Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / February 2005

Hey everybody,
I am running on a Powerbook G4 15" wih 1GB of RAM and I just recently
purchased Virtual PC 7.0 with Windows XP Pro on it.  I have a few
questions on thing that I am trying to figure out how to do with

Can anyone help.
I've been using VirtualPC for a couple of months with no problems
(except that it is incredibly slow on networks) and suddenly now when I
try to start it up, it shuts down before it is even started. And when I

Hey everybody,
I recently cleaned VPC7 off my computer completely, reinstalled it and
I'm currently using Windows 2000. I have turned on the Windows
Application Dock Icon support, but it doesn't seem to be working at all.

I'm set up with VPC 7.0 running Windows XP on two different Macs with
OSX 10.3.8.  Within OS X, all connectivity works fine: I can dial, I
can use Ethernet, and I can connect via AirPort. Within Windows I can
dial, I can use Ethernet, BUT AIRPORT DOES NOT ALWAYS WORK.

I have been running Windows XP in VPC 7 on a G5 iMac for a couple of
months successfully.  But it has suddenly stopped allowing me to drag
and drop files from the Windows XP desktop to the Mac desktop - it used
to do this fine and was by far the simplest way of transferring what I

I purchased VPC7.01 as soon as it was released. It installed without
any difficulty. Recently it apparently became corrupted and would not
start up.
So I thought I would reinstall it. It got thru the first two CD's. When

Trying to install Virtual PC for Mac 7. Virtual PC installs fine. I
restart and then it asks me to insert the Virtual PC disk to install
Windows. But it won't recognize the disk even though it did recognize
it when installing Virtual PC.

Have a 17" IMac G4 with 1.25GB of ram. All of a sudden after I upped
the Ram on the IMac, I am no longer able to get to Full Screen mode.
Keeps telling me that " Your PC is using a video mode that is too
large for your monitor". It then switches back to windowed mode. No

Has anyone experienced the error message above relating to the CD
Drive?
The error message cannot find this file above in Drive D.
Cancelling twice makes it go away, until reboot when it appears yet

I have a imac G5 with Office mac installed. I want to put virtual pc on
but am not sure which version i need as i am already running Office.

I am a long-time Windows Developer and I need a new home machine that
can run Visual Studio .Net 2003.  My current old PC is a Dell 700MHz
with 512MB RAM.  Too slow really for Visual Studio .Net 2003.
Obviously it would be better to buy a new Windows PC but I'd really

running 7.01 VPC on OS X 10.3.8.... trying to load Suse 9.0 Pro for
testing, etc.
everything ok but it doesn't recognize an ethernet device - it will
recognize wireless, but not built-in ethernet on powerbook.

I used to use Virtual PC several years ago, but gave up on it when
Simply Accounting wouldn't work with it. Both the Virtual PC people and
the Simply people pointed fingers at each other, and were unwilling to
resolve the problem ("We don't support Virtual PC/Simply

if i purchase Virtual PC windows XP pro edition, will i be able to
install the multi language support pack for Win XP Pro?

Dear Users,
Is it possible to connect a MS Pocket PC device such as IPAQ PDA
(USB/Serial Port) to a Virtual PC Mac? If not, are there other
alternatives?