Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / September 2005

I have followed the comments related to this problem, and I have tried
the suggested workarounds, and they don't work. Months have gone by and
I haven't seen a fixed from Microsoft. Help!!!!!!

Has anyone got FreeBSD 5.4 to run? I'm trying to load it into Virtual
PC 7.0.2, but it freezes at this line:
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0

I just got through installing Windows vista beta and the graphics are
horrible.  It give me only 4 colors and 800x600 viewing and it sucks.
I tried installing additions but that made it worse.  anyone know what
kind of drivers i could use to get better graphics, like maybe the

I just got through installing Windows vista beta and the graphics are
horrible.  It give me only 4 colors and 800x600 viewing and it sucks.
I tried installing additions but that made it worse.  anyone know what
kind of drivers i could use to get better graphics, like maybe the

Anybody know off the top of their heads how I get it back?  The
"regular" VPC7 icon is easy to find, but I want the icon with "Start"
in it so I can launch Windows applications directly.  Thanks.

Using Virtual PC 7.0.2 I created a virtual hard disk image, 5gb in
size.  As expected my Mac's available HD space dropped by 5gb.
I was unable to find a way in VPC to delete the virtual hard disk
image, so I dragged it to the Mac's trash and deleted it.  (And it's no

VPC 7.0.2
Mac OS 10.4.2
PowerBook G4 1.67 Ghz
2 GB RAM

I have MSDN Universal subscription and I can't find the PID (product id)
for installing Virtual Pc on my Mac. I have an iMac G5 and am installing
VPC  7.
I've looked on the CD, in my MSDN box, on the subscriptions website, but

i have a problem with both MS office 97 and 2003. The software shows in the
Control Panel, however, does not appear in the Programs listing. Also, no
icons appear. When trying to launch 97 WORD, the active bar would show WORD,
however, the program did not show loaded. Looks like ...

I'm interested in using my dual G5 2GHz as an additional processor for
Sony Vegas running on my PC. The function is available in Vegas and
Vegas must be installed on both computers. I'm assuming Vegas will run
in VPC without problems. Do you think Vegas on my Windows machine will

When installing Win XP Professional that came with VPC 7.0, the virtual
disk created, by default, has a size of 15gb.
Is there any way to create a virtual machine with my Win XP software
that is less than 15 gb (I'm trying for 5gb).

Spec: G4 12" powerbook, 10.4.2, XP Pro, VPC7.
Having done a fresh intall of VPC7 and then my own copy of xp pro, the
VPC doc is 1.46GB which i am happy with.  Problem is when i convert to
fixed size it ends up at 15GB!  Too large for my powerbook.  Am i

I am not really a PC user and don't really follow the PC market.
Can anyone recommend a good AntiVirus package for PC that will work under
VPC please?
Cheers.

I'd like to use my Motorola Razor to connect to the internet on my Powerbook
using BT.  Cingular has given me the settings to configure the settings on
the Powerbook and Bluetooth but I get an error message "a modem error
occurred.  Please verify your settings and try again".  Are ...

My apologies if this is a very basic question.  I am looking ahead to a
time when I want to buy an Apple laptop, but looking at the Office
Suite for Mac, I see that it doesn't include Access.  The product
information page for Virtual PC doesn't seem to divulge any information