Running Virtual PC 2007 SP1 on Windows XP Pro SP3 under Parallels 3.0.5608 on Leopard

Hi guys,

See the topic title for my configuration.

I have an assignment to do. It involves using Norton DiskEdit. I have been kindly supplied a Virtual PC hard disk and configuration file with all of the software I need to run (including DOS 6.22) DiskEdit and do the assignment. I have been doing the assignment under Windows using BootCamp (by which I mean I reboot).

Trying to run Virtual PC under Parallels gives this errors from VPC 2007:

"Virtual PC is incompatible with the physical processor in this computer.

Virtual PC requires at least a Pentium II (or equivalent) processor."

I know trying to run virtualization under virtualization seems crazy, but are there any plans to support Virtual PC 2007?

I have tried to migrate the VPC config file (which doesn't work) and the VPC virtual hard drive (which completes, but won't boot (hangs on the Starting MS-DOS line)) but haven't had success.

Thanks.

Evan.

 

On a related question, is there any way to write-protect a virtual floppy image? I need to be able to do this.

Thanks.

 

from mac OS side
chmod 444 /path/to/fdd