[flyman]

Hi Everyone,

Along while back I bought Virtual PC that came with XP Pro for my PowerMac G4 and I was wondering if its possible to install just XP Pro from these discs onto my Mac Pro - Any ideas...?

[pschorr]

flyman, on April 8th 2008, 09:35 AM, said:

Hi Everyone,

Along while back I bought Virtual PC that came with XP Pro for my PowerMac G4 and I was wondering if its possible to install just XP Pro from these discs onto my Mac Pro - Any ideas...?

I don't believe it is possible to transfer into a bootcamp partition, but products like VMWare Fusion (http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/importer_tool.html) has a great utility that converts a VPC image.

[flyman]

pschorr, on April 8th 2008, 09:07 AM, said:

I don't believe it is possible to transfer into a bootcamp partition, but products like VMWare Fusion (http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/importer_tool.html) has a great utility that converts a VPC image.

Hi pschorr,

Not sure I need another virtual system after my last experience with VPC but thanks for the info though.

[Janichsan]

flyman, on April 8th 2008, 07:38 PM, said:

Hi pschorr,

Not sure I need another virtual system after my last experience with VPC but thanks for the info though.

VMware (or the similar Parallels) is pretty different from VPC. The latter one is an emulator – and hence bloody slow – while VMware is a virtualisation. Is basically passes Windows' accesses more or less directly through to your actual hardware. It's almost as fast as running Windows natively and very compatible.

[flyman]

Janichsan, on April 8th 2008, 12:50 PM, said:

VMware (or the similar Parallels) is pretty different from VPC. The latter one is an emulator – and hence bloody slow – while VMware is a virtualisation. Is basically passes Windows' accesses more or less directly through to your actual hardware. It's almost as fast as running Windows natively and very compatible.

So which of the 2 do you think is the better?

[Janichsan]

flyman, on April 8th 2008, 11:38 PM, said:

So which of the 2 do you think is the better?

I personally have Parallels (mainly because it came earlier), but they are both very similar. VMware has a few advantages above Parallels (like support for more than one CPU) and vice versa (Parallels has better MacOS X integration), but basically it's almost only a matter of personal preferences.

[flyman]

Janichsan, on April 8th 2008, 11:54 PM, said:

I personally have Parallels (mainly because it came earlier), but they are both very similar. VMware has a few advantages above Parallels (like support for more than one CPU) and vice versa (Parallels has better MacOS X integration), but basically it's almost only a matter of personal preferences.

Thanks Janichsan,
I dont think I'll need either of these products just yet but I'll bare that in mind.
As I have a company version of XP I'm not too worried right now!