Virtual PC 4.x

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

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.

Product type
Application Virtualization
Vendor
Connectix
Release date
2000
Minimum CPU
PPC G3 or G4 Mac or Pentium/Athlon PC
User interface
GUI
Platform
Windows OS2 MacOS
Download count
39 (9 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
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 9
Connectix Virtual PC 4.3.2 for OS2 4.3.2 for OS2 English 7.21MB 0

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