Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / March 2005

Hi.  I've got Virtual PC7 on my PowerBook G4 with 512mb ram.  It works okay,
a but slow but otherwise stable - I only run two programs on it that are not
available on Mac.  If I were to add an additional 512mb ram, would I see a
noticeable change in speed?  What is the optimum ...

A saved VM loads MUCH SLOWER when running under 10.3.8 (max. processor
load ± 8%) than before updating to 10.3.8 - in 10.3.7 (max. processor
load up to 85%). Even a complete re-install of VPC doesn't mak a
difference. But now I also get the error message "The PC could not be

I have recently purchased and installed VPC v7.0 (and upgraded to
v7.0.1) on my OSX 10.3 Powerbook.  I successfully installed Windows XP
Professional from the installation as well as CentOS Linux in another
instance.  I am using virtual switch for the network connectivity and

Dear Guys,
My daughter is going to college in the Fall.  She loves my Macs at home
and she will take my PB-G4 with her.
However, she still wants to be able to use the Windows Version of ICQ5

I've spent the better part of a couple of days messing around with upgrading
from 6 to 7 on a several of Windows 2000 files, and I'd like to offer some
tips ... at least they worked for me. I *still* have some issues, which I
will discuss as well.

I have a Mac Gs dual 2.0 Gig, with 4.5 gig ram.  am using Bell South
DSL with a connection speed of 1.5 mbps, am connected to the internet
via ethernet into a router I share with one person.  The connection is
very slow on virtual pc and causes problems with a program called

I wonder if anybody else is encountering similar problems using the
sharing folder feature of VPC 7.0.1 ...
I set up a Windows XP VM with 160MB RAM and I'm using the Codewarrior
9.0 and OpenWatcom development enviromments for producing Windows and

Hello all...
New to VPC here.  Installed v7 with Windows XP Pro.  All went smooth (
I thought).  I have followed the help page instructions regarding
enabling the Undo feature, however, I does not allow me to make any

Has anybody else had problems with their imac g5 & virtual pc 7?  Mine keeps
crashing and the problem is virtual pc 7!!!  Any suggestions besides getting
rid of virtual pc 7?
Thanks,

Here's the particulars about my Mac:
Machine Model:    Power Mac G5
 CPU Type:    PowerPC G5  (3.0)
 Number Of CPUs:    2

I installed the 6.1.1 update to my virtual PC. Now I cannot seem to
access the addition in the installer to reinstall file sharing. I need
to be able to share one file with my Mac. Any ideas?
thanks!!!!!

For the last month or so, I have been trying to connect my Garmin GPS
Quest, via USB,  to my system via Virtual PC with Windows XP
Proferssional without success. I installed VPC 7 on my dual 2.0 GHz G5
(OS 10.3.4) followed by the installation of MapSource, the Garmin map

I try to install activesync3.8 on virtualpc7.0.1, but unsuccessful, the
installation's never complete. Can anyone tell me how.

I've just installed Virtual PC 7.0.1, Windows 2000 Professional, and
MS Project (standard) 2003 on my G5 DP 2.5 (OS X 10.3.8).
MS Project Help says that I can select multiple resources by
control-clicking on the ones I want, but  the control key doesn't

I try to install the Activesync3.8 on virtual pc 7.0.1, but I cannot
complete it. I have heard that somebody can, please advise.