Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2005

I am running Virual PC 7 on a G4 ibook. I'm wondering if the Streets &
Trips 2005 with GPS Locator will work?

Anyone know if by chance it will be possible to bring over the .vhd virtual
hard drives from Virtual PC 2004 for Windows to Virtual PC 7.0 for Mac? I
just recently moved over to a Powerbook, but would love it if I didn't have
to redo all of my Virtual PC installs and could just use ...

Ibook 1ghz/512 Mac OS 10.3.7
Imac DV 400/256 Mac OS 9.2.2
In the beginning I was able to connect to the internet. The connectivity
problem started after I updated my version of WindowsXP. Luckily I had a

I am trying to set up my Mac to print under VPC v7.  I am running Mac
OSX 10.3 and Windows XP Prof.  I get the message "Integration Disabled"
under the settings menu.  On the right hand side where it says "Send
Windows Documents to"  the choices are greyed out and it says "This

I own a legal copy of Quickbooks Pro 2004.  It cost me a pretty penny
and now I want  to run it on my PowerMac G4.  It installs fine, but
when I go to start it, it flashes the opening image and then closes
immediately with no error, warnings.  I have 1GB of RAM, which I've

I followed the various instructions on using Eraser to shrink VPC,
however, something happened on installing it.
I get an error message that says that "Virtual Machine User Services
has encountered a problem and needs to close..." I clicked close on

I am going nuts on this one and I am sure I am missing something. Can
I copy text from VP7, to a Mac program? For example, I want to copy
text from Access into Excel. I want just copy the text in the memo
field. I can't figure out how to do it! Is it possible? I've searched

Is it possible that Virtual PC7 would allow my kids to play windows
based games on a G5 Mini.  The games that they play now are running on
a 6 year old laptop running Win98. For Example (game)Backyard Baseball
2004.

In Virtual PC 6.1 It was Possible to change Network Type to Shared
Sockets via the script menu, (as per Microsofts support website) - this
was required if web pages did not load up due to a conflict on the
internet service provider.

Hi Anyone reliase there is a problem to send out fragmented packets on
Virtual PC for MAC under Shared Networking Mode?
I tried to do the following ICMP ping test to www.yahoo.com.
Under command prompt:

hope someone can help me.
I am using VPC5  WIN 98 on an i mac 500Hz OS 9.2. Using IE5 with no
problems. Yesterday, suddenly cannot surf the net. IE5 says server
cannot be found. Using imac surf net no problem. thought it was my

I just bought VPC 7 (no OS), installed, upgraded to 7.0.1 but cannot
install the OS. I first tried my old VPC 4.0 disk with Windows 98 CD
and it did not even capture the disc (it does not even show the
contents of the disc when I force manual capture). I have been trying

Even though it's not suppose to work, VPC 7 is working on the Pismo, it
just runs slow.
Would VPC 6 run faster on a 500MHZ machine than VPC7?
Would windows 2000 also run faster than Windows XP PRo?

After what could only be described as a mighty stuggle, I managed to
install my version of Windows 95 on Virtual PC 7.0.1 for Mac (the
mighty struggle included having to use a Windows 98 bootdisk image to
access DOS on VPC to then access the Windows 95 CD to then run the OS

I just purchased Virtual PC Version 7 for Mac. I'm upgrading from
Connectix Virtual PC 5 with Windows XP. I am running OS 10.3.7 on a
Dual 450 G4 with 1.38 GB SDRAM. The product info says it will upgrade
from ver. 5 but the installer won't run. HELP!!!!!