Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / May 2005

Hello,

I recently bought and installed Mac OS X 10.4 and Virtual PC 7 with
Windows XP Professional (SP2). Everytime I boot up the Virtual PC
application or Windows XP I get an error like "Virtual Switch
networking cannot be enabled" After many failed attempts to counter
that problem, I tried Shared Networking. Windows XP's internet -hardly-
works. Okay, well, it works, but on IE, for example, when I want to
load, say, the Microsoft Mactopia website, the page doesn't load (the
loading bar only increments one space every 2-3 minutes)

So I looked at VPC's manual, and it advises I shouldn't run Shared
Networking without AirPort. My PowerBook G4 -does- have AirPort, but
the outlet is around $299.99 I believe, and it's not worth buying
simply because Shared Networking is fussy.

When I bought VPC, CompUSA gave me a 14-day evaluation period -- after
that 14 days, I'm stuck with VPC. I was frantically trying to search
for answers, but it turns out e-mail support from Microsoft is $35 an
e-mail, and that's basically being greedy on their behalf. I checked
the newsgroup (this) next and found out there's a fix in the works, but
unfortunately as of now it's another 1-2 months away and I only have 8
days left in the evaluation period.

Can anyone give me suggestions? Thanks.