Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / October 2004

i have VPC 6 w/Win2000. after i upgrade to VPC 7, can i want to
reinstall Win2000 for VPC 7 again?
Kidd

Ever since I update my OS X to 10.3.5, VPC 6.1.1 has frequently
stopped responding to keyboard and mouse input. The application
refuses to quit even when force-quitted and will not respond to any
AppleScript commands. I can still switch to the Virtual PC window, and

If I use Network Switch I cannot get a reliable VPC network connection as I
switch frequently from wired and wireless networks.
So I thought I would use shared networking but while I can see the network
reliably under this method I get DNS error messages when web browsing under

I'm hoping someone can help...
I was trying to run XP via VPC 7 on my ibook.  No dice.  Yesterday
bought a spiffy new G5 imac and installed VPC fresh- thought that
might help.  STILL doesn't work.  I saw the posts about "start

So - does anyone have the real story from Microsoft when this 2 Gig Ram
Limit will be fixed???  This pulling out your RAM solution is rediculous!
I use my Mac for Video production - and I need all of the 4 Gig of RAM I
have installed.   This needs fixed - and I agree - we should ...

I've attempted to install all of the following software with no luck:
-.NET 1.1 Framework
-Visual C# 2005 Express beta
-Visual Web Dev 2005 Express beta

  Found today on MacFixIt:

I'm attempting to run VPC6 on an G3 iBook running OSX 10.3.5.
The software seems to have installed correctly but when I attempt to
launch it / use it, I get the following error mesage:
"Your Virtual PC preferences cannot be upgraded because one or more

All of a sudden, my windows updates all fail in VPC 6.1.1. I have 2
images, an XP pro and a 98, and at the same time , they BOTH started
failing. Same thing after reinstalling VPC 6.1.1
Same thing happens if I try to play any games on MSN zone (which I have

Is it okay to have the VPC drive image on an external firewire drive? I'm
interested in saving space on my internal HD, and it would be great if I
could stash the humongous Windows OS drive image on an external drive
dedicated to to just VPC's use.

I am planning to purchase Virtual PC 7 with Windows XP Pro.
I was just wondering if you have to activate the version of Windows
that is bundled with VPC7.
Thanks

This is too true: I have 3GB RAM in a dual G5, abd VPC7 truly screwed
up my primary drive.  I do not doubt that Microsoft knew prior to
releasing the product that this was a bug.  What really pisses me off
is the fact that the G5 is what neccessitated the development of VPC7.

Does anyone know how to install a disk image from a previous (OS 9)
version of VPC? It would be nice to have both Windows 98 and XP
available because I am running some software that has some issues with
XP.

When I try to change the settinggs for shared folders, everyhing is greyed
out and cannot make any changes to this setting for Windows XP Home
I run Mac OS X and a powerbook G4
Ed

Will .NET Studio run on VPC 6.1? I have a client that needs me to do some
.NET work and I need to install this. However, I don't want to crash my  VPC
by doing it (I'm nervous as installing SQLServer 2000 under VPC killed VPC
and I needed to recreate the image from scratch)