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Microsoft Virtual PC 7.0

Virtual PC for Mac lets you run Microsoft Windows applications, access Windows networks, use Windows-only Internet applications, and share files with Windows-based colleagues. Virtual PC for Mac employs standard Mac controls and commands. It gives you the flexibility to work across platforms--side by side--without changing your Mac OS, software or files. Say goodbye to compatibility issues. Virtual PC for Mac lets you have the best of both worlds.

This is the full .DMG of Virtual PC 7.0.2 for Mac OS X (first download link). It will not run under Mac OS 9, but Mac OS X only. This allows you to run Windows, Linux and any other virtual machine on a PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor. Please note this program is now considered abandonware because Microsoft no longer supports the product. The last update for this program was released in September of 2007, which is version 7.0.3 (provided in the second download link). Microsoft is no longer selling the product because of Apples switch to Intel. There is no license required. You need to burn the .DMG file to a CD to install it. You can't just mount and install it will ask you to insert a CD.

Tips:

1. For Linux guests, use vga=<mode> to set the guests screen resolution.

Known issues:

1. Leopard users will want to modify VirtualPCNetworking1040.kext, to prevent it from appearing in the dock.
2. Under Windows XP guests, Internet Explorer 8 does not display rendered pages correctly, instead just a white page is shown. Enabling compatibility updates may fix this problem.
3. If under a Linux guest the (wheel) mouse is not detected correctly (kernels 2.6 and newer), use the kernel parameters i8042.noloop and psmouse.proto=imps to correct wrong AUX port (/dev/psaux) detection.
4. Linux kernel versions from 3.4.3 (17 June 2012) onward mistook the emulated IDE controller for the one included in Hyper-V and ignored the hard disk drive. This was corrected with a fix (18 September 2012) which went into kernels 3.8 (released 18 February 2013) and 3.4.36 (released 14 March 2013) and newer. However, Linux as a guest system can still be used with affected kernels by adding the kernel parameter ata_piix.prefer_ms_hyperv=0

Other Virtual PC versions: 1.0b6 and 1.0fc2 2.0 and 2.1.3, 3.0 upgrade & 3.0.3, 4.0, 5.0 and 5.0.4, and 6.0.

Compatibility
Architecture: PPC

Bare Minimum Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or Higher (if you have a PowerPC G5 processor the Software will require Mac OS X 10.3 or higher)
32 Bit
8 MB of VRAM
512 MB of RAM
PowerPC G3 (400 MHz or higher), G4, G5.

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