Windows Vista on Virtual PC???

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Mario Been - 15 Mar 2007 21:31 GMT

Hello,

Has anyone got experience with installing Windows Vista on a Virtual PC?

I have the idea to maybe do so, but the only thing is that my virtual pc's
have a limit of 256mb RAM.
Is it wise for me to give it a try?

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Paul Power - 16 Mar 2007 00:55 GMT

> Hello,
>
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> have a limit of 256mb RAM.
> Is it wise for me to give it a try?

NO...........................

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Michael Vilain - 16 Mar 2007 03:36 GMT

> Hello,
>
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> have a limit of 256mb RAM.
> Is it wise for me to give it a try?

Given that it requires hardware beyond what VPC emulates and that VISTA
has specific caveats in it's licensing to prohibit running it in
"virtual environments", I wouldn't waste my time. W2K is useable. XP
runs slowly enough to be just bearly tolerable. I can't imagine waiting
5 minutes for a screen refresh or a window to open although it's almost
come to that on XP running on VPC.

In short, don't bother. Life is short.

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Steve Jain - 16 Mar 2007 05:28 GMT

>> Hello,
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>
>In short, don't bother. Life is short.

The Business and Ultimate versions allow you to run in a VM, and there
are special circumstances where you can legally run other versions in
a VM.

But, given that Vista needs 512MB of RAM and there aren't any Vista
Additions for VPC-Mac, running Vista on VPC-Mac would definitely be
painful.

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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

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Jim Gordon MVP - 16 Mar 2007 18:42 GMT

Hi Mario,

Running Vista on a G4 or G5 PC in Microsoft's Virtual PC program is not
practical. It's just way too slow.

To run Vista you need an Intel Mac. And even at that I would suggest a
minimum of 3 Gigabytes of RAM to make the experience tolerable if you want
to run Mac and Windows applications at the same time using Parallels or
VMWare. If you don't mind switching between Mac and Windows using Apple's
BootCamp you can get by with 2 Gig of RAM.

If you run Vista on an Intel Mac that has enough RAM it will be a good user
experience speed-wise.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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> Hello,
>
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> have a limit of 256mb RAM.
> Is it wise for me to give it a try?

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