Editing Virtual PC (section)

=== Virtual PC by Connectix ===
[[File:Virtual PC 3 for Mac OS running Windows 95.png|thumb|[[Connectix]] Virtual PC version 3 in [[Mac OS 9]], running a [[Brazilian Portuguese]] edition of [[Windows 95]]]]

Virtual PC was originally developed as a Macintosh application for [[System 7.5]] and released by Connectix in June 1997.<ref name="Uq7GE">{{cite web|title=PC in a Mac|url=http://www.yale.edu/engineering/eng-info/msg00234.html|website=Yale Engineering Home newsgroup|publisher=[[Yale University]]|access-date=21 March 2015|date=8 April 1997|quote=[...]Connectix Virtual PC is designed to run on Power PC systems running System 7.5 or later. Pricing will be announced when the product becomes generally available for the retail channel in June 1997.|archive-date=October 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018045531/http://www.yale.edu/engineering/eng-info/msg00234.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The first version of Virtual PC designed for Windows-based systems, version 4.0, was released in June 2001. Virtual PC 4 was the first version with expandable drive images.

Connectix sold versions of Virtual PC bundled with a variety of guest operating systems, including Windows, [[OS/2]], and [[Red Hat Linux]]. As virtualization's importance to enterprise users became clear, Microsoft took interest in the sector and acquired Virtual PC and [[Microsoft Virtual Server|Virtual Server]] (unreleased at the time) from Connectix in February 2003.

Under agreement with Connectix, Innotek GmbH (makers of [[VirtualBox]], now part of [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]]) ported version 5.0 to run on an OS/2 host.<ref name="jG6CD">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060324234502/http://www.bityard.com/article.php?sid=100#Adds Innotek/Connectix Virtual PC]</ref> This version also included guest extensions (VM additions) for OS/2 guests, which could run on Windows, OS/2 or Mac OS X hosts using Virtual PC versions 5, 6 or 7. A new version of the guest extensions was later included with Microsoft's Virtual PC 2004.