Windows Virtual PC does not officially support MS-DOS or operating systems older than Windows XP Professional SP3 as guests. In 2009, Microsoft released Windows Virtual PC, which is only compatible with Windows 7 hosts, and is the technical foundation for the latter's Windows XP Mode. In August 2006, Microsoft announced the Mac version would not be ported to Intel-based Macs, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macs would no longer be manufactured. In July 2006, Microsoft released the Windows version free of charge. After Microsoft acquired Virtual PC from Connectix in 2003, the program was renamed Microsoft Virtual PC. Version 4 was released in 2000 for both Mac OS and Windows, and version 5 (2001) added support for Mac OS X hosts. Until version 4, Virtual PC only supported Classic Mac OS hosts. The Mac version was discontinued in 2006 following the Mac transition to Intel, while the Windows version was discontinued in 2011 in favour of Hyper-V.

It was created by Connectix in 1997 and acquired by Microsoft in 2003. Virtual PC is an x86 emulator for PowerPC Mac hosts and a virtualization app for Microsoft Windows hosts. For the generic term, see Virtual machine. As I told a relative when he started running Tiger on his G4: 'There's next to no sunlight between the two.This article is about the virtualization software by Microsoft. And in terms of just out-of-the-box networking between Macs & PCs, the vanilla user version of Tiger practically eliminated any coughs, chokes and hangups between Apple's SMB protocol and Microsoft's. I have done a little with Apple's X11 distribution - of which on this Forum you'll find scads of discussion and info - in OS X, and I agree it does make up the difference between the two ( or is it three now ? ) platforms. Virtual machine imaging Mac OS X has its own legal issues: the only 'Ten Version' as I like to phrase it where Apple's lawyers would be inclined to look the other way if someone virtualised it is (drum roll please) OS X 10.4 Tiger server. Those that exist for the direction you're choosing, even the commercial ones, have their own issues and are generally considered not worth the time money or effort. Operating system emulators tend to favor going the other way - Mac to Windows.

As a long time Mac user (work and home, classic and OS X), I agree with pludi.

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