Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / June 2004

Hopefully, someone from Microsoft and the VPC team will see this.
I'm a wireless user, and I get on potentially several different wireless
 networks each day.
I get/send e-mail to an exchange server from Windows 2000 on VPC and

I have a PowerMac G4 (OS 10.2.8) with the factory AGP (which does not
support dual display) video card and an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition
PCI video card.  Each video card is connected to one monitor.  The
Mac's dual display feature will allow me to run the Virtual PC (W2K

Does anyone have experience installing just plain ol' DOS? I don't
need or want Windows. I need just DOS because I have an old fogey
programmer friend who build this great database for me in DOS (of all
things) and my old PC is about to die and I don't want to replace it.

I'm trying to connect to my work using Cisco VPN Client. Works fine on
my old PC, however when I try to connect using it via VPC on my MAC, I
receive "remote peer is no longer responding" error message.  My
internet connection on VPC works fine.

I am new, so please forgive me if this is old news.
Does anyone know when Virtual PC 7 is supposed to come out?  I have a brand
new Mac G5 just begging to be used for some of my research programs that
only run PC.

Does VP 5.0 work on and iBook G4 with Mac OS X.3.4?
I tried, but after 20 minutes of black screen I stopped !!
Thanks for your help.

I've been running VPC 6.1 for months.  Soon after upgrading to latest
version of Panther (10.3.3) and after running VCP Win2000 I ran out of
HD space while running the VM.  After saving changes (failed) I got
the message:  "This PC was not properly shut down during the last

I just installed VPC 6.1 on my G4, OSX 10.3.4 with a 21
in. Sony Multiscan monitor. No matter what setting I use
in full screen mode, I can only get a VPC window
equivalent to a 15 in. monitor. How can I get the window

I want to put Win98 or Win2k in VPC instead of XP, but my Win98 and Win2k  
CDs apparently aren't bootable.
My guess is that I need a boot floppy, but how do I get the floppy image  
(I'm on Mac 10.3.4)?

I no longer use my copy of VPC for Mac. Is there any way to extract my
Win 2000 license from the product so that I can install it on a PC?

VPC doesn't support dual processor machines and apparently never will!
It's not hard to implement dual processor compatibility.

I have a Power Mac G3, which is a secondary system in my computer
usage that originally was equipped with Virtual PC 2.1.  But once I
installed  Operating System 9.0, I no longer can retrieve it (even
though it lists the program when you do a search ).

I installed VPC 6.1 on a G4 running OS X 10.3. I created the virtual
hard drive, then when I start VPC it prompts me to install an OS. I
put in a Windows XP disk but I don't know how to make the Windows CD
boot to the virtual machine. It looks like the CD is mounted but

Ever since I upgraded to OS X 10.3.4, palm hotsync no longer works in
virtual PC. I plug in the palm pilot and tap the sync icon, the
virtual pc recognises the palm pilot, but nothing happens. Before I
upgraded to 10.3.3, the palm pilot would synchronise. What has

I've recently purchased the standalone VPC version 6.1, and attempting
to install windows 2000 professional as my OS. I have an iBook 900mhz
with 600mb ram.
Basically, VPC seems to load fine, but when I set up a Virtual PC and