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Older versions of Virtual PC for Macintosh can run on Mac OS 9.2.2 or earlier.Older operating systems are supported with Virtual Machine additions.A Virtual Switch available in Virtual PC version 4.1 or earlier allows adding multiple network adapters.Newer versions must partition and format the Virtual Hard Disk file manually. Older versions of Virtual PC (v5.0 or earlier) may have the hard disk formatted after creating the Virtual Hard Disk file.To run Virtual PC 5 in Mac OS X, a 400В MHz or faster processor is required.Д®arlier versions of Virtual PC supported the following features: (now removed in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, 2007, and Windows Virtual PC):

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For USB support, Mac OS X is recommended. Virtual PC 5 requires Mac OS 9.1 or newer or Mac OS X 10.1 or later. Virtual PC 4 was the first version with expandable drive images.

Virtual PC 4 requires Mac OS 8.5 or later on a G3 or G4 processor, but running Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux requires Mac OS 9.0 or later. As virtualization's importance to enterprise users became clear, Microsoft took interest in the sector and acquired Virtual PC and Virtual Server (unreleased at the time) from Connectix in February 2003. Connectix sold versions of Virtual PC bundled with a variety of guest operating systems, including Windows, OS/2, and Red Hat Linux. The first version of Virtual PC designed for Windows-based systems, version 4.0, was released in June 2001. Virtual PC was originally developed as a Macintosh application for System 7.5 and released by Connectix in June 1997. Д¬onnectix Virtual PC version 3 in Mac OS 9, running a Brazilian Portuguese edition of Windows 95

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Other operating systems such as Linux may run, but Microsoft does not provide support, or drivers (known as 'Virtual Machine Additions') for these operating systems.

Supported Windows operating systems can run inside Virtual PC. Virtual PC virtualizes a standard IBM PC compatible device and its associated hardware.

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Windows Virtual PC is not supported on Windows 8 or Windows 10, and has been superseded by Hyper-V. The older versions, which support a wider range of host and guest operating systems, remain available.

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The newest release, Windows Virtual PC, does not run on versions of Windows earlier than Windows 7, and does not officially support MS-DOS or operating systems earlier than Windows XP Professional SP3 as guests.

In August 2006, Microsoft announced the Macintosh version would not be ported to Intel-based Macintosh computers, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macintosh computers would no longer be manufactured. In July 2006, Microsoft released the Windows version free of charge. Windows Virtual PC (successor to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, and Connectix Virtual PC) was a virtualization program for Microsoft Windows. com /en-us /help /958559 /description-of-windows-virtual-pc As I told a relative when he started running Tiger on his G4: 'There's next to no sunlight between the two./ FebruaryВ 14, 2011 10 years ago ( ) And in terms of just out-of-the-box networking between Macs & PCs, the vanilla user version of Tiger practically eliminated any coughs, chokes and hangups between Apple's SMB protocol and Microsoft's. I have done a little with Apple's X11 distribution - of which on this Forum you'll find scads of discussion and info - in OS X, and I agree it does make up the difference between the two ( or is it three now ? ) platforms. Virtual machine imaging Mac OS X has its own legal issues: the only 'Ten Version' as I like to phrase it where Apple's lawyers would be inclined to look the other way if someone virtualised it is (drum roll please) OS X 10.4 Tiger server. Those that exist for the direction you're choosing, even the commercial ones, have their own issues and are generally considered not worth the time money or effort. Operating system emulators tend to favor going the other way - Mac to Windows. As a long time Mac user (work and home, classic and OS X), I agree with pludi.