Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / December 2004

I get this message when tyring to start up vpc with win2k
"The primary disk image could not be written to. The image file may be
locked. The disk image has been mounted read-only. Most operating
systems cannot boot with a read-only primary disk"

Gang,
I'm currently on a Mac G5/1.6, running VPC7 with XP Pro.  I can't
figure out how to activate the numeric keypad.  The help file says to
press the NUMLOCK key but the Apple keyboard does not have one.

I'm running VPC7 on OS 10.3.6 on a Powerbook.
I have Built-in-Ethernet selected in the Virtual Switch preferences
and I have used the TCP/IP properties from the Network Configuration
to specify my own IP address. I chose to use 192.168.1.4 because this

Earlier this year Microsoft issued this security patch for Windows 2000
that seemed to somewhat break Win2K.
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-011.mspx>
After updating the VPC Windows 2000 operating system (in VPC 6.1) with

I have been ardently trying to get several online chats to work. I
think it is getting to be an obsession! LOL
http://www.talkingcommunities.com : I got it to work in VPC 6.
Originally I logged on and couldn't hear the sound. I found an article

Today i hav probed to install Gentoo Linux on my G5, Version 2004.3
bottstrapping from stage one. VPC7 emulates a Pentium2-MMX, but this does
not work.
Have anybody an Idea? P2-Code generates segmentation-faults...

Does the XP Pro that comes with VPC 7 come with IIS 6.0 like the
regular XP Pro does? Or is it downloadable from the microsoft website?
Everytime I look for an IIS 6.0 download on the Microsoft site, it
points me to VisualStudio.Net...

The following note was in MacInTouch

I have this kind of Proglem:
I would like to use PC software what is made with Direct X (9.0c)
version required.
I have installed doth (direct x and the software i would like to use),

Running Windows XP Pro on VPC 7 on a Mac Powerbook G4,  Windows reports that
it has an "Intel 21041-based PCI Ethernet adapter" for networking.
This is a 10-Mbit/s driver.
The Mac PB has a gigabit Ethernet interface. Not that the PB can fill a gig

Gang,
I use SanDisk Cruzer Micro flash drives with my Macs.  If I insert a
flash drive into a USB port while VPC is the current application, it
mounts briefly on the Mac desktop, then dismounts, and I get an error

I was using VPC 6 w/ WinXPPro on a G-3 (OS10.2) last fall and upgraded the
computer to a G-5 Dual.  The VPC wasn't compatible with the G-5 so couldn't
load it.
Now that VCP 7.0 for G5s is available can I purchase and load an upgrade?

Does MS Flight Simulator work well with Virtual PC on a Mac or is there a
considerable slowdown?

I'm using Virtual PC to enable testing websites on "the other side,"
i.e., to check how the websites display on a Windows computer.
I can't flush the cache in either IE or Firefox. This tells me that
the inability to flush the cache is probably caused by Virtual PC. --