To run Virtual PC 5 in Mac OS X, a 400 MHz or faster processor is required.Įarlier versions of Virtual PC supported the following features: (now removed in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, 2007, and Windows Virtual PC): For USB support, Mac OS X is recommended. Virtual PC 5 requires Mac OS 9.1 or newer or Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
Virtual PC 4 was the first version with expandable drive images. Virtual PC 4 requires Mac OS 8.5 or later on a G3 or G4 processor, but running Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux requires Mac OS 9.0 or later. As virtualization's importance to enterprise users became clear, Microsoft took interest in the sector and acquired Virtual PC and Virtual Server (unreleased at the time) from Connectix in February 2003.
Connectix sold versions of Virtual PC bundled with a variety of guest operating systems, including Windows, OS/2, and Red Hat Linux. The first version of Virtual PC designed for Windows-based systems, version 4.0, was released in June 2001. Virtual PC was originally developed as a Macintosh application for System 7.5 and released by Connectix in June 1997. Ĭonnectix Virtual PC version 3 in Mac OS 9, running a Brazilian Portuguese edition of Windows 95
Other operating systems such as Linux may run, but Microsoft does not provide support, or drivers (known as "Virtual Machine Additions") for these operating systems. Supported Windows operating systems can run inside Virtual PC. Virtual PC virtualizes a standard IBM PC compatible device and its associated hardware. Windows Virtual PC is not supported on Windows 8 or Windows 10, and has been superseded by Hyper-V. The older versions, which support a wider range of host and guest operating systems, remain available. The newest release, Windows Virtual PC, does not run on versions of Windows earlier than Windows 7, and does not officially support MS-DOS or operating systems earlier than Windows XP Professional SP3 as guests. In August 2006, Microsoft announced the Macintosh version would not be ported to Intel-based Macintosh computers, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macintosh computers would no longer be manufactured. In July 2006, Microsoft released the Windows version free of charge. Windows Virtual PC (successor to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, and Connectix Virtual PC) was a virtualization program for Microsoft Windows. com /en-us /help /958559 /description-of-windows-virtual-pc
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