Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / October 2005

I have an unusual problem that occured after I did a force quit
(spinning beachball). I have PB 1.25 and have been running VPC
7.0.2/Windows 2000Professional. When I rebooted the PB everything on
the Mac side seemd to be working fine, however on of the guys on my

I am considering to buy the Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition
including the Virtual PC for Mac Version 7 and Windows XP.
I run a 600 MHz PowerPC G3, Bus speed 100 MHz, 768 MB SDRAM, Mac OS
10.2.8.

I have Virtual PC installed on my Mac IBook G4 Laptop.  I am using
Microsoft XP Professonal.  I have a motorhome with a TracVison satalite
system using Dish Nertwork programming.  I need to re-program the
satalite dish and the manufacturer KVH tells me that todo this I need

I can't get virtual pc 7.0 to recognize the built-in modem on a 15"
powerbook G4. Any solutions?
Byron Smith

Some sites, for example online chat rooms, require Java. Do I need to
install this separately? I think I read somewhere that MS doesn't
include it with Windows anymore.

I just loaded Virtual PC and everything was going great until I tried
to listen back to midi notes played from Powertab and other musical
notation programs. The notes do not play back with out major
sluggishness. I have 1.5GB of ram. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Some months ago, I've installed virtual pc 7. I installed then my own
copy of windows xp. It worked well.  In the meantime, due to a crash, I
had to reinstall virtual pc. Apparently, it does no longer recognize
the windows cd. I've followed all the instructions, but it does not

Running vpc 7 on Tiger & doing well except have never been able to
connect xp to internet using internal modem.
Win xp is intergrated with vpc as originally installed from power on
software. I need to upgrade it via sp2, but microsoft site will not

I just received my new Powerbook 15" G4 with the new higher resolution
screen and 512Mb of RAM from the factory.
Virtual PC 7.0 will not install.  I get a continuous error after trying
to install Windows from the Virtual PC image "The PC could not be

I'm using VPC 7 with XP Home SP2. I have AVG AV installed and use
Erasure successfully to zero data and then reclaim disk space.
I'm just wondering however, my VM size was 2.02 GB yesterday I accessed
the net and browsed to my .Mac sign in page which I then bookmarked and

I am using a Power Mac G5 and Virtual PC 7.02 with windows xp pro or win2000
pro. In both systems I am not succesfull to connect properly a usb-device (a
polar usb device for infrared connection with a polar "running watch"). When
showing the properties of this device in the ...

I had to reinstall Virtual PC recently and ran into a problem with my
keyboard.  The numeric keypad no longer works correctly.  I can
navigate with it but I can't get it to enter numbers.  I'm a 10key kind
of guy and its killing me to enter numbers using the standard number

In general, how common is it for a Windows application not to work
under Virtual PC? I've used an older version of a baseball stats
program for a number of years - first on Soft Windows and then for the
past few years on various versions of VPC (now up to vers 6). This app

I have found VPC 7 to be rather unstable, especially since I updated to
Mac OS 10.4.2. A few days ago I attempted to run Windows Update; the
update crashed Mac OS just before completion (with that pleasant little
white on black message "you must restart your computer").

I usually keep a backup of my Home folder on an external hard drive.
Can I keep a back up of my VM (ie: home/documents/virtual pc list) on
my external as well?
Thanks