Virtual PC

Johan Pretorius

What do you think is the best virtual PC application. I only know of xen and VMWare. I need to install the following os's on them for testing software : Linux Suse 10.1 enterprize Window XP Pro Mac OS X Sorry if it is a repost ... did a search in the lounge for the topic (last 3months) and allot can change in that time. Thank you in advance

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David Crow

CaveFox wrote:

I only know of xen and VMWare.

There's also Microsoft's Virtual Server and Virtual PC.

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Ray Kinsella

Parallels ... may be mac only but ... ;P

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Im sorry for ask this question but What is it?(Virtual PC application)

_Zorro_

Here you have some info (MS site)[^]

Doctor Nick

An application that lets you emulate another OS. You can use this software to run Linux on your Windows machine without having to dual boot. The virtual OS/PC runs in a window and is more or less a different computer. Kind of like dual core processors have two processors to the OS but are on the same CPU. (Probably get flamed for that analogy;P)

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ResidentGeek

(Nitpick Mode on) VMWare and Virtual PC and the like don't "emulate the OS" - it's a real OS, really installed. The "emulation" is of the hardware - a "virtual PC" (end of Nitpick Mode) ;P

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amclint

ResidentGeek wrote:

Caffeine - it's what's for breakfast! (and lunch, and dinner, and...)

I can relate to that :-D

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Paul Conrad

CaveFox wrote:

What do you think is the best virtual PC application

I use both VMWare and Microsoft Virtual PC. They both fit the bill for my needs :)

Johan Pretorius

Thank you for the info. Im going to use Virtual PC for WinXP + WinVista and VMware for linux + mac osx Thank you again!:-D

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No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness. ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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Dan Neely

Unless VMWare and VPC have gotten a lot easier to setup over the last few years, I'd strongly suggest using the same app for all platforms to save yourself the pain.

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Johan Pretorius

Tnx for the tip :-D But in your opinion is which gives to least amount of problems? (linux/osx/windows)

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness. ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
I can't always be wrong ... or can I?

Neville Franks

I am a happy VMWare owner and user. I'm playing with FreeNAS which uses FreeBSD on it right now.

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Dan Neely

Three years ago, getting any of them to work under win2k was hell. I haven't attempted any other configs before or since then.

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