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Who else uses Microsoft Virtual PC (any flavour)?

Running Virtual PC 2004 (the free version) on XP Pro at the moment - with OS/2 as a guest.

Must say I find it so ironic, remembering the bad blood between IBM and Microsoft... :D
 
i've just installed VMWARE 1.1 and downloaded the VMWare Server 2.0 (500mb)

trying to test a customer nlite XP CD on the vmware 1.1, but it's taking forever to install!
 
Anybody using MS VPC should have their heads examined :D It really is a poor piece of software when compared to VMware server; which in turn is lousy when compared to VirtualBox....
 
Virtual PC 2007 on XP with Windows 98 as guest. Have Virtualbox as well - want to move to Ubuntu at the end of the year, so that will make the transition easier, I guess. Can't use Ubuntu exclusively, since Endnote (reference and citation manager) only works on Windows and Mac OS :(
 
Conradl said:
Anybody using MS VPC should have their heads examined :D It really is a poor piece of software when compared to VMware server; which in turn is lousy when compared to VirtualBox....
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No arguments here though I use VPC2007. :D
Ubuntu doesn't like it one bit though Suse does work.
Reason I installed it originally is my OS is Vista 64bit and nothing else seemed to work at the time, so here's the question -
I see there is an am64 binary but will VirtualBox work on my host OS? Also is there software to convert the guest installations?

I seem to remember there being something like that between VMware and the original VPC before MS bought them.
 
You can convert the guest images, if that does not work you can always P2V the guest into a new container....
 
One thing I don't like about it: It doesn't support 64 bit guest OS's...
 
Yip used it a few times to run android and some small linux distros
 
I've always used MS VPC and later, VirtualBox - recently tried VMWare and am hooked - a bit more complex with some settings, but found it much faster and more compatible.
 
The_Librarian said:
Who else uses Microsoft Virtual PC (any flavour)?

Running Virtual PC 2004 (the free version) on XP Pro at the moment - with OS/2 as a guest.

Must say I find it so ironic, remembering the bad blood between IBM and Microsoft... :D
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all via XPM- mainly for testing at work [really not so slow because xpm used direct integration afiak]:

Ubuntu, quite a bitch to setup ;)
Vista, just for fun :)
plain vanilla xp, never know when need ie6 again :mad:
some other xp's with different setups, different testing purposes :D
 
The_Librarian said:
IE in all its incarnations = :sick:

And it still beats me why some sites still do insist on using IE-only content. :mad:
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same here, but the beast decrees that and when it is an allout ms company what can one do :(
 
The_Librarian said:
Running Virtual PC 2004 (the free version) on XP Pro at the moment - with OS/2 as a guest.

Must say I find it so ironic, remembering the bad blood between IBM and Microsoft... :D
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Ironic indeed, OS/2 was way superior at the time.
 
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