Virtual PC

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I'm considering experimenting with Virtual PC. The concept is
interesting, but, what are the negatives?
 
I have been using VirtualPC for a couple of years now. There are no
negatives. It does what it is meant to do and does it well.
 
It depends on what you want to do.
The virtual PC is slower than a native PC, the emulated hardware is legacy
hardware. No graphic acceleration, no USB.

But this work fine.
You can also use VMWARE free player, or the open source virtual PC.

Daniel
 
It works well for some tasks, poorly for others, whether or not it will work
for what you want to do we can't even begin to guess as you provided no info
on your plans.
 
Richard said:
I have been using VirtualPC for a couple of years now. There are no
negatives. It does what it is meant to do and does it well.
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Thanks for the feed back Richard.
 
Mellowed said:
I'm considering experimenting with Virtual PC. The concept is
interesting, but, what are the negatives?
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It's a POS. Use VMware.

Cheers.

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A US president declared war on poverty. Poverty won.
Another US president declared a war on drugs. Drugs won.
This US president declared a war on terror. Terror won.
Next?
 
David said:
It works well for some tasks, poorly for others, whether or not it will
work for what you want to do we can't even begin to guess as you
provided no info on your plans.
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I was thinking of playing around with LINUX. Can it be loaded within
Virtual PC?
 
Thanks. I was thinking UBUNTO but they are all the same to me. I just
wanted to try it out without screwing up my successful Vista installation.
 
Bob said:
I can never get Ubuntu to load in VPC. The installer tries to use some
video screen size/resolution/whatever that is not supported by VPC.

Try PCLinuxOS. It looks better than the hideously ugly Ubuntu and
installs in VPC just fine.

Bob Campbell
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Thanks Bob. Nice input. Of course I just downloaded 700mb of Ubuntu.
Whatever. I can try both. Just curious anyhow.
 
NoStop said:
It's a POS. Use VMware.

Cheers.

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A US president declared war on poverty. Poverty won.
Another US president declared a war on drugs. Drugs won.
This US president declared a war on terror. Terror won.
Next?
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The government handed out brains. NoStop was in the mens room tapping his
foot on the stall and missed the handout. Too bad.
 
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