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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2007Windows Vista And Virtual PC 7 For Mac
I have Virtual PC 7 with Windows XP Proffesional on a PowerBook G4. Will Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate function under Virtual PC 7? You would have to use Ultimate. The EULA for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium says that you may not run them in a virtual machine. Crazy as something like that sounds, MS really did put that in the EULA. There is nothing in the code that would prevent it but the licensing issue is there. Vista will run very slowly and the virtual machine additions do not help Vista. You would need at least a 512MB ram allocation and I recommend 768MB. You will not get the 3d stuff, of course, but Vista will run in a vm. I doubt that you will find it useable, however. If you were running a G5 I would feel a little better about your results but I don't think a G4 will have enough horsepower. The effective performance of a vm on a G4 will fall well below the 800MHZ minimum requirement for Vista. >I have Virtual PC 7 with Windows XP Proffesional on a PowerBook G4. > Will Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate function under Virtual PC > 7? > Vista will run very slowly and the virtual machine additions do not help > Vista. You would need at least a 512MB ram allocation and I recommend > 768MB. You will not get the 3d stuff, of course, but Vista will run in VPC for Mac's RAM limit is 512 MB no matter how much RAM is in the host Mac. VPC for Mac does NOT meet the minimum requirements for a Vista-capable machine. Attempting to run Vista on a PPC Mac is pretty close to the definition of masochism, albeit possible. In all fairless you're better off buying the most minimal Vista-capable PC out there or upgrading to an Intel Mac. > > Vista will run very slowly and the virtual machine additions do not help > > Vista. You would need at least a 512MB ram allocation and I recommend [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > In all fairless you're better off buying the most minimal Vista-capable > PC out there or upgrading to an Intel Mac. With the reportedly less-than-enthusiastic take-up of Vista, you are probably better not bothering with Vista at all for the time being and wait for Vista 2.0, as well as the new Intel Mac to run it on. :o) Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) > > > Vista will run very slowly and the virtual machine additions do not help > > > Vista. You would need at least a 512MB ram allocation and I recommend [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > probably better not bothering with Vista at all for the time being and > wait for Vista 2.0, as well as the new Intel Mac to run it on. :o) Joy of Tech's latest cartoon sums Vista up nicely. ;o) http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/915.gif Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) |
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