Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / June 2005

I've suddenly been getting an "Application failed to initialize"
message whenever I click on any program in VPC. I have V. 7 and am
working on Mac OSX. The message also includes this string of numbers
and letters: 0xc00000005. I've tried restarting the computer and also

I have VPC 7.01/Windows XP and Tiger 10.4.1. I need to move files back
and forth. I've tried dragging - no luck. I've tried copy and paste -
no luck. The help file tells me to use "shared files". But, I can't
figure out how. I went to "settings" on the Virtual PC list and see

Somebody already asked the following question before, but I didn't see any
answers, I am in the same situation.....
"I am considering an upgrade to VPC 7.0, however, I do not currently have
the earlier version 6 program installed on my G5 (OS 10.3.8) as it is not

Hi
Since upgrading to OS X 10.4.1 and VPC 7.0.1 I get the following
entry in my system log after booting.
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I am running virtual pc7 on a g4 powerbook.  when using pc7 if i try
to drag a file from the windows world to mac, I get an error meesgae
"1001"
has anyone else had this problem?  I can’t seem to find a fix on the

Just installed VirtualPC 7 together with windows XP home edition on an
Imac G5. I wanted to install  a program for windows, firstly everything
went well, the Cdrom started the installation but then the program
wanted to check my licence. The program asked to insert the floppy into

I have installed matlab 7 in windows 2000 sp1 on vpc 7 running on a
10.3 system.  The program starts, opens all its major windows and then
shuts down cleanly.  Does anyone know how to correct this?.  Has anyone
else been able to run matlab 7 on vpc 7 in any version of windows?

Now i know its thinking with rose tinted glasses on, but is it possible
to run a virtual pc image created under windows, on a mac?
I have a developer windows 2003 image, which was created using VPC 2004
but under windows, and ideally i'd love to work on it on my mac with

I'm a journalist reviewing Virtual PC for Mac Version 7. I have a
simple question for which I have not been able to find an answer
anywhere on Microsoft's site. I don't necessarily want to contact MS's
PR hacks and get a "canned" answer to this, so here I am...

I got virtual pc (vpc) 7 and upgraded to it from vpc 6. I have my
Windows 2000 operating system on my vpc6 disc. I installed vpc7, but
couldn't load windows 2000 from the vpc6 disc. So, I re-installed vpc6
with windows 2000 to get a clean copy, the upgraded to vpc7, selecting

I am a new mac user switching from PC.  I have tried to load VPC from
my MSDN Universal license but
have been unable to get past the 2nd step of the 3 step install
process.

Dear members:
This is my first post to the group so please forgive me if my question has
been discussed here before.
I have just recently updated to Virtual PC 7 and soon after that I also

Has anyone tried to install the 64 bit version of Windows XP yet in a
VPC?

I am puzzled by an apparent difference in VPC RAM usage between my
laptop (PB15/1GB RAM) running VPC6 and my new iMac G5 (2GB RAM) running
VPC7.  When I start up my Windows 2000 Pro virtual machine on my
laptop, the amount of physical RAM allocated to VPC6 is over 400 MB

When will Microsoft have the updated version of Virtual PC 7.0.1?  I have
upgraded to Tiger for development reasons and need to have networking under
Virtual PC to complete the development cycle.