Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / March 2005

I just set up my new iMac and Epson printer. I can print fine from the
Mac to the Epson. But when I try to print from a Windows app in Virtual
PC, nothing happens. When I check the status in the Printing Setup
Utility back in OS X, it says "Printing Stopped". My file is listed. I

Sorry for the simple question -- I haven't seen this in the archives.
I'm Mac vet (and mostly PC-illiterate) who recently purchased a 1.2 g4
iBook with 512 RAM running 10.3.8. I need to run one fairly simple .exe
application for about 2 months. I'm on a student budget, and have

Check it out?  I recently bought Navman 4460 GPS system on eBay ($155
new in box instead $500!) only to discover it's not Mac compatable.
Oops...  then I discover about VPC. Aha- work around.  the thing is
mine is an older G3 Mac but running nicely with an upgrade (Mac OS X

So should those of us who are in dire need of VPC rush out to buy Tiger
when it appears?
I'd think that VPC would need another stage of evolution before it would
 co-exist...

This message appears everytime I start VPC (7.0.1 for Mac, running Win
2K).
Everything "seems" to be working OK, but is there some problem I should
be aware of?

I have purchased VPC for Mac 7.0.
It arrived with 2 CDs: Installation CD and "Additional Windows System
Files" CD
I was able to install VPC on my iBook G4 without a problem. I was able

I have separate Virtual PC disk images for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. They
are both huge multi-gigabyte files even though I have installed only a few
extra applications in each environment.
Is there any way to make these files smaller? I've tried using Virtual Disk

I do not understand your  question  regarding  the topic of
root\system32\hal.dll  I am going to try what some else in this message bord
suggested insert the Microsoft xp cd and restart windows holding down the
space bar... But I will not be able to try this till tommorow, because ...

I have Office 2004 Student and Teacher edition.  Does that edition include a
Virtual PC 7 license?

I just installed Virtual PC 7, and did the update to 7.0.1, and I find
that I cannot print to either of the
two printers connected to my Dual 2GHz G5 system. Both printers work
great from native Mac OS X apps, but using the "VM Additions Printer

System: PowerBook, 1GB RAM, Panther 10.3.7, VPC 7.0.1 with Win2K + all
updates, and with VPC additions.
A few weeks ago I started getting a dialog in Windows saying that VMUSrvc.exe
has caused an error. Nothing seemed to be impacted and everything worked

I have VPC 7.0.1 running XP Pro on new PowerMac that works great except
I can't install Attachmate Extra! 6.5 that I use to connect to office
mainframe.  The office doesn't support VPC or Mac so I'm posting here.
Attachmate Extra is old application originally written for Win95 but ...

  My name is Sandra and I have Virtual PC 7 with Windows XP
Professional. I have a G4 power mac.
I installed the virtual PC and the windows on my computer. I have been
using it for about 3-4 weeks now and all of sudden I cannot get winows

Can you boot up windows from the disk that came with the vpc? I was
told I need to either reinstall the pc or boot it up with a disk and I
cannot figuire out how to do either of these. If I try to reinstall it
just creates another pc verses reinstalling over the current one.

Microsoft has limited Virtual PC 7 to 16MB of Video RAM.
Yes, previous versions had only 4MB, and 16MB is better.
But by limiting Virtual PC 7 to 16MB of Video RAM, Microsoft has struck
a huge blow, helping to limit the Macintosh in what games it can play!