Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / April 2005

I installed my SanDisk reader on my iMACg5/VPC7, worked great.
On my iBOOKg4/VPC7, NOT. The Mac side likes it fine but not
the VPC.
Any ideas?

I have the same problem as the folks on the thread earlier this week
titled "Shared folders", but I can't even drag files from the Mac OS
desktop to the desktop in the virtual machine. That is, the "Shared
folders" option for the virtual machine doesn't allow me to add a

I have installed the Windows XP Professional and everything seems to be
ok, however when i click the buttom "Start up" it doesn not start and
there is the following message:
OS not found

I am  using VPC7 and I cannot get the shared folders to work.  I have
installed the additions but the settings still say the shared folders
are not installed.  I tried uninstalling the additions and reinstalling
but still no good.

Does anyone know of a way to convert the dynamically sized images that come
with VPC7 to a static size I select?  If I use the tool it wants to create a
15Gb static image, even though my W2K image is about 4GB.
Thanks.

I have a Mac G5 and have installed Virtual PC 7 and updated it to
7.0.1. I bought the standalone version of VPC 7 because I already had
VPC 4 from using it on my previous computer.... and on that one I
bought it with Windows 2000 included.

I am considering buying virtual pc for mac-windows professional.  can i
load all of it or most of it on an auxulliary hard drive in order to
preserve space on my mac?  is this advisable?  since i don't have a
copy of windows, is this the least expensive way to go to get a solid

One of the main reason why I'm using Virtual PC is to run MS Visio.
Is there a Mac software that would pretty much do the same thing and
let me create Network design?  Could I save under a Visio format?
Is there a Visio viwer for Mac?

I have 1GB on my Imac G5, but Windows Virtual PC only sees 512.  Is that the
limit or what do I need to tweek?
Tim Howard

I just installed VPC 7 with Windows xp pro on my G5 Imac.  I am running
10.3.8. I have tried several solutions to get it to print but it won't.
I usually try with notepad.  I tried turning off the usb setting that
someone suggested but that didn't work. I finally tried installing ...

How do I copy text from a program in VPC (say, browser) and paste it to a
program on my OS X main screen?

I have had success getting Red Hat 8 installed on VPC but have not been
able to overcome the frozen mouse.
I have also installed Red Hat 9 but get a resolution that I can't read.
I have also tried it on my Mac Ti Powerbook and set the resolution to

I'm running VPC 6.1 and XP.
Windows suggested I upgrade my software and I went along with it. It
turned out I was attempting to install the Service Pack II. After
rebooting VPC, I discovered that not only was I still running with

I've run into problems where TrueType Fonts plot 90 degrees rotated
when I run AutoCadLt 2005 on VP7.  I had no problems with this when I
ran AutoCadLt 2000 on VP7.  The work around I found is to change the
width factor on the TrueType Fonts from 1 to 0.99 but this is very

Cygwin is "a Linux-like environment for Windows".  We (myself and
colleagues in a research group) have used it to develop the Windows
port of our research software ("EDEN", which also runs on Linux,
Solaris and Mac OS X -- see http://go.warwick.ac.uk/eden/).