Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / March 2005

I am running Virtual PC 6.1.1 on a Mac Powerbook G4 with Windows 98SE.
After installing Norton Internet Security 2003, always get a "Fatal
Exception Operating Error" relating to the SymTDI.Vxd File when rebooting
W98SE, and NIS will not work.

I bought a new PowerBook and transferred over the applications.
When I try to launch my Virtual PC program, I get this message:
To finish starting up Virtual PC, permission for application support
files must be set correctly. This step completes the installation of

My VPC 5 crashed last week and I could not get the Virtual PC List to create
a new window. So I reloaded virtual PC on my G4 laptop, which runs OS 10.2.8.
Virtual PC installs just fine but when I go to MS windows updates, I can only
download 2 updates and restart the  system. The ...

I have a mac mini, virtual PC 7, and windows xp home edition installed
on it. I installed a game on it called "maple story", and whenever I
try to open the game in windows, it gives me the error: "0xc0000005".
Can anybody help me? Thanks.

I just upgraded my VPC to 7.0.1 and both myself and my MIS contacts are
getting frustrated with the connection speed as well as the fact we
can't seem to find any ajustments to increase the speed. Can anyone
help?

Ok, First off thanks for the quick response to my last question.
Now on to bigger things, Do I need to install virus protection on the
windows side even if I have it on the mac side where the internet
connection is made? If so could you reccomend some. My MIS dept. uses

Can I run the newest PC version of MSN messenger when using Virtual PC
7?  Will webcam and audio work? Has anyone tried MSN, Yahoo, or Instant
messenger?

I have OSX 10.3.5 and VPC 7.01 and cannot access internet.
I get   "cannot find server or DNS error " when I try to
access an web adress. Email is working fine.
I have Shared Network activated in VPC.  My connection to internet is

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I am thinking about buying a G5 Imac and Virtual PC 7. My current computer
is a Pentium 111 (450mhz) with 512 meg Ram ,running Windows XP Pro. The Guy
in the Mac shop said Virtual PC only runs very slowly like the speed of a
Pentium 11. Is that so?? and would buying 1 GIG of ram  or ...

I'm new to Virtual PC 7.0.1.
I'm running Windows 2000 Professional, SP4, with all patches, inder Mac
OS 10.3.8 on a 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4 with 1.5 GB RAM.
I allocated 256 MB RAM to Windows originally and upped it to 512 MB today.

I have a vhd of windows XP running on my host windows XP.
I want o know if I can just copy the vhd file to a host running
Mac OS and run up the guest os as I would on windows.
That is, is the vhd file portable from windows to mac.

We use VPC at work, on Windows, so that we can manage a large variety
of setups easily. I've got an iBook, and wanted to use some of these
images at home. I've attempted to import them, but when I try and open
the .vhd file via the File menu, they're greyed out, and when I try to

I run a Tomcat webserver for application development on my powerbook G4
and I need to browser-test using VPC 7 and IE6 when completely
disconnected from a network. I tried several of the tips listed here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200309111247589 92

I sell a business telephone call accounting system that is windows
based, and uses mySQL as its database. I would like to install this
program on my Powerbook. I purchased and installed Virtual PC 6, then
upgraded to version 7. The developers who created the program are not