Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / April 2004

I just switched over to a Mac, and thought I had researched all my questions
first, but apparently not...
I just discovered that I cannot use Entourage with our Exchange Server 5.5.
So I am looking for a solution.  My questions are:

Not sure why but my VPC 6.1.1 looses the saved pc's in the PC list.
I'm running in 10.3.3. The problem date back to before Panther mind
you. I can't re-install as my VPC 5 CD is damaged.
The saved and running PCs are there when I have my PC's running or

I have an eMac G4, with VPC installed.  Do I need an antivirus program
for VPC, or will the AV program for the Mac be sufficient?  If I need
one, which one would be best?

I purchased Windows XP Home Edition bundled with Virtual PC 5 from
Connectix. I have the serial number for VPC and the product key for
WXP. After a reformat of my harddrive, I reinstalled VPC but WXP did
not install automatically. What do I need to do to reinstall XP  from

According to
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx?pid=virtua
lpc&page=right
("Which edition is right for you?"), Virtual PC for Mac ­ Standalone is

I tried searching through the posts but still did not get anywhere.
let me start by telling my mac:
iMAC G4 800 MHz, bus speed 100Mhz , RAM 512 (all from system profler)
VPC 6.1  (I am in the process of downloading the update 6.1.1, but I

Have Virtual PC 6.1 running on OS X 10.2.  I am using it for real
estate sites.  It crashes VERY frequently.  A lot of the time, I can't
get out of the crash and must shut my notebook down and restart.  A
good portion of that time, I then cannot reopen Virtual PC and must

I use Virtual PC 6.1.1 on an iMac running Mac OSX 10.2.8. I try to
connect my USB ADSL Modem a Sagem fast 800, but the modem isn't
recognise by Virtual PC running Windows 98.
If any body have found a solution, he will be welcome.

It appears that moving a file to a shared folder only works if it has an
8.3 filename.  If I try to move a file with a long name onto the shared
folder, I won't be able to access it on VPC.  If I rename it to 8.3, I
can.

I recently had to reinstall my system software (G4 Mac/OS X Jaguar) and
though I backed up all my data, it seems I forgot to keep the update for
VPC 5 to 5.04. Is it still available anywhere? I haven't been able to
locate a download anywhere online. Unfortunately I can't upgrade ...

I would like to play Counter-Strike on my VPC-XP Installation.
But therefore, I need the OpenGL or the Direct3D GraphicMode.
I´ve got an ATI Radeon 9000Pro but it seems like VPC doesn´t use it.
The game simply doesn´t run.

I'm running Mac OSX 10.3.3 on an 800MZ G4 iMac with 256mb RAM. I want
to work at home on InDesign 2 documents from work, where we use
Windows 2000 on PCs. I'm considering buying VIrtual PC 6.1 for the Mac
in order to run the PC version of InDesign at home so I can open, work

I have installed VPC 6.1  and upgraded to VPC 6.1.1 on my ibook g4. I
got to the black screen of the Windows XP home with the message that I
need to install the OS. I put in windows CD in and I don't know what
to do next. The instructions with Virtual PC is very very incomplete.

I have setup Virtual PC 6.1 on a Mac OSX 10.3 client workstation.  I have
setup one machine with Win98.  I setup the machine to use Virtual Switch for
the Network setting.  When I launch the computer it gives me the following
error message:

My problems is. I had virtual PC 5 installed on my G4 OSX machine but
I never used it. So I did the cardinal sin of just deleted the
application. Now I am trying to install Virtual PC 6 onto my machine
and it keeps coming up with an error as follows: