Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / August 2005

I'm new here, sorry for the inconvenience this may cause. I have
searched around and have found quite many people with the same problem
as I have: how to get VPC to connect to the build-in Apache server at
localhost. But no definitive answers, as far as I can gain.

. . . Microsoft will come out with a fix for the error message
indicating that "permissions for the support files were set
correctly, but Virtual Switch failed to load."
I was directed to report this problem to Microsoft and reference the

I downloaded VPC 7.0.1 from a school Web site (MSDNAA.com) but I can't
complete the installation.  It keeps on asking for the VPC Installation
Disk but since I downloaded it on the Web, I don't have one.  I'm
running OS X 10.4.2 on a PowerBook G4.  Any ideas?

. . . Microsoft will come out with a fix for the error message
indicatin that "permissions for the support files were set correctly,
but Virtual Switch failed to load."
I was directed to report this problem to Microsoft and reference the

Using 10.4.2 Tiger installed on a 15" Powerbook with 2GB of RAM. I
installed VPC 7 with the update and have it running Windows 2000. I
have it configured using Virtual Switch networking. On the Win 2000
Virtual PC I have SQL Server installed and running. The Win2000 machine

I have lost the direction sheet for VPC7.
The install is not at all intuitive, and I am getting all kinds of
errors.
Are the directions on the Web somewhere???

help appreciated
when I trie to install virtual pc 7, I get:
Installer stopped unexpected
so I'm stuck...

Windows XP Pro installation gets past the product key entry and usually
past installing network components. When it's in the phase of copying
files, with about 26 to 29 minutes left in installation, it just
freezes.  The bright spinning beach ball appears and stays

Perhaps someone could help. I have been running Frontpage on a dell and
posting to a web throught extension (HTTP). It works fine. Now I use a
Mac with VPC and frontpage 2003 and it will not connect to the HTTP.
Any ideas?

I assume it's not possible to back up data on drive C to a CD. I
enabled my zip drive but it doesn't show under my computer. Can I
access the zip drive and drag data to the zip on the PC side?

I'm running Windows XP (fully updated SP2) on a 1.42 GHz iBook G4 w/ 1
GB of DDR RAM. With all of VPC setting maxed out and with no
applications running and networking turned off I still am only able to
emulate a 298 mHz processor. What's the deal. I purchased this to run

Running Windows XP Pro in Virtual PC 7.0.1.  My Mac hung up and I had to
restart by powering off and back on.  When I launshed VPC and WXP, I get a
black screen with the following message:
NTLDR: Fatal error 2592

I'm trying to use my VPC setup when Im on the train or bus.  What I
need is to be able to access my VPC via network when not connected.  I
know that there is a way to do this when the host is a Windows box by
creating a loopback adaptor on the Windows box.  But how do I do this

Have fought to install Fedora 4 on VPC 7 and 2004.  Managed to get it to
work, finally, on 2004 but for the mac it will abort on startup and simply
ask to restart and on and on forever.  Is there a trick someone has used to
get it to function that doesn't require "deep magic"?

Why can't I install the newest nVidia drivers for my GeForce 6800 GT?
It says it doesn't find any cards
G5 2.5
VPC 7.0.2