Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / August 2005

Does VPC support web cameras.  I am using a usb based I/O magic IPC 380
cam, running VPC 5.0on a Powerbook G4 OS 10.5.  The softwear loads fine
but the cam image is black no image.  online chated with Henry about
this issue threw it back you your team.  So watcha ya think???

Need help with an update that doesn't know when to quit.
Attempted to load google earth. Couldn't progress without Direct X
settings, so I took the computer's option to try again later. Selected
Turn Off the Computer. Screen told me I was being given two updates

I am trying to get Windows XP to recognize my device.
Let me briefly explain the steps I've followed already.
Numorous clean install/re-installs into BOTH XP PRO AND HOME resulted
in the results over and over in both.

Anyone managed to get NetWare 6.5 running on VPC 7? I can get as far as
the network board drivers but can't get anything here to work.
Searching the archives I've seen mention of a VPC specific NetWare
network driver but none of the links provided to this seem to work. Can

Anyone know if iSight works with MSN Messenger?

Is there any solution to this problem? Note that KB886383 has been
around for  a year with no solution yet. I am trying to print a
multiple page document from a DOS based program, but only the FIRST
page prints, with 100's of blank pages after that.

What do I do if I have been infected by the sasser worm?

I own VPC 5.0 with Windows 2000 Pro on CDs and VPC 6.1.1 via paid
downloaded upgrades, installed only on a backup drive, because the
original installation was on an iMacSE whose drive failed beyond
retrieval. I purchased VPC 7 upgrade to install on my G5 iMac running

When I start Virtual PC every time this process -
"VirtualPCNetworkingServices" always hanged (Activity Monitor), whether
I use the built-in Ethernet port (en0) or Airport (en1). However I
still get network connectivity within the Virtual PC. I'm wondering if

Is there any posted information about the AppleScripts for VPC? It appears as
though I don't really need them, as things are working okay, but in any case
I'd like to know more about them ... more detail than the titles, which are
descriptive.

The help files describe setting up VPC to use a modem by attaching a USB
to serial converter and an external modem.
That seems silly when my PowerBook has an excellent internal modem. Is
there any way to use it from VPC?

I have an iMac with VPC for Mac 6.1.  I have a bunch of image files to
move from the Mac side to the PC side but every time I try to drag and
drop the files on the Windows desktop, I get an error message.  I've
tried JPEGS, TIFFS, EPS files.  Nothing works.  I absolutely hate this

People,
I ran Eraser on my hard disk image to zero out unused space and then
tried to run the VPC utility for reclaiming zeroed out space. It gets
about 80% of the way through the process and then quits due to

I am using VPC 7.02 that I bought without an OS. I have a legit XP Home
disc, but when I get to the point in the install process that it asks
me to agree to the EULA, it tells me to press F8 to agree. But when I
press F8 on my Powerbook G4, I get no reponse, so it aborts the

Is it posible to set hardware breakpoints in virual pc running on power
pc.  I am using Windows 2k in VirtualPC 7.0 running on Tiger
Thanks