Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / December 2005

HI group
I am running VPC 7.0.2 and Mac OS 10.4.3. For some reason I can no
longer connect to the internet through my virtual PC. I don't run VPC
all that often, so I am not sure when the problem started--perhaps with

I'm a VPC user since VPC6, and have upgraded to VPC7.  Without
reinstalling VPC6 - Is there a way to use my VPC6 OS disk to reinstall
my WinXPH in VPC7?  I'm wanting to "start fresh" as I've had a vew
viruses, spyware, etc... and I'm hoping to avoid the VPC6 to VPC7

All the fears of viruses & spyware cause me to shutdown VPC when I'm
not actually using it.  I do have VirusScan, MS AntiSpyware, Ad-Aware
and Spybot all installed.  (I'm hooked on "Call for Help" on G4 TechTV)
and have learned about all this stuff.  In fact, they say the best way

I have a G5 running Virtual PC 7.0. When I go to Start Up the only
Virtual PC I have on there, I get an error message:"The PC culd not be
restored because one of the hard disk images has been modified since
the PC was saved." I can see the WIndows desk top and it says saved on

I have an original powerbook running os 10.3.9 and also running vpc7
for a couple of programs I need.
The machine has the original invidia ge force4 mx card with 64mb ram
onboard.

Recently upgraded my old Mac G3 to new iMac G5 with OS 10.4.3 and
purchased VPC 7.  Have installed Win 98se into VPC and loaded Totally
MAD C/D viewing program.
When I try to run the program it correctly asks me to insert a CD but

Two related questions:
1) Will the existing VirtualPC 7.x work well with Intel Macs?
2) Will there be a version of VirtualPC that will essentially run
Windows-in-a-Mac-window but NATIVELY (i.e. without the Intel emulation,

I'm running a legacy DOS spreadsheet "CA Supercalc" on my windows 98 PC
with no problems. I would like to switch it to VPC 7 with XP on my Dual
G5 Powermac. On the PC the pif setting include XMS and EMS at 1024 and
all runs well with loads of memory. On the VPC if I change either or

Dear group members:
I have recently experienced a few issues while trying to install software in
Virtual PC.
The software I've tried to install are Norton AntiVirus 2004 and Dorland's

I went out and bought Virtual PC today on the advice of the guy in the
shop because my accountant runs sage on her PC but i am unable to view
any of the files she processes because our office runs all MACS. he
reckons it would do teh business. So buy the latest version of Virtual

I have lost my "product key" for the Windows XP Home that came with my
copy of VirtualPC. It's impossible to contact Microsoft without the
code. How can I solve this problem?

Hey there:
Anybody heard yet whether there will be any improvements to VirtualPC
performance when Apple makes the switch to Intel chips in the upcoming
years? It seems to me that with the switch to Intel the underlying