Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / August 2005

I have a Virtual PC 5 with Windows 20000 Professional install disk.
Unfortuantely, I cannot install it, as I have lost the product key! So,
I need to buy a copy of VPC 5 or VPC 6 with either Windows 2000 Pro or
Windows XP Pro plus all the appropriate keys and S/N. OR, I will need

After finally getting Fedora Core 3 installed on VPC 7, I am lef
without the ability to get on the internet...  Argh!  Anyone hav
instructions on getting ethernet set up in FC3?  modprobe tulip doe
nothing.  Thanks in advance

Now that the federal government is moving toward online grant
applications via Grants.gov, we Mac users have to either find someone
with a Windows box (and learn how to use it) or figure out how to use
VPC and Windows on our own machines to participate.

My G5 running 10.4.2 just stalled out while running virtual PC. I was
trying to print a FedEx label online and it crashed.I had to restart
and this is the message I got.  Any clue on what this means?  How can I
fix it? Please help!

Folks,
I would love to get a full image of my Dell Latitute business PC into
VPC, just to work with ONE computer.
Does anybody know if this will work? Is Norton Ghost a good way or does

Has anybody installed Google Earth with DirectX successfully ?

Can someone guide me where to buy the Virtual PC for Mac here in India
?
I am having a compaq presario laptop which came pre-installed with XP
home edition. Can i use this licence with my apple Virtual Pc software.

I am running VPC 7.0.2 and Mac OSX 10.4.2. I loaded Mobile Phone Tools
(3.2.3)
into Virtual PC.
When the install process asks to plug the usb cable (with the phone on

When I COPY text in my VPC session, I can not PASTE it in any OSX edit
field. Do I need to set a setting somewhere or is this not possible?

Hello VPC Members
I have just installed VPC and then the 7.0.2 update. The Windows XP is
running fine on my PowerMAC G5. But I don't really need Windows XP. It
draws down too many resources. The features - for Windows users - that

When I open Virtual PC from a non-administrator user account, it tells
me that I need to log in as an administrator to finish installation and
will not let me use the program. If I log in as an administrator, I can
use it with no problems, but still cannot use it as another user.

I'm running VPC 7 on a G5 Desktop, with 4 GB of RAM, yet the speed of
the emulation so slow that it is almost unusable. I've gone into the
Windows XP settings, and selected everything to maximize performance,
limited start-up services, etc. but to no avail.

I'm running VPC 7 on a G5 Desktop, with 4 GB of RAM, yet the speed of
the emulation so slow that it is almost unusable. I've gone into the
Windows XP settings, and selected everything to maximize performance,
limited start-up services, etc. but to no avail.

For the record I just had my first OS X (10.4.2) crash that was
apparently due to VPC7.0.2 - see other reports of crashes on this newsgroup.
VPC was working fine yesterday. Today I could not connect to the
internet (ironically to check out the latest MS security update!). I

My employer uses .NET as a database management program and I'm
attempting to load it onto my powerbook in Virtual PC7.  Whenever I try
and load it I get an error message before the install can start.
I'm running OSX 10.3.9 on a powerbook 133 ghz with 1.25 gig of ram