Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / August 2005

I can't get an internet connection within VPC.  I believe I have all
the settings correct, I've read every thread I could find on the
subject, tried every trick recommended.  Don't know what's wrong.  I'm
hoping starting a new thread may shed some light.  I could list all my

I upgraded from VPC 6 with Windows 2000 installed separately by me to
VPC 7.02 ( ( bought the Upgrade from Apple and I had my own Windows
2000. ) VPC 7.02 works fine with Windows 2000. Now I want to install my
own copy of Windows XP Professional. This Windows XP disk boots fine on

I have a saved state and now it wont shut down or restore. I get the
message " the PC could not be restored because one of the hard disk
images has been modified since the PC was saved" when I try to retore
the state

I have just installed VPC v 7.0.1 with XP pro (no service pack) on my
ibook
rumming OSX 10.3.9. All is ok until I attempt to contact the internet
from

Has anyone tried using Virtual PC with Dragon Naturally Speaking V7?
Alternately with the Sony Digital Voice Editor?  I recently bought a
Sony digital voice recorder and would like to be able to transcribe
the voice files on my G4 Powerbook, of if that is not possible at

I work with a Mac in a Microsoft environment.  To access the network I
need to use DAVE to get through the authorization using CIFS
connections.  DAVE is not yet compatible with Tiger so I'm still using
Panther.  I've just upgraded my Virtual PC to 7.0.2 and now I can no

I am running Virtural PC 6 (Windows XP) on My Powerbook G4. It just
crashed on me so I shut down VPC (turned off) and restarted my G4. I
then restarted Virtual PC but all I am getting is a command prompt
displaying NTLDR is missing - it won't progress any further. If someone

I'm having trouble mapping a shared folder between my laptop on my LAN
running the latest version of Windows XP and my VPC machine on my Mac
running VPC 7.02, Tiger, and the latest version of Windows XP.  I'm trying
to share a folder on my PC and map it to a networked drive on VPC.  ...

I just installed VPC 7 with update 7.0.2 and XP Professional on my
iBook G4 (1 GHz and 640 MB of RAM, Mac OS 10.4.2), Windows is little
bit slow but acceptable, only the Windows Media Player is terribly
slow, less than 2 frames per second instead of the standard 24 and even

I am having alot of problems trying to change the default location of
where Virtual PC 7 looks for it's image.
By default it looks at
/Users/"username"/Documents/Virtual PC List/

When I try to start Virtual PC from a saved state I get the message "THe PC
could not be restored because one of the hard disk images has been modified
since the PC was saved"
I can't do anything - shut it down or delete it without deleting the HD image

I have PowerMac G5 running VPC 7.0.2+XP. Everything works fine except it
won't install updates using windows update. Keeps on generating "windows
error code 0x80070057"
I have same setup on Powerbook which works fine.

There seems to be a huge data 'bottleneck' with my Win2K Pro Virtual Machine
under VPC 7.0.2 on a 1.67 MHz MAC Powerbook when communicating with a remote
NT server via Cisco VPN Client over Roadrunner.
Data throughput crawls at 1.5K Tx-Rx.  It takes 60-90 seconds to make any

For a long time, I've had oddball problems with VPC, such as:
Installing an app using in Windows nearly always caused a message about some
exe file crashing just as the installation started. The app would end up
installed correctly, however. It happened nearly always when the the ...

I installed Vista via VPC and thought I'd send my observations:
My equipment:
PowerMac G5 dual 2.5ghz w/1.5GB RAM
VPC 7.02