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| Thread ID: 70761 | 2006-07-15 08:03:00 | Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 (free now) | beama (111) | Press F1 |
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| 471042 | 2006-07-15 08:03:00 | Microsoft Virtual pc 2004 is now free and can be downloaded here (www.microsoft.com) The installer says that win2k and winxp pro are the supported install platforms but Im using it on xp home with no ill effects so far. |
beama (111) | ||
| 471043 | 2006-07-15 10:29:00 | Can you give a brief description of how you are using this program? | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 471044 | 2006-07-15 11:27:00 | Is it only the Windows version that's free? | Nermal (7077) | ||
| 471045 | 2006-07-15 21:00:00 | Can you give a brief description of how you are using this program? The best advice is I can give is read the intro pages that the link I gave goes to There is a flash prestitation that expalins its functions far better than I could here. Its microsofts version of vmware. From my brief look at it, it may even allow virtual machines created in vmware to used, but I havent tried this yet. Is it only the Windows version that's free? 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. As with any software of this type before trying it out back up your valuable data, as one mistake could mean a reinstall Ill know more about it when Ive had a chance to try it out at work. |
beama (111) | ||
| 471046 | 2006-07-15 22:16:00 | VMWare Player and VMWare Server have also been released as free software now. | somebody (208) | ||
| 471047 | 2006-07-17 03:00:00 | Thanks for the link, I have played around with Qemu and VmWare player for most of my emulation needs, and Virtual PC seems to allow me to play with some of the O/s that i couldn't get to work in the other emulators, finally got to try out BeOS Max, and it was really responsive (I had assumed it would be sluggish) Ironically I had problems testing out M$ operating systems, got to track down a copy of DOS 6 and MS wfw 3.1 (and a copy of microsoft BOB, to see if it really was that Bad) Cheers |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 471048 | 2006-07-17 04:54:00 | 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? |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 471049 | 2006-07-17 05:17:00 | That's interesting info. Thanks for the headsup. | linw (53) | ||
| 471050 | 2006-07-17 05:41:00 | 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? That's what I was wondering too.And which is the easiest one to try first!! |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 471051 | 2006-07-17 06:54:00 | Installed 98se no problems even managed to install a Novell Client and login to a Novell network. Installing ubuntu now let you know how it goes btw If installing a MS OS such as 98se the virtual machine will use the host OS drivers . Well thats want I found with the 98 install and no 98 didnt have the drivers for the machine native to OS. |
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