Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / March 2005

As part of Office:mac 2004 Professional Edition, I made an initial
installion of Virtual PC v7 and then installed Windows XP on my Mac G4
running OSX version 10.3.8.
Installation appeared to be successful for the English language.  Then

Am I going to be exposed to more computer viruses and security issues
by installing Virtual PC 7 on the primary drive of my Mac?
What have you experienced?
Regards

Can I install and run Virtual PC 7 from and EXTERNAL DRIVE and run it
from there as needed?
Thank you in advance for your replies.

My old laptop has give up the ghost so I installed OziExplorer on my
Mac with VPC. It
worked fine until I upgraded to the latest version (so I can use USB)
now will not start but

My goal is to run a program called Solidworks. Its a 3d CAD type of
program. My usage is light in fact I am able to use a IBM laptop P3 1
GHz with 16 meg of video ram. It's a little slow but OK.
Questions

I am working with a school that wants to use Frontpage for their
website, but alas, all they have are Macs, no PC's.  Can I use Virtual
PC to create the environment so that FrontPage 2003 will run directly
on the Mac?  They will be using FTP to post, not Frontpage, so I just

I bought a Mac G5 and want to upgrade from my old VPC 6.1 to the
G5-compatible version, but (since 6.1 won't load on the G5) am
reluctant to pay for the upgrade without knowing I can activate it with
my old software info. Will that work, or is there another way to do it?

My mouse will not work on Windows 2000.  I an unable to click on any icon
andI have to do a force quit to get out of Windows  Any suggestions on how to
fix this major problem?

All,
I have recently installed Virtual PC/Windows XP Home on my Macintosh
G5.  The program seems to work well; however I am not sure about the
right way to go about starting the programs - at the moment I am

I have a mac mini (512 Mo ram) with OS 10.3.8, VPC6.1 and Win98.
I have a Logitech webcam pro 4000.
I have installed the drivers but my usb webcam is not recognized,
meanwhile it is plugged directly on the mini (not on my apple usb

Suppose I want to restore a VPC based hard drive from a backup set of
the Macintosh HD. Which directories or files need to be restored?

I am attempting to install Virtual PC 7 on my G5 Mac running 10.3.8
with 90 GB free on my drive. In the "select Destination" screen I
notice that it says "Installing this software requires 0 bytes of
space". I then select my correct drive. On the "Installation Type"

Howdy all -- I just sent this email in response to a thread.  Some you
may find it useful...
Here's an email that I just sent in reply to another thread...  You may
find it useful...

I just got the VPC 7 upgrade.  I have VPC 5 with Windows XP Home.
Awhile back (I think when I upgraded to Panther) VPC 5 stopped working.
I tried to reinstall it and even deleted my Windows Xp image.  Problem
is I could never get VPC 5 to reinstall. So now I want to upgrade to 7

I was wondering if it is possible to run the 64bit version of linux on
my mac g5 run virtual pc.  If so, which version, ia64, i386 64?  Please
let me know what you think.  Otherwise, I will stay with the i386
version.