Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / March 2005

I keep trying to install VPC on my G4 running OS 10.3.8. It came w/ Office Pro
VPC7's install assistance kinda quits between step 2 and three leaving me
with a virtual machine that has no system.
Is this karma?

What is in the 3rd CD that comes with Virtual PC 7.0?
During my recent installation it was never called for.
Any info on it?

Will i be able to run pc based programs on my mac using virtual pc?
i've looked for info but didn't find anything. can anyone help me?

Using Systrem Tools, System Info in my client Windows OS shows
different CPU speeds.  I have a 1.5GHz G4 and one XP system shows about
1GHz (about right) but a second XP installation and my Windows 2000
installation both show just under 400MHz. Anybody know a way to get

I recently purchased this business planning software and am having an
odd problem.  The program works fine on VPC 6.1  on my G4 733 mhz
desktop but when I use the same Windows XP disk image on my G4, 1 ghz
powerbook I get an run time error when trying to open the program.  I

Is it possible to run Citrix with Virtual PC?.  I can't access Citrix
with our mac and was hoping I could do it with Virtual PC.  Any help is
greatly appreciated.

I have an iMac G5 with 512 MB memory. The performance of the Virtual PC
7 with XP Professional is noticeably slow.  For example, the media
player is virtually unwatchable.
If I increase the memory to 1 GB or even to 2 GB, will the Virtual PC 7

Does anyone know if the new Bernina Aurora machine with embroidery
module will run on VPC?  The machine must be connected to a PC in order
to embroider.
Thanks.

Although I did not buy VPC v.7 (Running Windows XP) for the purpose of
running games, I was hoping to be able to run a few pc-only simulators
on my Mac (PowerBook, 1.67 GHz Power PC G4, 2GB ram). The first sim I
tried was "MS Train Simulator." It installed fine but each time I have

I'm running virtual pc 7 on my powerbook g4/1.33 ghz.
Even my processor is clocked as fast as described above in the mac os x in
win xp emulation there is only a 300mhz cpu emulated!
I read here in some articles from people who has cpu emulations about 1

While trying to tweak my networking under Win Me and VPC6 I deleted my
network card under Control Panel+Network in the "The following network
components are installed list."  Thinking that Windows would try to
reinstall the plug and play driver for the emulated Intel 21041 NIC I

My many attempts at getting Windows XP Pro to see my network have met
with nothing but frustration and I am hoping someone on this newsgroup
can point out a solution.
I have a Dual Processor 1.8Ghtz PowerMac G5 with 512MB in my office

Wondering if anyone has Virtual PC 2004 (for PC) w/ SP1 installed, and
whether anyone has
actually ripped out of it the virtual hard disk pre-compaction tool
that comes with it.

I have been running VPC 7 for a few months.  Ran out of power on my
iBook battery (closed screen and went into sleep... guess it ran out of
juice there) must not have shut down Windows XP.  When I restarted my
iBook and tried to run XP it scanned for errors and the kept giving me

When I purchased the box, it came with 3 dics (2 blue ones and 1 white) the
white ones has additiona system files on it..... (okay stupid question coming
up)... Was I supposed to run that white cd and load the system files? I've
tried to both in macs operating system as well as ...