Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / February 2007

VPC 7.0.0 tell me that the "beta.dmg" file is out of date or sth like
that,i downloaded even the version 7.0.2 but it still doesn't start
and quits .
i've read that version 7 is not compatibale for intel inside ones,waht

Whenever I connect my sidewinder joystick to my mac, trying to use it
in Virtual PC 7, I go into the usb settings and tell it to use it.  I
click OK, but when I go back in, it's unchecked.  Is there any way to
connect a usb joystick through Virtual PC?  If so, how?

I can't install VPC 2004 on media center. It apears a error "Error 1305 -
can't read the file microsoft virtual pc 2004 msdn.msi". The file is there. I
have downloaded the instalation files from microsoft download site.
Any suggestions??

I picked up a copy of Parallels with the intention of using my VPC XP
install with it (my VPC software has been retired for years).  I've
torn through 100 boxes and I can't find my disks or licenses -- but I
did find a DVD with a backup of my .vpc6 drive image from when I was

Do we have to wait another 10 years for ms access for mac?  This should have
always been a part of the office suite for mac.  Who friggin' cares about
entourage?  Some forward thinkers you are.  FYI: Making us buy unneccessary
win emulators/intel macs blows goats.

I have some questions concerning the use of 3ds Max on Mac, maybe you
guys could give me some help.
Here is the deal.. In my office, we received a budget to improve our
equipment and start running 3d Max. The coices are a G5 Pro or a very

I upgraded to VPC 7.0.2 from 6.1.1 about a year ago.  I kept running
Win98 at the time and everything worked fine.  Several months ago, I
upgraded from Win98 SE to Windows XP Pro and now my shared folders
don't work and I can't drag & drop files.  I unistall and reinstall

I haven't even gotten the product yet, just sent off for it.  But It
would be nice to know if you are able to parttion the hard drive space
needed for XP on a external drive.  One; is this even possible?  And
if So, how would I go about doing that?

I'm thinking of buying virtual pc for mac. I have an non intel imac g5 and
have tried other emulators before but fell asleep waiting for the programs
to load as it was so slow.
I would be very obliged if anyone could advise if this is a good program and

I installed VPC 7.0 then upgraded to 7.02
I have an eMac running 10.4.3
my problem is when I install VPC , windows xp installs but there is NO
START button.  I can't do anything ?

hi, all.
i downloaded vpc7.01 from my college MSDN site - the cd is not
available.  it was a zip file and it seemed to unzip ok, but the
installation is bad.  i get "authorization failure, please contact

Because of lack of space on my hard disk I deleted this program. Now I
have an external hard disk so  I have room for virtual pc on my emac's
hard disk. Problem: The computer gives me this message when I tried to
reinstall it:

I'm using VirtualPC 7.0.2 and Windows XP on a G5 iMac with OS X
10.4.8.
Recently I have been unable to open some of the Windows Applications
(sorry, "programs") and get an onscreen message reading:

When I try to install Virtual PC on my G5, non-Intel, it says I have to
be logged in with an administrators account.  I am the only
administrator!! I go to accounts and yup, only me as admin.  I have one
other user and it just says standard for them but Admin for me.  What

Hi all. I seem to have botched my XP login screen by messing with
admin status options. Now when I start my XP machine in VPC and I get
to the login screen, there's no username at all on the right side of
the dividing line, just blank space. I had previously just been using