A suggestion to dual boot people(Vista Ultimate)

[Jeff]

Hi,

If you have all that space to do a dual boot,
why not try a VM solution?
I found that VPC 2007 is an easy solution to the dualboot issues;
plus, you can run both o.s.'s at once
(Vista Ultimate host) (most o.s's as a guest)

Jeff

 

[Mike]

Hi,

If you have all that space to do a dual boot,
why not try a VM solution?
I found that VPC 2007 is an easy solution to the dualboot issues;
plus, you can run both o.s.'s at once
(Vista Ultimate host) (most o.s's as a guest)

I've got Server 2003 running in VPC 2007 with Vista Ultimate as host. I
need an occasional SQL Server 2005 for development here, and this is the
easiest solution for me.

I also have BeOS, OS/2 and Windows 2000, just for the hell of it.

Ubuntu Linux 6.10 wouldn't install - had bizarre display problems. I'll
give OS X a try next, although it's already running native on this machine.

Also, I wanted to install Home Basic and/or Home premium in VPC, but it's a
no go from the start. It's not a VPC issue though. It's the weirdest
thing I've ever seen: as soon as I insert my Vista DVD into the drive, Vista
locks up solid. Other CDs/DVDs work fine, and this is the DVD that I used
to install my running copy of Ultimate! It's 100% repeatable. Insert
Vista DVD, Vista locks up. No mouse, task manager frozen, no
CTR-ALT-DELETE. Nothing. Hard reset time.

Mike

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It also avoids the problem of XP's volsnap.sys messing up Vista VSS files.
The only folks that can't go that route are those who need XP to support a
card or run a 3D game not supported in Vista. All in all it is an excellent
solution.

 

[Jeff]

Mike,

Weird

Ubuntu needs a graphics change,
Colin is the man about vpc stuff

Jeff
osx has been done-(so I "hear") lol

 

[William]

Do you have OS X running on an Apple computer? If not, then how did you
do it?

 

[Mark Rae]

I'll give OS X a try next

Best of luck...

 

[Robert Firth]

Haha, I can't get VPC 2007 to work. I tried to set the memory available to
the guest, and it won't go over 0mb. After it is setup, I tried to change
the memory, and it stops responding and crashes. If I don't give the vm more
memory, the os setup complains about insufficient memory.

It's just not happy.

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[Mike]

Do you have OS X running on an Apple computer? If not, then how did you do
it?

I have OS X running on a non-Apple computer. There are versions floating
around that work. Mine is 10.4.6, but 10.4.8 is also available. It's
easy to install. I even have it on an IBM Thinkpad laptop. Everything
works fine, including the wireless NIC.

Lots of good info (but no download links for obvious reason) can be found
at:

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Mike

 

[Mike]

Best of luck...

I could never get it to work on VPC 2004. It works in VMWare, however.
Also, I have it installed natively on this machine. Works fine, but I must
admit I don't use it much these days, now that Vista is done!

Mike

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Ubuntu detects the S3Trio card and optimizes graphics to 24bit color depth.
Unfortunately, while the real S3 card supports 24bits, the emulated card in
VPC does not.

To resolve the issue:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToConfigureUbuntuForMicrosoftVirtualPC2004

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

How much system memory do you have? This kind of thing has come up in the
microsoft.public.virtualpc ng, so if you haven't already check that one out.

 

[Mike]

Mike,

Weird

Ubuntu needs a graphics change,
Colin is the man about vpc stuff

Jeff
osx has been done-(so I "hear") lol

I outsmarted my Vista DVD hang problem. I still had the ISO image online,
so I just captured that in VPC. Home Basic is installing now.

Ubuntu 6.10 needed the Safe Graphics Mode option. I couldn't read anything
at the time because it was so badly scrambled, and I wasn't familiar with
that first boot screen - I've only just pressed Enter!

OS X - nudge nudge wink wink say no more.

Mike

 

[Jeff]

Colin,
Just do it the other way around then,
X hmm X something(lol) host- Vista guest,
but no aero

Jeff

 

[Robert Firth]

Hehe, you are good. Jeff said the same thing when I told him I only had
512mb of memory. I was kinda hoping that at least 98SE would run, but no
cigar.

Haha, thanks for the suggestion!

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[Jeff]

Mike,
Check out Colin's post further down the thread-
he's Da MAN with vpc
-he's got a link to your ubuntu issue

Jeff

 

[Chad Harris]

VPC requires a certain amount of RAM. It's why there is no MSFT Presentor
in the field on planet earth who has less than 2GB on his box. Steve Riley
[MSFT] has 4GB and 4MHZ and dice on the mirror on his little HP for this
reason.

CH

 

[Dennis Pack]

Colin:
Charlie Russel told me to use VM right after XP x64 went RTM and I
still haven't tried it. I'll probably kick my a** when I find out how easy
it is. When I installed Vista Enterprise x64 on this computer I also setup
BitLocker which also avoids the volsnap.sys problem between XP and Vista.
Have a great holiday season.

 

[Jeff]

ahh
limitations
true Chad
this is a good solution for many issues, not all
dice?
nice touch
HH btw
wait, I posted that somewhere else!! lol
Christmas break at duh.edu

Jeff

VPC requires a certain amount of RAM. It's why there is no MSFT Presentor
in the field on planet earth who has less than 2GB on his box. Steve
Riley [MSFT] has 4GB and 4MHZ and dice on the mirror on his little HP for
this reason.

CH

Hi,

If you have all that space to do a dual boot,
why not try a VM solution?
I found that VPC 2007 is an easy solution to the dualboot issues;
plus, you can run both o.s.'s at once
(Vista Ultimate host) (most o.s's as a guest)

Jeff