Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / May 2006

Is there a way to backup pc quicken files on cd?

Mac OSX, 10.4.5, G5 dual core.
Virtual PC seems to cause a panics under various conditions, like,
startup. Also, other odds times. Sample panic log below. Not knowing how
to read these, it only appears to be VPC. I've had around 10 of these in

I bought VPC 7.02 just to run Access, as I couldn't afford to move to intel.
I wasn't expecting much when it came to performance and knew there'd be some
lag, but the performance is worse than I anticipated. I'm running 7.02 on a
latest gen iBook G4 1.42 Ghz 512MB RAM, with XP Home.

I know this question has been asked before...........
Just thought I would let you know that I have found a solution for syncing a
WM5 PDA and VPC.
Found an application that gets loaded onto the PDA that allows you to switch

I installed Virtual PC on my ibook with Win XP and MS Access. What I was
trying to do is work with an Access DB that was on another Windows-Laptop.
When I opened the DB The Win-User could still work with it, but as soon
as I opened a Form to fill in some data the other users got ...

I have an iMax G5 Mac OS X 10.4.6 w/ Virtual PC 7.0 (040819)
For the past 4 months it has run flawlessly.
This evening, for no apparent reason, I am getting the following error
on startup:  "An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered.

I currently have VPC 7.01 installed and it works well with OS X 10.3.9.
I am about to upgrade to Tiger OS X 10.4.6.  Are there any anomalies
or "things to make sure I do" prior to this installation besides the
standard system permissions fix? And are there any quirks with VPC and

Hello. When is the next version of Virtual PC going to be availible.

I have a Griffin iMic attached to a USB port on my G4 Imac.  Works just
fine.  WhenI look in USB devices in Windows XP SP2 in Virtual PC, I see
my Laser printer, but not the iMic device.  It is alos not listed under
audio devices.  In OS 10.4.6 I have the imic USB selected as the

I bought Office 2004 Pro with a new MacBook Pro but the install of Virtual
PC failed after the first reboot, and a subsequent attempt to install
resulted in the same thing. Now I have a Virtual PC icon in my Applications
directory but the software will not launch.  Is there a fix ...

Could someone tell me how I can fast switch between open windows.  I use
Command+Tab in OS X and the equivalent on my PC at work (CTRL+TAB ?).  IS
there a way without messing with my OS X key assignments as I want to retain
the Command+Tab functionality.

Dear Sirs:
I have Garmin MapSource North America (that only works with Windows
using Virtual PC).  I would like to upload maps, waypoints etc. from my
Mac, using this program to the Garmin eTrax Vista GPS reciever.  I have

I just downloaded and installed VPC 7.0.2 update. When I start up VPC,
it says "OS Not Found; Install an OS on this hard drive"
Three times I have followed the instuctions from Virtual PC Help in the
section titled " Install the version of Windows included with Virtual

Help!
I had to uninstall the VM additions on a users' computer and I rebooted
(windows), and now I cannot get control of the windows OS to login to
re-install the VM additions (again).  The mac mouse (black) never turns into

My son just received Microsoft Train Simulator, and I was able to
install it OK (quite slow!), but it won't run. comes up with the
message: Train Simulator Requires Hardware Acceleration. So far as I
know the VPC has been set to the max for all the settings; RAM is at