Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / April 2006

Today I accidentally saved the PC's state, instead of shutting it down
like I usually do.  Now, I suddenly have 300 fewer megs of space on my
hard drive.  I want to get rid of the PC's saved state, because it
takes up so much space, but I can't find it anywhere!  Can someone

I'm running VPC 6.11 with Windows XP Pro installed.
I rarely use XP to connect to the internet, so I'm not sure when this
problem surfaced that is, after which security upgrade to OS 10.3.9.
Everything seems to work perfectly, except that Internet Explorer wont

Just purchased VirtualPC for my Mac (OS 10.4.5). I already had
OfficeMac installed. I need to run a Windows OS app. using VirtualPC,
but the app. needs Excel to function. Is there any way for VirtualPC to
recognize/use my OfficeMac apps., i.e. Excel?

I just purchased VPC 7 to use on my 20" iMac (pre intel version) using
10.4.6 in order to access "Flashtalk", which is an internet based
application designed for conference calling. I can't seem to get VPC7
to recognize the audio input from either the native iMac microphone or

I have a Mac OS X desktop on which I do web development using virtual
hosts that are not in DNS. For the few machines that I want to grant
web access to, I am creating entries in the hosts file. This works
fine, except on my PowerBook (Mac OS X 10.45), where I use VPC 6.1,

Has anyone else suddenly had VPC7 start up with this error message:
Virtual PC is Unable To Play Sounds.
Virtual PC was unable to start the Macintosh audio system. A newer
version of Mac OS may fix this problem.

Has anyone been able to install SQL Server 2005 (Standard, Enterprise, or
Developer) under Virtual PC 7?
I can get most of the way through the installation, but then I get an error
that it is unable to start the SQL Server service, and the only thing I can

Is it possible to creating multi forests in virtual server.
Thanks
BL

keep on getting the message "nothing to install". please any help would be appreciated
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Petereng40
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A recent post said they are using Quickbooks pro 2006 with vpc 7.
I am using VPC 6.1.1/windows xp home and I cannot get the install
program for Quickbooks pro 2006 to run.  I get an error message that
says the program had to be interrupted.

I'm running VPC 7.0.2, on a G4 Mac, with Windows 2000.
I've been trying with great non-success to play Spades on MSN's Gaming
Zone.
In short, the downloaded software does not seem to install properly. No

Any input on these questions will be greatly appreciated.   :-)
Are there any problems with running or installing Win 98 SE in VPC
7.0.2 in Mac OS X.4.5 that we should be aware of or concerned about?
Are there issues when upgrading VPC 6.x to VPC 7.0.2 that we should be

From MacRumors.com ...
   Windows Virtualization (WinXP under Mac OS X) Beta Released
   -----------------------------------------------------------
   Parallels released their Windows virtualization solution

I have not experienced *any* problems since VPC 7.0.2 + OS X 10.4.4 with
one VM running Windows XP SP2, 256MB on a Powerbook G4/1.33 1.25Gb RAM.
First XP-SP2 BSOD:
I quit VPC and save state to upgrade to 10.4.6.

This just may signal  the end for VPC: