Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2005

Using Virtual PC 7.0.1 [w/out OS] and installing my own XP Pro license.
During setup, activation times out.  I click 'remind me later' so as to
continue setup.
**I realize that I can Activate over the phone - this is simply

will virtual PC 7 support dual monitor and dual monitor apps.

After installing Service Pack 2 for my XP Home on VPC 6.1.1, Mac OS X
Version 10.3.7, upon restart I got the black "Last Known Good
Configuration" screen.  After selecting "Last Known Good
Configuration", it just restarts the same screen.

I'm trying to install Stock Investor Pro, a Windows application
produced by the American Association of Individual Investors, running
Virtual PC 7 (Windows XP Home) on a G5 Mac.
The disk mounts and the installer starts up, but then produces the

I use VPC as little as possible, but of necessity for one important app.
I try to do my web browsing directly from the mac side, but just
occasionally I need to do something on the Win side (XPPro btw) that
involves web browsing. I've tried IE, Firefox and opera - all seem

is it possible to install a suse linux on VPC on an PB MAC and then use
this virtual maschine as server. Is it possible to connect from the
host MAC using tcp to the vpc suse linux server?
If it is possible, how do i have to configure the vpc?

I just got a new iMAC 20" G5 and want to install VPC ver7.  I bought
the upgrade so I need to install version 5 with XP Pro.   I also have
ver6.1, but that is an upgrade too.   When I install ver 5 I get the
following errors.

I attempted to post the following e-mail to Microsoft:
I bought Virtual PC v. 7 (Windows XP Home Edition) and installed it on
my 800Mhz iBook G4 with 640MB RAM (OSX 10.3.7). I am totally
dissatisfied with the product and am requesting a full refund. Here's

I just installed NetBarrier X3 (Intego) onto my iMac. When I went to
use Internet Explorer in VPC7 (Windows XP) I was unable to surf net.
Any page I go to would just hang. I tried turning NetBarrier firewall
off, but I still could not surf net in VPC.

I've got Virtual PC 7.0 running on my iMac G5 (1.6 GHz), and I've tried
installing both Windows 98 and Windows ME (on new disk images) and the
same thing happens both times - Virtual PC crashes right at the point
when I've selected the type of Windows install I want to do (Custom,

I have HL 1440.
Spent hour with Microsoft adding other printers. Anyone succeed in printing
with this?  
OS 10.3.7

Purchased Office Professional version and installed VP7 but it hangs at the
installation of Windows, indicating no OS available.  It seemed like all the
descriptions of the bundle implied that this included a Win distribution,
but I am coming to conclusion that I now have to go buy ...

How can I install Quicken for Windows to Virtual PC to see my older
Quicken files remained from my Window days??? I try to copy the CD to
Virtual PC it gives the error that it is bigger than 4 GIG although the
CD can never be that big... I checked it is only couple of MGs... Does

Anybody know what else I can try to get my VPC7, G5DP, & 4MB RAM to get
along? I thought 7.01 was supposed to fix this. :-(

Running VPC 7.01 on Dual 1.8 G5 with NVIDIA Geoforce FX 5200 video and
Windows 2000 Pro.
When trying to change display resolutions, the error message says that
"The graphics driver returned an unexpected error" and resorts to the