neo1980 Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 If i have Windows XP on a NTFS format , can i have Windows 98 runninng a virtual PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 December2001 Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 I'm using VMware 3.0, you can have any OS you can imaging with it, I think Virtual PC works the same way, just try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 neo1980 Posted January 28, 2002 Author Share Posted January 28, 2002 im just asking cuz 98 does not support NTFS, same case wid linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 December2001 Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 First I installed VMware on comp with Win2000, both drives c and d are fat32, but VMware made NTSC and installed win98se, than xphome, than linux, without any problems. And under win2000 I still see fat32, so I hope Virtual PC is going to do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ElGato Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 Originally posted by neo1980 If i have Windows XP on a NTFS format , can i have Windows 98 runninng a virtual PC? Yes, the virtual PC is just basically a file on your PC that get's mounted by the software, (much like the old Win9x compressed drives). The file system within the file can be virtually, (pardon the pun), anything you like regardles off the file system you are running your real PC on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 VanAlex Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 Sure you can =) nop there, you can even have linux working with a XP host. You can try VMWare also for virtual PCs, I don?t know if there is other software besides VMWare and Connectix Virtual PC, but I hope so because I think they?re both very slow even in good PCs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hook-Ups Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 Originally posted by VanAlex Sure you can =) nop there, you can even have linux working with a XP host. You can try VMWare also for virtual PCs, I don?t know if there is other software besides VMWare and Connectix Virtual PC, but I hope so because I think they?re both very slow even in good PCs. b> I totally agree with that and emulations is always gonna be slow cuz it's in a "virtual" environment. You can install all listed os's regardless of File System Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 neo1980 Posted January 28, 2002 Author Share Posted January 28, 2002 So if I install Mandrake on Virtual PC, I hope it wont give me a boot disk error or something when i restart my PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 December2001 Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 No, coz Virtual OS is just virtual drive, it's not gonna start when you boot your box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 neo1980 Posted January 28, 2002 Author Share Posted January 28, 2002 Which is better.. Connectix Virtual PC or VMWare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Silvorgold Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 never knew there was vpc for windows, gotta look closer at software packages now days.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 December2001 Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 Never tried Virtual PC so can't say, I used VMware V.2 before, now VMware 3 rocks, you have full screen mode but like others said it's a little bit slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 VanAlex Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 I use both, for some reason I prefer VMWare, but lately I?m using Virtual PC because I?couldn?t get GUI for red hat 7.2 in VMWare. Both are quite easy to set up and understand, with full network support ,SVGA, Drag & Drop and both are quite slow.....so it's a question of price or crack =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MxxCon Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 from my personal experience it seems like VPC is faster with video. VMWARE is faster with disk. VPC also has this nice feature it's something like virtual drive. you share a dir on host computer and it becomes drive letter on virtual. easy to move files around if you can't get network to work :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sailgreg Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 VMware is better then vpc :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tesseract Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 i have not had much experience w/ both of them, but they both seem to perform about the same for me, but vmware iseems to be more configuable. Please move this to software discussion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Keldyn Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 Moved to Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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