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| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 471052 | 2006-07-18 01:12:00 | Wohoo, this thing is great fun. Apparantly VMWare is better though? <shrug> just what i'm told. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 471053 | 2006-07-18 01:40:00 | The supported install platforms are xp pro and win2k but I have installed it (with some objection from the installer) on xp home but some functions are disabled. I'll take that as a Yes. |
Nermal (7077) | ||
| 471054 | 2006-07-18 01:48:00 | It looks really cool, I just can't figure out why I would use it :( Could you run linux on it, so that if you wanted to use linux, you wouldn't have to reboot? If you wanted to test something like new beta drivers for example without screwing up your PC, you could use a virtual machine to do so (if it screws it up no big deal) Software developers and even network admins often use virtual machines. |
Master_Frost (9951) | ||
| 471055 | 2006-07-18 01:59:00 | Can you stick Mac OS on a virtual machine? | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 471056 | 2006-07-18 02:22:00 | A little lost here...got the prgm dnldd, and I tried to install 98SE...it mounted the drive ok, and then it asked if I wanted to use the cd-rom, cd-rom assist or boot from hd. I said to use cd-rom, and then it went to format the c drive which is my root disk. I hit the kill switch and rebooted into XP all well and good...but what did I do wrong? Is it just going to make a partition on the c drive or is it going to remove my XP and re-write 98SE to the c drive? Do I need to leave the cd w/98SE in the cd drive to make it work or can I actually install 98SE in a new partition? Confused, to say the least. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 471057 | 2006-07-18 02:56:00 | SurferJoe, it goes like this.... First you create a virtual machine Then it creates a .vhd (virtual hard drive), which is stored as a file on your pc. So, yours might be win98.vhd sitting in a folder you specify. Your virtual machine will treat this as a harddrive. So when it says its going to format c:... You are running that virtual machine, which is really a seperate pc. That pc sees it has one drive, and its called c:, and so it will format it, and install win98 on. All that happens inside your virtual hard drive, so nothing gets affected on your pc, only that file you created. Not sure if I explained that properly.. Someone else here can clean up my mess ;) |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 471058 | 2006-07-18 03:09:00 | Just to run all the options, is there a way to use a different (away from the root drive) hdd for the v/m? I know Windows likes "c" drives for accessing programs, but is it possible to use, say my "K" drive for it? ...or is this nothing to worry about? Remember that I lost a couple of hdds to grub installer b4...just a little leery here that's all! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 471059 | 2006-07-18 03:41:00 | The virtual machine is a seperate machine. If you went on my pc and formatted C, it wouldn't format C on your pc. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 471060 | 2006-07-18 03:43:00 | Can you stick Mac OS on a virtual machine? No, and since the Mac version doesn't seem to be free, you can't do vice versa either. |
Nermal (7077) | ||
| 471061 | 2006-07-18 03:50:00 | Is the only reason because of the CPU? Because Mac OS needs uh... a mac cpu? (Yes, I admit, I know nothing about macs) I read something about Intel's being able to run mac and windows. But I have AMD, so no matter. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
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