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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2008virtual machine gone from PC list
Hello, I could really use some help. After a crash on my iBook G4, 10.4.11, which occurred while my virtual PC machine was Paused, I can not access this machine at all. At first it came up with a black, DOS- like screen asking to find a boot drive or boot from a floppy, while VPC 7.0.2 led me to the settings page for that machine wherein there was nothing selected for Drive 1, and it would not allow me to select my virtual PC disk image by name - it is greyyed out. Now when I ask VPC to 'Open' the virtual PC via the File menu, nothing happens at all. Nothing will appear in the Virtual PC list either. Also, I tried to make a current copy of the virtual machine, but this bombs out during the copy process in the Finder with either an 'unexpected error (-1309)', or more ominously a "The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "UndoDrive1.vud" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)." Any ideas on how to access my original machine would be appreciated. I've spent some time browsing the archives here, which included a suggestion to set up a new virtual machine and try importing from the old one. However I am having trouble with this too - I first purchased Virtual PC 6 with Windows XP/H included, later I purchased VPC 7 as an 'upgrade' version. I can't get VPC 7 to create a new machine using the Windows content on the VPC6 disks. Am I missing some discs for Windows XP/Home? I seem to recall (four? years ago) that there were no separate discs from Microsoft??? I have the Microsoft certificate which includes the writing 'Connectix Corporation' on it, and the VPC6 install discs (2 of them) say on them "Includes WXP Home". Am i going to have to set up a blank VPC6 machine, 'upgrade' or 'import' (?) it to VPC7, and then have an option to import an existing VPC7 machine? > Am i going to have to set up a blank VPC6 machine, 'upgrade' or > 'import' (?) it to VPC7, and then have an option to import an existing > VPC7 machine? well this has been a long and boring day that isn't close to over yet. I did make a VPC6 machine, converted it to a VP7 file, updated Windows on it, installed VM additions, installed QuickBooks, and finally was able to rescue the QB data from the original virtual machine with the Transfer command. I also looked at the package contents of the original machine, which included a 'undodrive1.vud' in addition to a 'basedrive.vud', but no where could I find a 'savedstate' file which is mentioned in many of Paul Power's very helpful posts here. The undodrive1.vud file is the one in particular that hangs up the copy process. I did a repair permissions on the drive as a whole, but still can't get the original virtual machine file to appear in the PC List. But since I got my main QuickBooks file back without even resorting to losing a little bit of work by using the back-up file, I'm not so worried about recovering the whole original machine. Only have to make it through another few months before moving on to an Intel Mac. I have been error free for many years on my virtual pc 7. As of Jan 17, I no longer can access virtual pc. What has happened? > I have been error free for many years on my virtual pc 7. As of Jan 17, I no > longer can access virtual pc. What has happened? The first thing I'd do is run Disk Utility to Check the hard disk, then if that is OK to repair permissions. Also the PLIST file may be corrupt. Like Mac G stated I¹d run the Check Disk and repair Permissions first and then see what happens. On 1/18/08 2:45 AM, in article ee88f6c.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Jeron" > I have been error free for many years on my virtual pc 7. As of Jan 17, I no > longer can access virtual pc. What has happened? > Also the PLIST file may be corrupt. Like Mac G stated I¹d run the Check > Disk and repair Permissions first and then see what happens. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > - Show quoted text - OK. First of all, how is a plist file going to help open Windows? Windows does not recognize plist files. He can't run Check Disk because he can't get past the boot strap files. Check Disk runs from 'within'. And repairing Disk Permissions is a Mac utility. Has nothing to do with Windows. The reason there is no 'savedstate' file is because the virtual machine is not recognized. Windows is contained in a package file under the name 'basedrive.vhd' To get the original virtual machine to run, look for that basedrive.vhd file. Move it to the desktop. Create an empty virtual machine. Quit VPC. Move the basedrive.vhd file to the Windows package and launch VPC. Works 80% of the time as long as there is no corruption in the Windows file itself. Well you are correct IF you are talking about once being in Windows. Since the post was vague I offered suggestions to get VPC to launch into Windows. So the suggestions I offered were strictly from the OSX side to get VPC to launch. A corrupt PLIST file will keep VPC or any application from running. This is a common issue with MS Office. Word may not run but all the other apps in Office do. By deleted or moving the PLIST file and re-launching Word will normally 99% of the time get Word to run just fine afterwards. Needless to say File Permissions can also keep many apps from running properly. Obviously once in Windows these things do not apply. On 1/22/08 1:47 PM, in article 7af33f97-a93f-497c-b5ad-20c83f522d9d@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com, "Paul Power" <paulkpower@gmail.com> wrote: >> Also the PLIST file may be corrupt. Like Mac G stated I¹d run the Check >> Disk and repair Permissions first and then see what happens. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > and launch VPC. Works 80% of the time as long as there is no > corruption in the Windows file itself. > Well you are correct IF you are talking about once being in Windows. Since > the post was vague I offered suggestions to get VPC to launch into Windows. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Look at the original post, Fred. "Hello, I could really use some help. After a crash on my iBook G4, 10.4.11, which occurred while my virtual PC machine was Paused, I can not access this machine at all. At first it came up with a black, DOS- like screen asking to find a boot drive or boot from a floppy" This can ONLY happen if the VPC application is up and running. He is trying to access his virtual machine (Windows). That is the reason for my post. The other suggestions are for getting the VPC application to launch. It already did at that point. Gotcha Thanks On 1/29/08 1:33 PM, in article 0772b16e-67e3-45d7-af52-2b74400794e3@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com, "Paul Power" <paulkpower@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well you are correct IF you are talking about once being in Windows. Since >> the post was vague I offered suggestions to get VPC to launch into Windows. [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > my post. The other suggestions are for getting the VPC application to > launch. It already did at that point. I too ran VPC error free for several years. I think my first crash was a result of the internal hard disk in my iBook approaching 100% capacity. Simultaneously, my virtual Windows machine was slowly filling up. I'm not sure it was actually 'emptying' the Recycle Bin completely; I'm no Windows expert at all. I was estimating it was using up a total of maybe 7 gigs so I didn't think about it too much as the VPC machine file had 15 gigs allocated to it. My new crash I think may have been caused by trying to update QuickBooks 2006 without ever updating Windows XP/Home from what I bought back in about 2003. I did not realize that first you have to update the Windows Update software and then you can update Windows. Just a hunch though. Anyway I did not realize you could change the title of the threads here, I thought my original thread had somehow gone to the great bit- bucket in the sky. Nothing suprises me working with Windows though I know that had nothing to do with it, but I couldn't figure out what happened to my original post here for several weeks. |
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