Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / June 2004

A couple of months ago I asked about emulating the Control Break/Pause
key sequence in VPC.
I did not notice a positive outcome (and the request has "expired" -
ceased to be, gone to meet its maker...).

I'm running VPC 6.1 on an iBook G4, OS X Panther and it's
not even worth running it's so slow.  It's like buying a
car that only does 10mph, you'd want your money back.  I
read on macwindows.com that Norton virus might be a

    I am using an older operating system. I started with MAC OS 8.1 and
upgraded to MAC OS 8.6. I was very disappointed to find my Virtual PC
2.1 does not install now. Is there something I can do, install a patch
or something, besides buying a new version of Virtual PC. I am ...

To install my XP operating system, I have to accept the EULA - problem
is to accept is the F8 key. I can press the F8 key all day long and
nothing happens. Pressing page down does nothing either. Pressing ESC
does abort the install. In order for me to accept the EULA, do I have

I'm at the point in the XP installation where I'm supposed to accept the EULA
- I'm trying as hard as I can to accept (F8 key) and or Page Down but the
only thing that seems to have any effect is the ESC key which kills the install.
i just purchased this G4 17inch Powerbook and ...

I've just bought VPC 6.1.1 with Windows XP/Home, running on my new
eMac 1.25 ghz/1GB Ram. All is set up well (I had been running on an
iMac, Win 98SE, which was lost in a burglary), except Internet
Explorer behaves oddly. It will access some URLs, but not others. I've

Lately, when I restart VPC6 with Win 2000 (up to date with latest
patches), it gets through the boot progress screen, shows a quick error
message (too fast to read completely, but something about some DLL not
found) then reboots. It keeps doing this till I turn off the virtual

I don't know what happens, but VPC has never correctly accessed internet.
The prefs are set to :
in the mac, "share network" (not virtual switch)
and inside the PC, it is : "use DHCP"...

I am currently running VPC6.1 on my G4.  I was wondering if the
following might be possible?
I had an old IBM Aptiva ('95 model) with Windows 95 installed on it.
The computer case is with my parents now, but I've retained the old

I have a G4 Power Book with Virtual PC 5. I've had it for a few years
and use it ever so often. But now I have a USB CDMA Wireless modem
that only works with Windows. I can connect to the internet  using VPC
with no problem.

For some reason Virtual PC just reset itself. When I open it, it asks
me to put in my CD key again. And of course, the only way to get
support from Microsoft is if I have my PID number. Help!?

I have a PowerBook G4 with 1 gig of RAM, i have allocated 512mb of RAM
to virtual PC and 16mb for video RAM, however, when i go into the
display settings, it says i only have 4mb of video ram and a standard
S3 trio video card.

Hey everybody,
Is anyone else having problems with the performance of Virtual PC 6
running on
OS X?

Under OS 10.3.3 in Virtual PC 6.1.1, I get error on startup that reads,
"ScanDisk detected an invalid long filename entry on this drive but was
unable to fix it..." ScanDisk runs every time I startup because I can never
shut down properly. I always get another error,"This program ...