Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / October 2004

Those of you who are using virtual PC 7 will find that windows guest
OS image is much larger than the amount of used space indicated inside
the Windows guest OS. What causes this is that when Windows installs,
it copies a large number of temporary files during the installation

I see from the Microsoft website that I can install my "own licensed
copy of Microsoft Windows" in VPC, so that I don't have to buy a new
copy of Windows.  Here's my question:  Can I use a version of XP that
was purchased for another PC?  I assume that I would have to at least

When installing Windows 98 SE, Virtual PC 7 crashes every single time
the installer checks for the amount of available disk space.  Anyone
else have this problem?

I'm confused !
My VPC (6.1.1) doesn't seem to know what the time is !
If I leave it running (sometimes in the foreground, sometimes hidden) the
clock slowly falls behind reality :(

What kind of processor does V PC 7 emulate?  The previous version was only a PENT 2

Actually, it's been funky in every incarnation of VPC I ever tried, dating
back to the Connectix days.
Can't go into too may details on the program itself; it's proprietary stuff.
I'll call it "Program X." It was written in QuickBasic and works just dandy

My past experience upgrading from Virtual PC had a separate CD-ROM for
the Virtual PC software and the Windows operating system.  However, my
copy of Virtual PC and Windows XP Pro all came on one disk.  I would
like to upgrade, but Virtual PC 5 will not run on my machine, and I do

I just got my new iMac G5 (17",1.8 MHz) and used Setup Assistant to transfer
my files from my old machine. Everything works but VPC. My version is 5.04.
When I try to open the virtual machine it starts to boot and then the app
shuts down. I've tried creating a new one and made sure ...

I am working on some large RTF files (a translation project) and
saving to an external firewire drive. When I modify and try to save
them in VPC7, i get the following Winword error message :
"There has been a network of file permission error. The network

anyone tried to run Jasc Software's Paint Shop Pro 9 under VPC 6.1? all
i get is crashes inside the virtual Windows XP upon starting it up. this
is the first app i've tried that has had major problems with VPC.

I am getting error 0x80072EE2. Looked at notes files and tried all
fixes to no avail. Is the airport causing an access problem?

Just installed Windows XP Professional  on to my Virtual PC 6.0 for
MAC.  I am not able to transfer files from the MAC desktop to the PC
desktop and vice versa. Can anyone help? I am able to do this with
Windows 98.

I plan on buying the standalone version of VPC 7 because I have both
Win XP Home and Win2k Pro, Advance Server.
Which operating system do you think is the fastest to use based on
previous experience with VPC (version 6.1 or 7) ?

I started my install and got to the point where I had to reboot. It
told me to put in Disk 2 which I did and then it said to configure
windows. The black windows window came up and said, reboot or specify
boot disk. (something to that effect. I rebooted with the CD in the

I recently purchased VPC 7, and after playing about with it, I've
managed to get acceptable speed from using it (I have a LCD
iMac/800Mhz/512meg, so VPC6 wasn't too great with WinXP)
I followed the TechExtreme tutorial