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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / December 2007Virtual PC and Win XP
I have a licensed copy of MS Office 2004 Professional for my Mac. Among the bundled software is a copy of Virtual PC 7, and Windows XP SP2. When the time comes, I can see replacing my iMac G-5 with an Intel iMac, and replacing Virtual PC with Bootcamp or Parallels. So, the question is: Win XP is bundled on the disks with Virtual PC. How can I get my copy of Win XP loaded on a new iMac? I recall seeing an article that described pulling Win XP off the VPC disks, and burning a new Win XP disk, but I'm unable to locate that article (which actually was part of a process that allowed one to decrease the virtual disk size of VPC down from a default 15gb to about 4gb). Thanks for thoughts, Bob From prior discussions here on this list it was stated that the XP that comes with VPC is an OEM version. Basically what this means is that legally you can not use that CD or license with anything else but VPC. Technically you can but not legally. I never read my license that came with my VPC 6.1 and XP but I'm sure it's stated in there too. Just depends how easy it is to read the EULA to find it. On 11/29/07 5:33 PM, in article 20d926a5-bf31-4712-8bb9-51b4365de99f@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com, > I have a licensed copy of MS Office 2004 Professional for my Mac. > Among the bundled software is a copy of Virtual PC 7, and Windows XP [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Bob In article <20d926a5-bf31-4712-8bb9-51b4365de99f@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, > Win XP is bundled on the disks with Virtual PC. How can I get my copy > of Win XP loaded on a new iMac? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > decrease the virtual disk size of VPC down from a default 15gb to > about 4gb). legally you aren't supposed to use the vpc version with 'other hardware,' so you should buy another copy. then just use parallels transporter to migrate your exisiting virtual pc guest image, and then vmware's importer on the result if you prefer vmware over parallels. there is no direct vpc->vmware importer that works at this time. > there is no direct vpc->vmware importer that works at this time. Actually this is not entirely true. You can use VMware Importer in VMware Workstation 6 to import your VPC image into VMware, then that runs in VMware Fusion for OS X on Intel. > > there is no direct vpc->vmware importer that works at this time. > > Actually this is not entirely true. You can use VMware Importer in > VMware Workstation 6 to import your VPC image into VMware, then that > runs in VMware Fusion for OS X on Intel. actually it is true. i spent far too much time getting it to directly import and it never worked correctly. people on the vmware forums also report problems and vmware themselves even state they don't fully support it. i had the most success by using their importer and generating a fully allocated image rather than a sparse image, so my guests suddently became 15-20 gig *each* rather than less than 5 gig, and there were still some functional problems once converted. then i tried parallels transporter and it 'just worked' the very first try and vmware 1.1 now has an importer for parallels images and importing that into vmware also 'just worked.' That is not entirely true. There is a VMWare VPC to VMWare importer under Windows. I have used it in the past 6 months. For the Mac I don't know as I only own PPC Macs and have not followed the Intel products all that much. Personally I would just start from scratch when moving to an Intel Mac this way you know that you started with a clean Windows and don't have to worry about things. On 11/30/07 8:27 PM, in article 301120071727564202%nospam@nospam.invalid, > In article > <20d926a5-bf31-4712-8bb9-51b4365de99f@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > vmware's importer on the result if you prefer vmware over parallels. > there is no direct vpc->vmware importer that works at this time. > That is not entirely true. There is a VMWare VPC to VMWare importer under > Windows. I have used it in the past 6 months. For the Mac I don't know as > I only own PPC Macs and have not followed the Intel products all that much. as i mentioned before, it doesn't work that well and it also generates an older (yet still supported) format. > Personally I would just start from scratch when moving to an Intel Mac this > way you know that you started with a clean Windows and don't have to worry > about things. ideally yes, but a lot of people are not interested in discarding an existing windows system and then reinstalling everything from scratch. Well on my work Windows XP box it did not work all that well either... On 12/1/07 10:24 AM, in article 011220070724133699%nospam@nospam.invalid, >> That is not entirely true. There is a VMWare VPC to VMWare importer under >> Windows. I have used it in the past 6 months. For the Mac I don't know as [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > ideally yes, but a lot of people are not interested in discarding an > existing windows system and then reinstalling everything from scratch. > ideally yes, but a lot of people are not interested in discarding an > existing windows system and then reinstalling everything from scratch. I find that the more technical the user, the more this is true, since Microsoft offers the Windows XP File and Settings transfer wizard which migrates bookmarks, all documents under Documents and Settings, user preferences, background image, and icon positions (seemingly). But so many users are either unaware or untrusting of that tool because you have re-install your apps. IMO, that's a perfect time to separate what you've used vs. what's been built-up. Fight the pack rat mentality! Of course, it also depends where you've gotten your applications, e.g. "what web site did I download squirrel utility 0.783" from?? :) FWIW, I've used the File and Settings transfer wizard successfully a few times especially for relatives machine migrations. But I've also learned to tailor my system modifications to be be compatible with it. And I keep all my OS mods like registry changes, etc in .reg files under D&S so I can reapply them on the next migration. |
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