GuestPC & OS 10.5
Hello:
I've been running GuestPC 1.9.7 on my G4 powermac since 2006. It has worked flawlessly under Tiger. Yesterday I upgraded to Leopard...
And while I haven't put it thru a ton of paces just yet, I did fire up a GuestPC window (I run Win2000) and got a couple of things going (started an app also went online to check for security updates), and bammo got a kernel panic.
I know that G4s and GuestPC are a bit 'retro' in these days of Intel & Parallels....
But do any of you know of definitie compatibility problems between GuestPC (after all, it hasn't been updated since '06) and Leopard? Is anyone here running this combination with no problems??
Thanks!
Tim Manwell
<Edited by Moderator>
You should probably go right to the source and contact GuestPC support.
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