Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / May 2004

I have searched hi and low and not been able to find a workable
solution to the following problem:
We have a mac with OS9.2 and VPC6.1 on it. VPC has had Windows 2000
Professional installed on it.

HI, I recently bought a beatiful powerbook g4 1.25 with 512 ram and 80 hd. I
bought Office Professional which came with Virtual PC 6.1. I rushed and
installed it to see how was the performance loading windows the main windows
xp applications. I must say that I allocated 352mb of ...

How slow? I have never known anything like it. I gave my Virtual PC
the maximum ram availible before the warning came on and this was well
over 256mb. Even so try playing a video. It's awful. Surely this
simple operation that was possible on my old PC that only had 64mb of

I'm a new user of VPC (6.1.1, w/ WinXPPro). I want to be able to mount
a PC drive on my mac desktop (OSX 10.3.3). But when I try to set this
up in the VPC prefs > Drive 1, everything in that panel is greyed out.
I also tried creating a second drive file (which I was able to do

This is documented in another thread "Upgrades to Windows 2000," but I
thought I'd post it for everyone.
Several people, including myself, have run into a problem when one of
the latest Windows Critial Updates were applied. The problem being when

I have recently needed to reinstall VPC for Mac. It has Windows 2000
SP3 pre-installed. As there has been a lot of (adverse) press
regarding the vulnerability of Win systems to attacks from outside
(viz Sasser impact in Australia at present), I proceeded to download

Installed VPC yesterday and updated to 6.1.1
I used the basic VPC install disk without an operating system and
installed XP Pro from existing CD.
My problem is that I cannot get some features of VPC to work, such as

How do I find out how Virtual PC for Mac works?   That is how it works
at the PowerPC microprocessor level.
Are there hardware features of the PowerPC CPU that are specially used
to perform the emulation?

Has anyone heard any news on when Microsoft might release VPC 7?  My school
is waiting for its release to decide what computers to put in the new
building (whether they will be all Macs or mostly Macs with some PCs).  I
personally want a building filled with G5s and a couple iMacs, ...

I'm new to VPC, and trying to figure out how I can backup my essential
data files, and save myself from a day's hard labour the next time
Windohze fries itself (already happened once in my first fortnight of
VPC).

Hi! I am new to this group. I have an iMac (G4). I am trying to get
Virtual PC for Mac installed on my iMac... with no luck. I have copied
it to my Applications folder. I have enter my mac password. I entered
the serial number and clicked Done. Everything as instructed by the

I'm having a problem with VPC 6 using XP Home on a Mac OS X system. I
have successful net access in OSX both when directly connected via
ethernet or going wireless. Unfortunately, within Virtual PC, I can
only achieve net access when the Mac is directly connected.

I am running VPC 6.1.1 and need to connect to a Citrix server via VPN. Using
VPC, Airport and a shared VPC connection, Nortel VPN Contivity client cannot
connect. I have access to the web with this configuration, but VPN does not
work. Searching MS VPC site, it suggests using ...

I have a new 1.25GHz powerbook G4 with 512MB RAM.  I have tried to
install Windows Virtual PC 6.1.1 with a Windows XP Operating System
several times with no luck.  I allocated 312MB of memory, as the
instructions say to do, and the application takes a long time to come

I'm running VPC 6.1.1 on Panther 10.3.3 on a 17" 1Gh Powerbook. I want
to start my copy of XP Home when I boot up. If I put VPC in the
Startup Items window, all that opens is the VPC Window List. Any ideas
how I can get XP Home going when I boot up?