Kimberly Tripp mentioned this little funny in her SQL Server 2005 pre-conference session at TechEd this year (blogged about here).
Kimberly mentioned a funny error message that would appear if you try to run a mobile application via Visual Studio that’s installed in a Virtual PC image. Given that the mobile device emulators are themselves essentially virtual PCs, this shouldn’t be too surprising…but the error message is, well, humourous to say the least.
Chris Hart saved me the effort of installation, etc. and provided this image:
Running Virtual PC inside Virtual PC isn’t as fun; see http://idunno.org/displayBlog.aspx/2005031601
When Connectix owned it it used to have the same error message as you’ve shown. Darn that corporate borging.
Apparently, it’s working now:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/01/04/running-virtual-pc-under-hyper-v-beta.aspx
Though I still haven’t managed to get Virtual PC running inside a virtual Windows 7…