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...?
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Started by flyman, Apr 08 2008 07:35 AM
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 10:07 AM
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...?
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.co...orter_tool.html) has a great utility that converts a VPC image.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 11:38 AM
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.co...orter_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.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 01:50 PM
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.
Not sure I need another virtual system after my last experience with VPC but thanks for the info though.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 03:38 PM
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?
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Posted 09 April 2008 - 12:54 AM
flyman, on April 8th 2008, 11:38 PM, said:
So which of the 2 do you think is the better?
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Posted 12 April 2008 - 07:44 AM
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.
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!
