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.
Version 4.0 requires Mac OS 8.5 or higher, and a Power Mac G3 or G4 processor. It was available with PC-DOS 2000, Windows 98 (Second Edition) and Windows Me guest operating systems. Includes a new virtual disk format that can dynamically grow up to 127 GB.
The last mac update was 4.0.2.
4.0 is also the first to have a Windows version. The Windows version requires Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 SP6, or Windows 2000 Professional as host.
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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Connectix Virtual PC 4.0 [Mac] | 4.0 for Mac | English | 18.87MB | 0 | |
Connectix Virtual PC 4.0 [Upgrade] [Mac] | 4.0 for Mac Upgrade | English | 13.04MB | 0 | |
Connectix Virtual PC 4.1 for Windows | 4.1 for Windows | English | 13.49MB | 4 | |
Connectix Virtual PC 4.3.2 for OS2 | 4.3.2 for OS2 | English | 7.21MB | 1 |