Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2005

Having trouble getting an OS installed in VPC 6.1. I have an old
Windows 95 disc that I'm trying to install from, but I can't get it to
boot. Here's what I've done:
1. Created new Windows 95 PC

As a Web Designer Working on a Mac (1.5Ghz Powerbook with 1GB RAM) I
need a way of testing my web creations in various browsers running in
Windows.
I'd rather not get a PC just for testing websites, so I'm interested in

I need to re-install my PowerBook.
Anyone who can tell me how to save my work from VR PC ( Windows XP PRO, and
the information stored) so I don't loose all my work?
I Use:

Hey there, I'm running Windows 2000 Pro in VPC 6.1.1.  My primary HD is
nearly full @ 1.35GB - is it possible to create a new larger HD and
copy everything over to it?  If so, what is the best program/utility to
do this?

I am about to start using VPC to run Windows 2000 (Win2K) and Office
2000, which were previously installed on a (now dying) PC.  Are there
any issues I should be aware of, when installing Win2K and Office
2000. (I am sorry if some of these seem rather basic.)

After I did a re-install of my OS X, VPC 7 still cannot be installed.
So I come here to ask for you guys' help....
The installation process goes pretty well until the "Install OS"
session. It prompts a window saying "...Unable to convert Harddisk

Can I use my isight with VPC7? Or only with OSX?

I just installed vpc 7. Awfully large.  4GB.  Is this what you are all
getting too?
Thanks.
OS 10.3.7

I have been trying to get VPC 7 to work on a dual processor G5 Mac, 2
GHz with 2.5 GB of RAM. I install VPC, then upgrade it to 7.01. Then I
install Windows XP and start it.
When I update the additions, and shut down XP it crashes during shut

I recently installed VPC 7 on an iMac G5 (1GB RAM) and although it
initially worked reasonably well, it has become increasingly erratic.
Now when the Windows XP screen comes up (the one that reads "To begin,
click your user name"), it will not allow me to type in the admin

I just installed Virtual PC 7 on my G5 and it was working great until
now. Now, for some reason, the mouse just drags a selection box around
parts of the screen (like the Marquee selection in Photoshop) and I
can't click on anything. This only is happening in the VPC window, none

I am trying to install Red Hat Linux 9 in VPC 7.01, it installs fine
apart from reboot when there seems to be a problem with the graphics.
Red Hat chooses a S3 Virge automatically but that doesn't seem to work
properly I have a PBook 12" G4 867Mhz with Nvidia 32 Mb Graphics chip

I've just upgraded to VPC7.  NT4 (Service pack 6) works OK under it,
except I have no internet access.  When it starts up I get the message:
At least one service failed during system startup. Use Event Viewer to
examine the event log for details.

Every time I try to restart VPC 7.0.1, I get the following error
message during shutdown: "VMSRVC.exe: The instruction at 0x0012e75e
referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be 'read'." It
then asks me whether I want to debug or cancel. If I do nothing, the

I've just installed Fedora Core 2 Test 2 on VirtualPC 6.1.1.  GRUB (the
bootloader) runs fine, but as soon as it tries to load the kernel, I get
an error saying `An unrecoverable processor erro has been encountered.
The PC will now restart'.  Has anyone else encountered this ...