[stu_1992]

[FONT=Verdana]Hi can someone please tell me how to work virtual pc ? It wont start-up it just says no OS found, what do I do? If you dont want to reply then email me what to do.[/FONT]

[budster101]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir...t/default.mspx

[PurpleGiant]

Maybe you forgot to also download a copy of Windows

[Maflynn]

You need to describe your installation steps you undertook, what flavor of VPC you have.

Mike

[Mediaman_12]

You should have got an 'OS pack' with VPC, which is a Virtual HD, containing a pre-installed version of Windows. If you plan on using a regular Windows XP installer CD to install the OS on to the 'PC', be warned it's very slow and always takes hours, even on a fast Mac.

[osxrules]

Yeah, you need an OS from somewhere. I still use VPC6 because VPC7 took ages to boot my old drive image.

I would recommend getting Windows 98. It supports USB and seems to be pretty stable for me.

I actually installed a Windows XP pro disc and it took abut an hour or so to install. No more than I expect from an OS installation really. It ran pretty slow though, so I just got Windows 98 as it also uses less drive space. You can get a copy on ebay really cheap or maybe from a local PC store.

Once you set up an image, just compress and backup the file onto disc and future installations are a breeze.

[Randman]

Yep, make sure you didn't get an upgrade version which doesn't contain a copy of Windows.

[gradient]

Originally Posted by osxrules

Yeah, you need an OS from somewhere. I still use VPC6 because VPC7 took ages to boot my old drive image.

I would recommend getting Windows 98. It supports USB and seems to be pretty stable for me.

I actually installed a Windows XP pro disc and it took abut an hour or so to install. No more than I expect from an OS installation really. It ran pretty slow though, so I just got Windows 98 as it also uses less drive space. You can get a copy on ebay really cheap or maybe from a local PC store.

Once you set up an image, just compress and backup the file onto disc and future installations are a breeze.

Honestly, I'd recommend going with Windoze 2000 with Service Pack 4 - it'll run quicker then Windows XP and is supported by far more current software then Win98. It installed quick on my iBook G4 1.33 (maybe took half an hour total including all the software updates) and as a speed comparison I'd say it runs about as quick as it would on an old PIII 500 mhz - not very fast at all but manageable for most basic apps.

As far as specific instructions for the original post, setting up your OS is pretty simple if you're doing it from a regular Windoze install disk - just pop in the disk, press apple-L to open "Virtual PC List", select "New" and follow the wizard!

[graffix]

I'll agree with gradient and suggest sticking with a 32-bit Windows OS... Connectix (before MS bought them out) stated that the 32-bit OS's will run better under VPC on OSX, due to how the emulation is handled... the 16-bit OS's (such as Win98, Win95 and WinME) will actually run slower than 2000, NT and XP. It's exactly the opposite if you run VPC under OS9.x

I run VPC with XP SP2 on my dual 1.25GHz G4 and it runs great. I suggest you have gobs of RAM at your disposal, and allocate a full 512MB to VPC for best performance.

Good luck.