Virtual PC 1.x (Mac)

Virtual PC started off originally as an x86 emulator for PowerPC Macintosh to run MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Connectix, the company that made it, was purchased by Microsoft. Virtual PC was then retooled into a virtualization tool for x86 systems. Microsoft discontinued Virtual PC in favor of a server-oriented virtualization product called Hyper-V.

On the desktop, Virtual PC competed with VMWare and featured better compatibility with a wider array of guest operating system.



Release notes

Virtual PC 1.0 emulates a PC with an Intel Pentium CPU (including protected mode , MMU , FPU and MMX) motherboard with Intel Triton chipset, two IDE channels, an ATAPI CD-ROM drive, S3 928 PCI SVGA graphics card with 1 or 2 MB VRAM, PCI Ethernet expansion card with DEC 21041 chip, Sound Blaster Pro, PC keyboard, and PS/2 mouse.

Installation instructions

Virtual PC 1.0 requires Mac OS 7.5.5 and a PowerPC processor. It was sold with either a pre-configured (pre-installed) Windows 3.11 (MS-DOS) or with Windows 95 and later also with PC-DOS. In addition Virtual PC 1.0 officially supported Windows NT, OS/2 and OPENSTEP as guest operating systems.

Product type
Application Virtualization
Vendor
Connectix
Release date
1996
Minimum CPU
PPC
User interface
GUI
Platform
MacOS
Download count
8 (3 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Connectix Virtual PC 1.01 (Windows 95 Edition) (1997) (ISO) 1.01 English 99.75MB 3
Connectix Virtual PC 1.0fc2 (Windows 95 Edition) 1.0fc2 English 90.2MB 0

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