Re: Will Virtual PC run in Leopard?

Unfortunately, VPC for Mac requires a PPC, not Intel, Mac. Since it does not run even under Rosetta there is no possibility of running it on a MacBook Pro. Of course Leopard includes the Boot Camp 2.0 software necessary for running Windows natively on your MacBook Pro (I use XP Pro on my MacBook Pro that way) but you would have to buy a retail version of Windows (full edition, no upgrade edition) to take advantage of it. The version of Windows that came bundled with VPC for Mac cannot be installed using Boot Camp.

"Mary Mac" <Mary Mac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:014CD339-2B8A-42DF-99D9-299D09F5C9F4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just go a new MacBook Pro laptop with Leopard; I loaded VPC and it will not
launch. I wish I would have checked this discussion group before I bought VPC
back last fall. What a crock! There was a deal for Windows with the MacBook
Pro that I did not take because I though I already had a working windows
emulation.

I don't suppose there is any chance of any special offers from MS for an
alternative that works if they are not going to do any kind of updates for
VPC. This situation really blows!

"Mac G" wrote:

In article <barmar-E7FF3D.00000824102007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There's a difference between working on new
> features and fixing bugs and making minor compatibility changes.
> Obviously, porting VPC to Intel Macs would have been a major project,
> and it's understandable why they didn't bother (especially since > there's
> heavy competition in that market: Boot Camp, Parallels, and CrossOver).
> But supporting a new OS X release on PPC Macs shouldn't be as much > work,
> and we don't have any other alternative.
I doubt M$ would do much to modify VPC for Leopard. There's no payoff
in it for them.
Lets wait and see if VPC works, only a week or so to hear user comments.


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