I use Virtual PC a lot, especially for development.  I try to emulate a mini-infrastructure of how I’ll be deploying my solutions, so no SQL Server on my box, no IIS on my box, etc.  To support this I use Virtual PC Guy’s steps for enabling communication between my host and the VPC’s.  If you are on an Active Directory environment this can have a pretty negative impact on name resolution, specifically when browsing through “My Network Places” (XP) or just “Network” (Vista).  If you are running into this and it bugs you, go into your Microsoft Loopback Adapter properties and disable/uncheck “Client for Microsoft Networks”.  I personally disable everything except Virtual Machine Network Services and IPv4 since this just a small private network running on my computer.

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