Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / July 2004

I just added more RAM (now I have 2 GB total) to my PowerBook G4 1.5
GHz in hopes of (like everyone else) not having to deal with minutes
when opening simple applications.  Yet when I check the "Total RAM in
PC" setting, I only allowed a maximum of 512 mg.  Is that as high as I

Does anybody know when M$ will finally (if ever) get around to fixing
the floating-point rounding errors in VPC?
I have a company expense report app that is written in Java, and it is
unusable under VPC because of the rounding errors.

When using Shared Networking what is the Port # used When my Guest OS
(WIN2000)  uses IE 6.0 SP1 to access the Net (after the Mac has
connected to the Net)? Is it still Port 80 as it is when I use IE
5.2.3 on the Mac side? (My intuition tells me that VPC is *really*

Is it normal for VPC 6.1.1 to report my 1GHz PPC as a Pentium II with MMX
operating at 294 MHz? I am getting very sluggish response while operating in
the PC environment even after following the the optimization tips by Black
Viper and the rest of the Google groups posts. Here are ...

I am a Connectix VPC user but I don't feel it easy to use
What's the feature of Microsoft VPC?
Are they the same?
Here in my home town I use DSL to go online but the client software only

Any word on when Virtual PC for the G5 will be released?

Hi, I use a PC to develop asp.net applications for our website, but
use a MAC for everything else. I wondered if the Virtual PC
application would allow me develop and test asp.net applications on my
MAC. I also want to be able to demo them on a MAC laptop so I would

I am porting over to a Mac system and want to be able to run my WinXP
Home setup on the Mac. I have used VPC (some years ago), and still
remember a lot from that time.
My question is this: Can I install VPC, then WinXp with Symantec

Any idea if the Charles Schwab PC-based trading software (Streetsmart Pro)
will connect to the internet properly when used in VPC?  I'm not sure
the protocol it uses to connect to the internet to transfer account
information, but it does require an internet connection to be ...

I currently use VPC 6.1.1 on my Mac PowerBook 17".  I'm looking for a set of
instructions that will allow me to connect to my running virtual XP VPC
session from the Finder.  I think I need to use the "Virtual Switch" setting
in VPC, but I'm not sure what, if any, other ...

AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT 2004 or 2005 series.
I just want to know in general if the products are compatible with each
other for viewing and printing?
What special settings or other MAC upgrades were required to make the

In what seems like a remarkably dumb move to anyone outside of marketing,  
apparently Microsoft has decided to wait to release VirtualPC7 until  
Windows XP SP2, which is due to be released in March, oops, June, oops,  
August of this year.

HI all ,
I am need of some assistance please. I am running virtual pc for mac
and I am running windows xp pro on the virtual pc yet in the virtual
emulation of windows xp pro  I am having trouble getting the network

Hi all ,
I need some advice please. I am running virtual pc 6.1 that has
windows xp pro on it and I am sick of the speed of the Ethernet
network connection being only 10mb therefore I would like to be able

I was running VPC6 on my G4 Pwrbk for about a month with no problem. All
of a sudden when I went to start VPC, it would load, bit XP Pro would
not. I just keep looping through the black screen asking me to select
"Last Known Good", Safe Mode and others options. None of these ...