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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / November 2006Parellels and Core Duo
With all the problems that I've had with VPC on my Mac I'm so welcoming the Parallels software on the Core Duo machines so that I can finally deliver VPC into the dustbin and try to forget the money that I've wasted on this product. At least the first reviews I've read are good. I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't have the nasty warts that VPC has... ...Get on our knees and pray...... We don't get fooled again! IMO, YMMV, DLC  Signature============================================================================ * Dennis Clark dlc@frii.com www.techtoystoday.com * * "Programming and Customizing the OOPic Microcontroller" Mcgraw-Hill 2003 * ============================================================================ > With all the problems that I've had with VPC on my Mac I'm so welcoming > the Parallels software on the Core Duo machines so that I can finally [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > IMO, YMMV, > DLC Most of those "nasty warts" are caused by running Windows itself, so using Parallels Desktop (or Boot Camp) won't let you esacpe them. ;o) Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) : > With all the problems that I've had with VPC on my Mac I'm so welcoming : > the Parallels software on the Core Duo machines so that I can finally [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] : > IMO, YMMV, : > DLC : Most of those "nasty warts" are caused by running Windows itself, so : using Parallels Desktop (or Boot Camp) won't let you esacpe them. ;o) : Helpful Harry : Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) Can't much argue with that logic. DLC Signature============================================================================ * Dennis Clark dlc@frii.com www.techtoystoday.com * * "Programming and Customizing the OOPic Microcontroller" Mcgraw-Hill 2003 * ============================================================================ I haven¹t been able to print from Virtual PC 7.0.2 since upgrading a few days ago to OS X 10.4.8 (G5). I don¹t know whether the O / S change is causing this, or something else. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks - Ken Cohen You would be better off starting this as a separate thread (New Post) than replying to an existing but irrelevant thread. >I haven¹t been able to print from Virtual PC 7.0.2 since upgrading a few > days ago to OS X 10.4.8 (G5). I don¹t know whether the O / S change is > causing this, or something else. Has anyone else had this problem? > > Thanks - Ken Cohen Hey Dennis, Parallels works great..! I've got it loaded on my Intel iMac running XP AND Suse Linux. Since kicking the MS habit at the beginning of this year and converting to the Mac I'm now at a loss as to what to do with XP on my Mac..! Oh well, it was fun to see XP on my Mac even if I never want to use it. Guess it's true what they say: "Once you go Mac, you never look back". > With all the problems that I've had with VPC on my Mac I'm so welcoming > the Parallels software on the Core Duo machines so that I can finally [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > IMO, YMMV, > DLC I use my XP on this mac for Family Tree Maker version 16 AOL 9 Windows Live messenger but I read the mail o the macintosh in FF I have just started using beta blogger so I have logged on to that in the Mac and and the old blogger on Windows i see that MS IE 7 has tabbed browsing and I am getting used toi taht in FireFox ' so I am going to get that installed next it will be useful for checking web pages created on the Mac with DreamWeaver Hugh W > Hey Dennis, > Parallels works great..! I've got it loaded on my Intel iMac running XP AND [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >>IMO, YMMV, >>DLC > Parallels works great..! I've got it loaded on my Intel iMac running XP AND > Suse Linux. Since kicking the MS habit at the beginning of this year and > converting to the Mac I'm now at a loss as to what to do with XP on my Mac..! > Oh well, it was fun to see XP on my Mac even if I never want to use it. Guess > it's true what they say: "Once you go Mac, you never look back". You could use it to run all those nasty viruses that the MacOS doesn't support. <:) Since VPC cannot run on the Intel Mac's, Parallels is your only option anyway. > With all the problems that I've had with VPC on my Mac I'm so welcoming > the Parallels software on the Core Duo machines so that I can finally [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > IMO, YMMV, > DLC there is another competitor on the way >> Microsoft is putting a halt to a version of its Virtual PC software for Intel-based Macs. The move comes after start-up Parallels introduced its own virtualization software for running Windows on a Mac, and VMware said Monday it plans to provide a beta version of Mac virtualization software later this year. << http://www.vmware.com/ Love your Mac and have your PC too VMware brings Intel-based Macs into the VMware family. Product Manager Srinivas Krishnamurti gives the behind-the-scenes story. Register for early access to the beta. >> http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/newsletters/vmtn_0906.html but you may need a OEM WInXP cd too enjoy Hugh W > Since VPC cannot run on the Intel Mac's, Parallels is your only option > anyway. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >>IMO, YMMV, >>DLC > there is another competitor on the way <snip> There's at least four main ways to run Windows software on an Intel-based Mac: Parallels Desktop http://www.parallels.com VMWare http://www.vmware.com Boot Camp http://www.apple.com/bootcamp CrossOver Mac http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/ (works similar to "Classic", but has a limited compatibility) The only method that currently works for games / uses the Mac's 3D graphics card is using Boot Camp to install a full version of Windows on your Mac cplete with Mac hardware drivers. All of these, except CrossOver, require you to buy a Windows license. This may become a bit of a problem for VMWare and Parallels when Vista finally arrives since the legalese currently says that the cheaper "home" versions of Vista can not be used with virtualisation, but that shouldn't affect Boot Camp. There are also two other ways that aren't quite so well-known and can be more difficult to set-up and are for more specific uses: DOSBox http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ Radnor adds a pretty Mac OS X front end to DOSBox http://sveinbjorn.vefsyn.is/radnor QEmu http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ iEmulator adds a pretty Mac OS X front end to QEmu http://www.iemulator.com/ Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) Home Basic and Home Premium do in fact work in a virtual machine. Vista itself does not contain support for virtualization anyway so there is nothing to "leave out" of the Home editions. What I suspect you were reading may have had something to do with running VPC on the Home editions. It will run but MS does not support it except in Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate. >> there is another competitor on the way > <snip> [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Helpful Harry > Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) |
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