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    Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

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    by xink[o] ·

    I run a Mac OS 10.2 and i’ve fully completed downloading Virtual PC. When I try to start it up, it loads and says that the image is a read only because something is locked. What is locked and how do I unlock it?

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    • #3232712

      Reply To: Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

      by jaqui ·

      In reply to Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

      you will have to login as system admin and do default config before being able to use it.
      it may even be owned by root, so you would need to go system admin then root to setup the config.

    • #3234845

      Reply To: Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

      by lyon_bleu ·

      In reply to Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

      1) The image file that contains the virtual disk drive could have
      the Finder “lock” flag set. To unlock it,select the file icon and use
      the “Get Info” command, either from the “File” menu or with the
      keystroke “cmd-I”, and then uncheck the box in the topmost
      panel that reads “Locked”.

      While you have this info window open, take note of the owner
      and permissions listed in the “Owners & Permissions…” panel;
      your short name should be listed as owner and you should have
      read-write permissions.

      2) In the course of an installation, many installer scripts run
      rough-shod over the file permissions and ownership. Launch
      “Disk Utility” and run the “Repair Permissions” on the boot
      volume to see if that clears this up.

      3) For some reason the image itself may have been corrupted or
      mistakenly saved as r/o (read only). You can attempt to Use
      “Disk Utility” to convert the image to r/w, but this might not be
      satisfactory–IIRC, VPC 7 only uses a specific file format for the
      image files and no longer accepts the *.dmg or *.img that DU
      creates, even if they are properly initialized as FAT32 or NTFS. In
      this case you may need to create a new image file from the disk
      utility within VPC itself and install the OS and apps from scratch.
      (The application extensions that facilitate the use of Mac
      printing, networking, USB, etc. are bundled in the application
      package; you don’t have to search for them and you shall be
      prompted to update them the first time you boot up your virtual
      disk.) This is not the worst thing to happen, and frankly I prefer
      it to the OS packs that MS distributes.

      HTH,

      paul

      • #3234842

        Reply To: Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

        by lyon_bleu ·

        In reply to Reply To: Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

        4) (which probably should have been #1) Is this image file
        encrypted? Was there a password for the online purchase?

        Peace,

        paul

      • #3234838

        Reply To: Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

        by lyon_bleu ·

        In reply to Reply To: Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

        Yet another detail…

        The image file itself shall have the file extension “vhd”. However,
        since VPC 6, that file now resides inside a “package” with the
        extension “vhdp” (how creative 🙂 ) To get at the file in Finder,
        you will need to ctl-click (right-click if you have a multi-button
        mouse) on the vhdp package and select “Show package
        contents” from the contextual menu. Continue to open folders
        until you see the desired file.

        p

    • #3340534

      Reply To: Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

      by xink[o] ·

      In reply to Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

      Sadly, I just figured out that my dad (the one who got me VPC) downloaded it and didn’t buy it, so alot of the tips didn’t help.

    • #3216322

      It is a waste of time

      by cewallace ·

      In reply to Help me with Virtual PC on Mac!

      Unless you have a real need to run Virtual PC forget about it.
      I have installed it on my Powerbook G4 along with WinXP
      and it does run but is painfully slow and really not worth the
      effort.

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