Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / August 2004

I have VPC6 Windows XP Home.
I am having trouble trying to set up an internet connection on VPC, its a
dialup 56k connection.
Could anyone help set up a connection on VPC?.

I'm frequently getting system freezes when I quit VPC 5 (Apple Q), and
have to reboot the machine. I'm on a G4 dual 1Mhz system, running
OSX10.2.8. The freezes don't always happen and only seem to happen
after a Win XP session, but I can't identify any pattern - eg: which

I have a copy of W98 (from MSDN subscription) but it isn't bootable and
I'm wondering how I can install it? I have a bootable copy of W2000 that
came with my PC, and that installs fine on VPC. From there I've copied
over the W98 files and I attempt to run setup from within W2000 ...

The power went out while I was working in Virtual PC.
After restarting my Mac, I got an error message when I tried to reboot Virtual PC:
file missing or corrupt
<Windows Root>system32\hal.dll.

I am trying to install MS-DOS 7.10 on a new drive in VPC 6. I booted from the
DOS setup image, and it was installing fine until a little window came up
saying:
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Ever since my recent "delayed" upgrade to OS 10.3.5 I can no longer connect
to the Internet with VPC.
I get the following error message on start up: "Permissions for the support
files were set correctly, but Virtual Switch failed to load.Please report

I take it that if Virtual Switch does not work this is what prevents me from
connecting to the internet?
Anyone else having problems with Virtual switch on OS 10.3.5?
Marshall

I have VPC 6 with windows 2000 running on a Dual 1GHz G4 - OSX 10.3.4
and 1.5 GB of ram.
When I start up VPC, the vpc mouse just sits in the middle of the
windows desktop and the Macintosh mouse still moves around. I am

Just installed the VPC on my mac and found that installing the Win2000
is not favourable for us. How do I completely remove Win 2000 from VPC
?
Thanks

I have a number of applications such as Works, Quicken98, Acrobat, an Adobe
web builder (?) and various others that I occasionally use that I'm running
on an older PC under Windows 98.   Rather than purchasing a new computer to
run these older programs I'm considering Virtual PC.  ...

I'Ve just installed virtual pc on my G4 ibook, but it will only run
when the installation disk is in the machine!  Is this meant to happen
- if not, any suggestions??
chris

I'm considering getting Virtual PC for my G4 PowerBook instead of
replacing my creaking PC. Having never used VPC before, I wonder if
anyone knows if I will be able to access Quick Books Online on my Mac
through VPC. It's the only PC app I use and QB Online does not support

After hearing comments that installing SP2 on XP speeds it up in VPC6,
I decided to try it out on a backup copy drive image of XP Home SP1
with no updates and security patches installed and a minimal
application install.  I know XP on VPC well, having used it

I have installed Palm Desktop 4.1 for my Sony Clie on my Virtual PC side
only. I can¹t get virtual PC to sync  with my sony even though VPC sees the
palm device when I look at the usb settings under vpc. I am using 6.1 on my
powerbook g4 with 1Ghz processor and 1Ghz of RAM. Any help ...

What kind of performance would I see running VP7 on a dual 2.5 G5?  Also, I
understand the new VPC includes support for DirectX.  Assuming this is
correct, what would performance playing a game be like?  I'm thinking in
terms of comparable PC speeds - such as P4 1.5, 2.0, 3G, etc.  ...