Semi-OT: Virtual PC 7 on Mac OS X

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Thu Oct 21 14:01:47 CDT 2004


> >Obviously only Win98 and WinXP support the cooler features such as 
> >mapping folders on the Mac as network drives, and printing to the Mac 
> >printer.
> 
> I'm sure I've mapped DOS in VPC to both shared folders and printers. 
> Although this would have been with much older versions of VPC (v1, 2 or 
> 3). I do know for sure that I have run WIn95 with both.
> 
> But who knows, this is now MS VPC, so I'm sure they made any features 
> that might be useful work exclusively with whatever version of Windows 
> they want to make you use.

I believe you have to have the VPC extensions for the OS, and that MS-DOS
isn't a supported OS under VPC7.  I bypass this by having a virtual D: Drive
for DOS and Win98, and booting the Win98 system when I need to copy files
from the Mac to DOS.  I could do it under WinXP, but that would interrupt
what I have running there, and it takes a lot longer for XP to boot (or
shutdown).

			Zane



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