Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / December 2004

I want to install VP version 7 on the G5 by upgrading from version 6.1,
but the G5 will not let me install version 6.1. How do I do this?

Virtual of PC got hanged.
Win 98 got hanged, suspended. The window of virtualpc could not be closed even. Undo drive was ON. I had to make force quit.
After force quit I got the Mac "blue screen" type in all languages of the world to hold the power button.
After reloading virtualpc ...

I have successfully installed VPC 7.01 on my Dual 2.0 G5. I find it's
running the apps I need it to without too much problem. It's
unpredictable when it starts doing something and tells me, "Go get
lunch while I finish this." One very quirky business is how many

Could somebody please advise me as to how I can back up the Virtual PC
within my OS X configuration.
I want reinstall my OS X operating system but I don't want to have to
reinstall Virtual PC and all of the programs.

Has anyone successfully installed and run any linux distribution on Virtual
PC 7 for Mac? I tried Fedora Core 3 and Mandrake 10.1 and neither will boot

Mandrake won't even install errors out with some fs or ...

Is it possible to print from VPC 6.1 to an AIO (HP 5500) through USB
connection to G4 iMac?

Could anyone help me with the following: I used Dutch telebanking
software from the Postbank on my G4/867 with VPC 6.1.1 for several
years. It worked well. Now I have bougt a G5 DP 1,8 GHz I had to uprage
to VPC 7.0.1 and could transfer my folder with Postbank data to the new

I'm in the investment business and wonder if anyone has used Virtual PC for
Mac 7.0 to run e-signal, Redi System or Instinet.
Thank you.

Installed Garmin software twice and still can't get MapSource to
recognize/locate my new StreetPilot 2610. This is the only reason I
bought VP& in the first place. Anyone have any experience/suggestions
on how to get this working???

Installed VPC 7 on my G5. Had been using VPC 5 with 2000 Pro on my
laptop. Copied 2000 Pro to the G5 and was asked for the license key to
install it. The license key asked for is 25 characters, but the only
key I can find that came with VPC 5 is 20 characters, and the key

I've created a second virtual machine with xp pro for development work.
 I need to change the file system to NTFS in this system and leave the
file system in the first version as FAT32.
Will vpc allow this?

I use a vpn to access data on my work network when I am on the road.
However I can't seem to see any of the data from within virtual PC.
I have tried both Virtual Switch and shared networking.  I usually
establish the VPN using the MAC vpn client but within virtual PC I

Has anyone run Excel/Visual Basic macros under Virtual PC successfully?
I have a spreadsheet on a windows machine that I would like to run on
my MAC and it won't run under Excel for MAC so thought I may try
Virtual PC.

Does anyone know of a MAC OSX fix for the Fedora 3 install problem?
I've tried all of the "fixes" in this group, as well as the fixes at
Bugzilla but I still can't get Fedora Core 3 to boot.  Most of these
fixes seem to be for the Windows version of VPC since they want me to

I am trying to connect a Celestron camera (still/moving) to my mac os X
10.2.8.  I am running both Windows 98 SE and Windows XP (no SP) on VPC.  When
connecting this device, I have tried both newer and older macintoshes and
newer and older operating systems.  I have also tried ...