Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / November 2004

I'm running OSX 10.3 on a PowerMac G4 dual 867 with 768 Megs/Ram.  I'd
love to get VPC 7 and run Win XP or Win 2K, but I'm not sure what the
performance will look like on this box since it's not a G5.  Anyone
running VPC7 on a G4?

I have Virtual PC 7.0 open in "Window Mode" so that I can drag files
from my apple desktop onto the Virtual PC desktop. When this happens
there is a slight 10 second pause and the error below is returned.
What I was doing was simply dragging a PDF file from the Mac desktop

I'm going to be getting my first Mac this January -- I haven't yet
decided which model yet. My question, though, pertains more toward
Virtual PC:
I'm a web developer, and Visual Studio.Net IIS, SQL Server, and

I can´t find the "insert" key. Does exists a key combination that works ?

Hello, I'm wondering what I need to do to smooth out fonts in IE 6 on
Win XP Pro. Here is a sample of what I'm seeing:
http://www.blueskyis.com/winpic.html
You can see that the heading is a jagged and the text looks poor.

(sorry if this shows up twice)
I pulled my hard drive out of my old windows laptop and stuck it in an
external hard drive box.  All the data is the same as it was the last
time i booted up my old computer, which had w2k on it.  Is there any

I don't get it. Unless I'm missing something here, why has no one asked
about where the update version of VPC 7 is? If you already have VPC 6 and
want to _upgrade_ to VPC 7 how do you do that? It appears that MS has not
released an upgrade path. If you want VPC 7 you must buy it all ...

I have just upgraded to VPC7.01
I cant get the @ symbol to work , every time I try to enter it , it displays as "  
Any ideas ?
Thanks Clive  ( UK Mac user)

I run a Mac DP G5 with 4.0 GBytes of RAM.  For reasons that
subsequently became obvious, when I tried to install VPC 7.0, the
installation process came to a halt part way through Step 2 when the
script tried to fire up VPC and install Windows XP, which faulted at

I recently installed the patch for 7.0 to get to 7.0.1 and was working in
MINITAB 14.13 (the latest edition available) and noticed a strange bug.  If
you type into a cell in MINITAB any number less than 100000 everything is
OK. If you type in any number larger than or equal to ...

I like at least a few other posters bought vpc7 to try and run some pc
only games on my mac.  Thus far I have only been able to get the the
processor speed up to 333mhz.  Is anyone aware of methods to improve
the effective performance of windows xp within os x?

Does VPC 7 install a kernel extension? I assume it does, because I don't
know why else the installer would require a restart.
But I checked my list of kernel extensions, and I can't seem to find any
that belong to VPC. One called "shared networking" looks like a likely

Ahs anyone run Solaris under virtualpc. Any comments?
/ Fredrik

Hi
Is anyone having any luck all running VPC over an airport connection?
When I used 'shared' networking I have DNS problems.
When I use 'Direct Switch' I get an unreliable connection (as per the read

I have just installed vpc 7.1 on my imac osx10.3.6
I am trying to set up a mail account in outlook express 6.0 (windows xp pro )
when I insert the @ symbol in the set up wizard it displays as a "
I have even tried copy & paste from textedit in osx.