http://www.osnews.com/story/17319/Microsoft_Issues_Free_Virtual_PC_2007 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:42:20 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?214880 http://osnews.com/thread?214880 are there no more emulators for old mac owners? i'd still like something on my g5 it doesn't matter if it doesn't do x86. even g4 or g5 emulation is fine so i can run linux. but i'd like some speed. qemu is too slow. Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (broken_symlink) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?214881 http://osnews.com/thread?214881 The Mac (Power PC) version is still not free... Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ed1986) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?214902 http://osnews.com/thread?214902 Any comments on Virtual PC 2007's performance compared to VMware, at least subjective opinions? How about compared to VirtualBox? I get what feels like almost native performance with VMware Linux machines running on my Win XP host. I never tried Virtual PC because I read it was much slower. But the downside is that VMware is a huge download and it's very invasive on the host system. Virtual PC somehow seems lighter-weight to me. Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sb56637) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?214906 http://osnews.com/thread?214906 USB? then why gave it a '2007'? Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wgan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?214924 http://osnews.com/thread?214924 it feels faster than vpc 2004sp1 (with openbsd as guest os)on a pentium3 733mhz box. I don't know how it compare with vmware though (because it's not free) Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (edogawaconan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?214933 http://osnews.com/thread?214933 still can't do a screen capture in 2007 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lqsh) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?214938 http://osnews.com/thread?214938 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=04d26402-3... Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cfrankb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?214945 http://osnews.com/thread?214945 VMWare Server is free
VMWare Workstation 6 Beta is also free Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lamego) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?214995 http://osnews.com/thread?214995 I installed it last night on Windows Vista Host with Windows XP guest. It feels slower then VMware 5.5.3 with Windows XP host, Windows XP guest . My computer does not have a processor with "virtual technology" (old AMD dual core 4200) so Virtual PC cannot take advantage of it.
I was disapointed about the feature of that new release: I did not find much compare to Virtual PC 2004. I did not find any "snapshot" of virtual machine, a feature that I constantly use with VMware. As expected, no support for a Linux guest with Virtual PC! Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (topos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215000 http://osnews.com/thread?215000 Cool, thanks! Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sb56637) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215030 http://osnews.com/thread?215030 Been running VMWare WS and Player during 2006. Nice, very nice. But lately, I've rediscovered Qemu. It's improved speed and great documentation made me an addict. I use it on Arch, with Beryl running. Now windows finally flies. It's brilliant, and easy to tune.
Off topic? So what?! Why add more memory hogs to an already loaded Vista using Virtual PC.
There's less and less things you cannot do without windoze. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Arne J.) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215037 http://osnews.com/thread?215037 It's not slower. VPC2004 was on par with VMWare5. Now VPC uses hardware-assisted virtualization which improves the performance. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (como) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215056 http://osnews.com/thread?215056 "VMWare Workstation 6 Beta is also free"

is it time limited, or can i keep running it after the v6 is out?Edited 2007-02-21 08:16 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kamil_chatrnuch) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215079 http://osnews.com/thread?215079 the thing that gets me though these things arnt "virtualization" their Emulation.

as just one example, if they were real 'virtualization' then your virtual USB port would be working at the real speed, or hell , it would actually see a USB2 port as that (not slow usb1.1),and use that at almost the true speed and you would be able to use for instance your USB2 DVB-T stick, these Emulators can NOT do even that so are very limited for anything (and thats a lot of things)
USB related. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (popper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215087 http://osnews.com/thread?215087 AFAIK, No.

- Gilboa Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215123 http://osnews.com/thread?215123 Can this program be run under wine? Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dindin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215173 http://osnews.com/thread?215173 Yes VMware Workstation 6 Beta is free, but it also runs in Debug Mode, which pretty well saps it dry performance wise. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Robert Escue) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215285 http://osnews.com/thread?215285 Long awaited? By who? I'm happy with my VMWare. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Excessive) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?215410 http://osnews.com/thread?215410 It makes sense given the huge recent interest in virtualisation that tens of thousands would be interested.

The fact that you're not interested doesn't equate to nobody else being interested either. Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (flanque) Comments