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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / July 2008Virtual PC is crashing from the start
Hello I have an MacBook with Mac OSX 10.5.3 and Virtual PC 7.0.1 (the installation went fine). When I try to launch Virtual PC,the application crashes immdiately, and generating an crash report, wich you can see below. I already tryed to install Virtual PC 7.0.3 update, but the installation of that update failed. It gave the error that Virtual PC can't install on my MacBook. How do I resolve this issue as soon as possible? Regards, --- Guido van Brakel MCP - Systems Administrator Studying Systems Administration at the Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences --- > Hello > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Applied Sciences > --- You didn't say what MacBook you have, but I'm guessing that it's Intel based (MacBook Pro). Uninstall VPC and throw it away (or sell it on Craig's List). It won't run on your machine. It only runs on PPC machines (e.g. a G4 or G5). Buy a full commercial version of XP and either Fusion or Parallels. Those can run XP in a virtual environment on Intel machines.  SignatureDeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... [I filter all Goggle Groups posts, so any reply may be automatically by ignored] Michael Vilain schreef: >> Hello >> [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Buy a full commercial version of XP and either Fusion or Parallels. > Those can run XP in a virtual environment on Intel machines. Hi Micheal, Thanks for you reply. I have an Intel based Mac. Do you know if Microsoft has plans to develop an version of Virtual PC 7 for Intel Mac's? I personally don't like the idea of Bootcamp, running a Microsoft product on a Apple Architecture, I don't think that config/design will ever run very stable. It's like buying an Audi car with an Seat engine :D. Regards, --- Guido van Brakel MCP - Systems Administrator Studying Systems Administration at the Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences --- Bootcamp is more stable than Parallels or Fusion although you can not run windows side by side with mac os X craig On 30/07/08 3:14 PM, in article u1mgBlo8IHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl, > Michael Vilain schreef: >> [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > Applied Sciences > --- > Michael Vilain schreef: > > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > don't think that config/design will ever run very stable. It's like > buying an Audi car with an Seat engine :D. I'm not privy to anything Microsoft might be planning to do for Apple's hardware. But if you think about it, VPC works by running on top of an existing OS. On the PC, that OS is XP, so you'd have to use Bootcamp and a commercial release of XP to run VPC. Same for the other PC-based virtualization software, AFAIK. VPC for Mac on PPC is a software emulator of the Intel hardware. There's no need to do that no Intel machines. Microsoft announced they were ending all development on the Macintosh version of VPC, so my guess is "It's dead, Jim". There's an application called Crossover that will allow _a very narrow group of XP applications_ to run on MacOS X without XP. Check it out on Versiontracker.com. If you really need XP and MacOS X integration, buy a commercial copy of XP ASAP while you still can. They're probably getting really expensive on eBay. Look at Fusion or Parallels for running both systems on MacOS X. If you need to take over the entire machine, use BootCamp. Those are your only options currently. SignatureDeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... [I filter all Goggle Groups posts, so any reply may be automatically by ignored] >Hi Micheal, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >don't think that config/design will ever run very stable. It's like >buying an Audi car with an Seat engine :D. Microsoft has no plans on updating Virtual PC for Intel Macs. Apple architecture? It is standard Intel based x86 architecture now, OEM'd by PC manufacturers. No real hardware difference from any other x86 based system. SignatureCheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ I do not work for Microsoft. |
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