Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / July 2006

I don't know how or if this affects / will affect the Mac version, but
it's from the MSDN Blogs, and includes a brief bit about Virtual PC
2007 (Windows computer version) ...
   Good News Everyone: VPC and licensing goodness ensue!

When Windows finally starts up, which seems to take forever, there is
no Start menu on the bottom, so I can't do anything.
Also, when I download a PC program, I can't open it in Windows to
install it.

Internet Explorer 7 beta 3 crashes upon opening on my G4 running Virtual
PC 6. There is no error message.   I had no trouble with beta 2.  I
don't know enough about Windows systems to start looking for a solution
by myself.  Could someone point me in the right direction?

How can this be?
My Windows 2000 pro PC is connected to the internet (Local Area
Connection 2 Status icon shows "Connected" with a speed of 10.0 Mbps,
whether I use Shared Networking or Virtual Switch). However, my

How can I get this to show up as a serial device under com 1 or 2 in
Virtual PC 6 ? I'm using OS X 10.4.6. It shows up as a USB device under
settings but I just can't get it to show up as a selection of the mac
serial port under com 1 or 2 ??   would love to get this working. can

Sometimes I automatically hit "Select-All" (or, rather, Command-A) and,
rather than sending a Windows-equivalent command, the VPC window is
selected--i.e., ant tracks around the edge. There doesn't seem to be an
obvious way to undo this. Is there a way?

Gentleones,
I'm encountering an error while running one of those dastardly IE-only
scripted websites (which is, unfortunately, not visible to the rest of
the world--it's AdvancedMD's billing software). One particular page

I am trying to install windows xp professional, but when i boot from
the cd and start the installation, i get an internal error immedietely
that says:
Could not find a place for a swap file

I'm running a Windows 2000 environment on Virtual PC 7 for Mac.  What I
would like to do is print to PDF from within Windows using the OS X PDF
printing capability.  The PDF file can go to the Mac or PC.
Is this possible?

I've been hearing rumors since 2004 (claiming the release to be in
early 2005) of native graphics card support being released on a future
version of VPC, yet have not heard anything since then. Did Microsoft
decide not to go through with it, or what?

Background: I have an Epson Stylus Photo 820 printer connected by USB to an
Airport Extreme base station.  My iMac is connected to the base station via
an ethernet cable.
Using Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3, I've set up the Epson printer to print from

would it be possible to use a virtual Mac on my PC to allow me access
to an old mac HDD?

Before defragmenting, my VM (VPC 7.0.2, OS 10.4.7, G4 Ti 667 1 GB) was
2.7 GB. Now it's 4.77 GB.
Would compacting the data do any good? If so, how do I do it?
Thank you,

Using OS X 10.4.7 w/Journalized HFS+ file system.  Attempting to share file
off of host desktop using DOS VM Additions.
Tried both DOS 6.22 and DOS 7.1 with same result.  
Added additions, LASTDRIVE=Z exists, EMM386 does not, shared a folder in DOS

Background
I'm running Win2000 Prof. Edn., in VPC6, in an iMac.
In the settings, I have 256 Mb of PC memory.
(By the way, could someone explain whether that's consistent with the following recent observation, please?  When I de-frag'd the disc today, it appeared that the "disc" ...