[G4] VPC on Jaguar

Ben Abner bmabner at mac.com
Thu Jan 1 11:14:07 PST 2004


Have you installed the updated VPC Additions for 6.1. A couple of your
issues lead me to believe that maybe that hasn't been done. Click on the
puzzle piece at the bottom of the VPC window and select install additions. I
hope this helps! Ben.

On 1/1/04 2:07 PM, "Lavode" <lavode at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am running Virtual PC 6.1 (Windows 98) on a Yikes running Jaguar.  I
> have noticed some pretty major differences between this version and the
> Connectix VPC 3 I had on my 7300.  I am wondering if there is any way
> around these, or if the MS Mac Team just broke these features:
> 
> 1.  I can't share files between OSs.  When I tell VPC to share a
> folder, it gets recognized as a Z: drive, but I can't copy any files
> off of it (windows formatted files!), it just gives me a couple error
> messages, like
> "the file does not exist" or "there was a problem."
> 
> 2.  I can't drag-and-drop files between the OSs.  This was such a cool
> feature in 3!
> 
> 3.  I can't get the video card to go higher than its default, 4mb.  I
> increase the VRAM in the Prefs panel to 8mb, but the card still shows
> up as 4mb!
> 
> TIA,
> -Lavode



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