Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / December 2004

i got 6.1 to run on my iMac, but before i installed it i upgraded to a
G5.  obviously, i never installed windows XP pro that came with it
because 6.1 did not run on the G5.  i got the 7.0 upgrade without
windows because i figured i did not need it.

Hi, I have a Powermac G5, VPC 6 with XP Home, and just received and
loaded up the VPC 7 upgrade. I had unsatisfactorily tried VPC 6 on an
old eMac that I've long since sold, and not touched VPC 6 since getting
the G5. Now I have VPC 7 installed, but I don't have the old XP Home

Having difficulty getting IE to connect to the net. Using VPC7 on G5
with 10.3.6. Have DSL connection.  The Home XP network connections is
set to LAN and when I check status it says I'm connected. Yet when I
fire up IE or try to set up .NET, neither are able to get onto the net.

Has anyone had any problems with no longer being able to run 1024x768
and at least 16-bit color under VPC 7?  I had no problem with this
under VPC 6, and now this thing keeps changing it back to 16 colors
(not 16-bit) and 640x480 pixels.  I even bumped the PC memory up to

I've searched everywhere about a solution on this topic, but found
nothing helpful.
I am unable to get a D-Link USB-Bluetooth adaptor (DBT-120) to work in
VPC 6.1.1/Win XP Pro - in Mac OS X it works fine, but after installing

I installed Virtual PC 7 without a problem. Then when I went to install
Windows XP I first got the error message: "The file acpiec.sys is
corrupted." I tried installing a couple of times and finally it got passed
this error message. But then I got the following message: "Setup could ...

Can anyone point me to a solution for a problem please?
Because VPC is flaky with WiFi and Virtual Switch I am having to use Shared
Networking as both my home and work environments are wireless.
Now at home I have no problems and VPC works fine to access both my work

I am considering getting VPC to use the DVD backup soft DVD Shrink and would
like to hear from anybody's experience with this combination, are there any
compatibility issues, problems and such? Also, which revision have you tried,
6 or 7? From the various posts it seems that VPC7 ...

New Printer (Epson Stylus CX6500) is not working in VPC 6.1. The
printer works fine in Mac OSX. Computer is eMac 1.25GHz G4 with 1GB
RAM and OS 10.3.3. VPC settings are USB port enabled and USB 2.0 MFP
(HiSpeed) is visible and checked.

I just purchased VPC 7 so I can run a GRE test prep software. It has
extremely minimal requirements. When I try to run it, the video and
sound are extremely choppy, making the program unusable. I tried using
Media Player, to see if it was just the program, but all video/sound

Have just installed VP7 on my Dual G4 with OSX 10.3.6.  How do I safely
uninstall VP6?

I'm using vp7.0.1 with osx10.3.6, the vp7 has windows xp pro
The switching between mac applications and window sis toooooo! Slow
Please help

I have recently purchased a copy of VPC 7 for Mac OSX.    
When I use shared networking, Internet Explorer will no longer connect.  
Instead it shows a "Page cannot be displayed dialogue"
I know that the network connection is good as OS X connects correctly.

Hello, I have researched buying VP7, but I still have a couple of
questions. I have a new PB, and an old Sony VAIO with Windows ME.
Should I buy the VP7 version made for people already owning a version
of Windows? Or, should I buy VP7 XP, to have a better OS than ME? Also,

I was using VPC 6+ w/XPPro on a Mac G3 earlier this year. Then, upgraded
computer to G5 dual.
Couldn't load the VPC (incompatible with G5 architecture).
Now, the VPC 7 is compatible with the G5.