XP Gone After June 30

[Bill in Co.]

You allocate the ram needed from the host's ram. It is like partitioning
the ram. If I am running XP with 512mb I can allocate, say, 128mb for
Win98SE (a generous amount for 98), leaving the host running with 384mb.
VPC itself is an application so the expected resources for an app apply.

I don't think you are visualizing virtualization correctly, though. The
virtual machine is not using anything from the host XP. The entire guest
operating system is in the vm and none of the host XP is in the guest.

Exactly which code IS resident though when you are using VPC to run Win98SE
or DOS or whathaveyou? Clearly SOME other code is running (besides only
the guest operating system), which would only be the case if you installed
it directly, and did not use VPC or anything else.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

The code is running in the guest. VPC manages the virtual machine's
environment.

 

[Bill in Co.]

The code is running in the guest. VPC manages the virtual machine's
environment.

But that is overhead, since VPC is also running. IOW, it's not just a pure
native software environment (like Win98SE or DOS) that is really running
here - there is that other, resident, VPC code running in the background
(presumably monitoring function calls, etc, etc).