and today's little problem does not help.
I got this strange error when I tried to start a virtual machine: "…can't be started because it is being used by another program, or marked as read-only".
As you would expect I was not running another instance of Virtual PC, nor was the file marked as read-only. The problem was that Virtual PC has to be run as administrator. I knew this; however the error message did not exactly point me in the right direction so to speak.
Filed under: Vista