- #WINDOWS VIRTUAL PC FOR MAC HOW TO#
- #WINDOWS VIRTUAL PC FOR MAC INSTALL#
- #WINDOWS VIRTUAL PC FOR MAC DRIVER#
PLEASE don't ask me any questions about how you can get a copy of these files without Windows XP. you should be good to go! ( you may need to reboot ).
#WINDOWS VIRTUAL PC FOR MAC DRIVER#
#WINDOWS VIRTUAL PC FOR MAC INSTALL#
login and install the Virtual Machine Additions ( and reboot ).Install Vista public beta via the methods previously described in this thread.
#WINDOWS VIRTUAL PC FOR MAC HOW TO#
OK here's how to get the virtual ethernet device to work with the Vista Public Beta under Virtual PC for OS X 7.0.2
If you thought XP was slow under Virtual PC, you're in for new vistas of slowness. Expect your Mac to drop to its knees and beg for mercy once you start running Vista. It took about two and half hours to finish the installation, but everything seems to run, though obviously, you don't get the full Aero effects. There's not a whole lot you can do here, but one of the things you can do is set 'ACPI Aware OS' to 'Yes.' Exit and save changes. If you hit it at the right time, though, you'll get into the BIOS setup screen. I tap it several times just to make sure I get it at the right moment, and it takes a bit of timing. It turns out you can! When the virtual machine is just starting up, hit the Delete key. Maybe I could get into the setup and change the setting. Later in the afternoon, the thought occurred to me that if it was a BIOS problem, surely VPC used a BIOS.
I gave a sigh and an oh, well, and went back to work. Then it choked on me saying that my BIOS was not ACPI compliant. I tried it, then did Capture disk from Virtual PC, and voila, it booted from the image and began copying files. I didn't really want to burn a DVD, so I thought I'd try using Toast to mount the image, since Toast does a good job of making OS X think you've popped a real disk in the drive. I then learned that VPC doesn't recognize DVD images greater than 2.2 GB. I started it up and dropped the DVD ISO on the CD/DVD icon.
So, with more anticipation than I'd like to admit in public, I downloaded the DVD ISO, fired up VPC and created a new machine with 512 MB of RAM. I also admit that I was curious to see just how it would perform and just how much MS ripped off from OS X. Being a glutton for punishment, I thought I'd download the Public Beta of Windows Vista and install it in Virtual PC 7 on my G5 iMac.