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curtisAwilson@gmail.com - 28 Nov 2007 02:53 GMT

Virtual PC 6.1 was working fine on my Apple PowerBook G4/1.5 then I
upgraded from 10.3.9 (erase and install)
to Leopard. After re-installing VirtualPC, it will not boot from CDs
to
reinstall my Windows XP software and/or printer drivers. I only use
virtual pc for QuickBooks and a reference library (which is only
available on Windows). I am also have trouble with the shared
network
setting. I thought about upgrading to newer VirtualPC but thought I
would check in first. Any suggestions?

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Michael Vilain - 28 Nov 2007 08:51 GMT

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> Virtual PC 6.1 was working fine on my Apple PowerBook G4/1.5 then I
> upgraded from 10.3.9 (erase and install)
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> network setting. I thought about upgrading to newer VirtualPC but thought I
> would check in first. Any suggestions?

VPC for Macintosh is a dead, discontinued and unsupported product. Even
though Microsoft still sells it bundled with Microsoft Office 2004,
that's probably someone trying to get rid of their current stock of
media until Office 2008 comes out next year.

That said, you should be able to install VPC on your 10.3.9 system (I
have VPC 7.03 installed on my test partition) and install the virtual
machine that comes with your version of VPC. If your version stopped
working, you may buy a copy of 7.0 off of eBay.

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Paul Power - 29 Nov 2007 18:17 GMT

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I don't know where you're getting your information from but I can
certainly tell you that it is completely false.

1.Microsoft VPC for Mac is NOT dead. It has NOT been discontinued. It
most certainly IS supported.

2. VPC is available in ALL retail outlets and online order depots. You
may purchase it in standalone version, bundled with Windows, or
included in Office 2004 for Mac Professional.

3. M$ has made a business decision at this time NOT to upgrade VPC to
be compatible with the newer Mac cumputers running Intel Processors.

4. There are thousands of older Macs (G3, G4, G5) that will run VPC
and those are still being supported.

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Richard Cardona - 30 Nov 2007 03:52 GMT

> 1.Microsoft VPC for Mac is NOT dead. It has NOT been discontinued. It
> most certainly IS supported.

Is VirtualPC 6.0.x still supported on OS X 10.3.x? Apple still provides
some maintenance on Jaguar, but I'm not clear if VPC 6 itself is past
end-of-life support. The answer is usually 'upgrade' :)

I believe as you wrote VPC 7.0.x on OS X 10.3 or 10.4 is supported
(going off the box specs from memory).

Does anyone know where Microsoft publishes the end-of-life support
timelines for Mac products?

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Paul Power - 30 Nov 2007 04:38 GMT

On Nov 29, 11:52 pm, Richard Cardona <Search.Archi...@example.com>
wrote:

> > 1.Microsoft VPC for Mac is NOT dead. It has NOT been discontinued. It
> > most certainly IS supported.
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> Does anyone know where Microsoft publishes the end-of-life support
> timelines for Mac products?

Virtual PC 6.0 is the last Connectix product and is not supported by M
$.

Virtual PC 6.1 and 6.1.1 is supported in Mac OS 9.2.2, 10.1.5 or
10.2.1 or later (up to and including 10.4.11) It is not supported in
Leopard athough it will run.

Virtual PC 6 will run on a G3 or G4 but not on a G5

Virtual PC 7 will run on a G3 or G4 running 10.2.8 or later up to
10.4.11 and will run in Leopard but is not supported

Virtual PC 7 will run on a G5 running 10.3 or later and will run in
Leopard but is not supported

Product Life cycles for all these products can be found at the
following site:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect

For VPC, click on More - Windows under the Windows category.

I hope that clears things up a little bit. If not, let me know here in
the newsgroup. Please do not send private emails as I do not answer
that email address.

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nospam - 01 Dec 2007 01:23 GMT

<http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=virtual%20
pc%20for%20mac>

support through 2010 for version 7 and even a little left for version 6.

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Richard Cardona - 01 Dec 2007 02:57 GMT

Thank you Paul and nospam. This is very useful information for the
newsgroup.

I have VPC 7 on a mini but I never seek PSS assistance. I'm glad to
there's support available in case I never wanted to ding my credit card. ;)

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Richard Cardona - 28 Nov 2007 13:39 GMT

> Virtual PC 6.1 was working fine on my Apple PowerBook G4/1.5 then I
> upgraded from 10.3.9 (erase and install)
> to Leopard.

VirtualPC 6.x works on OS X 10.3.9. VPC 6 will technically run on Tiger
10.4.x with Shared networking mode. I ran like this for a while before
upgrading to 7.x

VirtualPC 7.0.2 works and is supported on OS X 10.4.x. It does not run
very well under Leopard. I don't think Microsoft is planning any
compatibility patches for VPC 7 on Leopard.

With most users (over 50% now) abandoning PowerPC for Intel Macs, you're
better off staying with VPC6 or 7 + OS X 10.4 for VPC or buying an Intel
Mac and getting a whole new virtualization program. VPC does NOT run
Intel Macs and neither does the bundled version of Windows (legally).

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Fred Horvat - 29 Nov 2007 11:27 GMT

If you dig back into messages in this newsgroup to right after Leopard was
released people including myself had found out that CD support in VPC 7.XX
including 7.03 physical CD support does not work anymore in Leopard. From
memory everything else appears to work. To get VPC 6.1 or 7.XX to read a CD
you need to make an ISO of the CD and mount the ISO and you'll be fine then
in VPC to install XP. A pain YES but works fine.

I have a G5 PowerMac and a few G4s so I won't be going to an Intel Mac for a
while yet myself. If you don't like VPC anymore there are other products
like iEmulator, Wintel, and GuestPC that will work on your G4. Of all the
PPC based emulators VPC is still the fastest and most polished. I also own
iEmulator and it works under Leopard and only costs $20 but I prefer to use
VPC. I only use iEmulator for Operating Systems that VPC can't seem to run
properly.

On 11/27/07 9:53 PM, in article
4a36c985-cea4-4e85-87c2-0a6728b47d00@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com,

> Virtual PC 6.1 was working fine on my Apple PowerBook G4/1.5 then I
> upgraded from 10.3.9 (erase and install)
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> setting. I thought about upgrading to newer VirtualPC but thought I
> would check in first. Any suggestions?

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Fred Horvat - 01 Dec 2007 13:48 GMT

I forgot to mention the free Open Source emulators of BOCHS and QEMU. They
are worth a look.

On 11/29/07 6:27 AM, in article C3740C43.2581%fmh@copper.net, "Fred Horvat"
<fmh@copper.net> wrote:

> If you dig back into messages in this newsgroup to right after Leopard was
> released people including myself had found out that CD support in VPC 7.XX
[quoted text clipped - 24 lines]
>> setting. I thought about upgrading to newer VirtualPC but thought I
>> would check in first. Any suggestions?

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