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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / May 2008Can You Boot Virtual PC from a flash drive?
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) Processor: Power PC My PC just died and I decided using Virtual PC was much cheaper than me going out and buying another PC right now. I'm kind of nervous to install XP onto my Mac and was wondering if it was possible to create the harddisk on a flashdrive and install XP on there? Thanks in advance. > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) > Processor: Power PC [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Thanks in advance. You'll find that VPC is hardly a replacement for a PC. It will be slow and usable in only the most basic things like Office, web browsing, and Quicken/Quickbooks. No games, no sound, no 3D graphics, no USB devices, and all the fun with trojans (the non-latex kind), viruses, spyware and adware. To run VPC requires modifications to MacOS X's kernel, so it won't "just run" by installing it on a "flash drive" (USB thumb or something else).  SignatureDeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... Yeah... I wasn't looking for it to replace a PC. I never hardly used my PC. I just need to test internet explorer for web design purposes. After that... a PC is useless to me. > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) > Processor: Power PC [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I'm kind of nervous to install XP onto my Mac and was wondering if it was > possible to create the harddisk on a flashdrive and install XP on there? I think the virtual disk for VPC can be on anything that looks like a disk to OS X. The virtual disk is just a big file. But I'm not sure what you're nervous about, or how you think this will make things safer? If there's a security hole in VPC that allows Windows applications to access the host environment, it doesn't matter where the virtual disk is -- VPC still has access to anything your account can access. SignatureBarry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** > > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) > > Processor: Power PC [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > where the virtual disk is -- VPC still has access to anything your > account can access. I was about to post the same answer. :o) Virtual PC's "hard disk" is simply a Mac file, so can technically be put anywhere you can store a file, but any Windows nasties that you might get will only infect this pretned "hard drive" and can not cause any problem with the Mac itself or any of the other Mac files. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) I attempted exactly what you are talking about, installing Windows on a flash drive. I have not succeeded to do so yet. But I have found out several things to successfully perform the job. 1. You need to use Mac Extended file system on the flash drive. You can not use MS-DOS file system. 2. You may want 8 GB drive. The reason I have not succeeded yet is simply because I do not have a 4GB or a larger flash drive at this moment. My iBook is G4, so it is quite slow. I thought if I used a flash drive to run Virtual PC, I would have got a better performance. One thing to keep in mind though is whether your G4 has USB 1.1 or 2.0. If the older standard then it may run much slower than on a real hard drive. On 5/21/08 11:08 AM, in article 1f31a7f2-80c7-47d3-a756-5a2da9b5dab5@u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com, > I attempted exactly what you are talking about, > installing Windows on a flash drive. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > My iBook is G4, so it is quite slow. I thought if I used a flash drive > to run Virtual PC, I would have got a better performance. >I attempted exactly what you are talking about, >installing Windows on a flash drive. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >My iBook is G4, so it is quite slow. I thought if I used a flash drive >to run Virtual PC, I would have got a better performance. Flash drives aren't that fast. Your best bet is to get an external firewire hard drive, 7200rpm. That will give your best performance. SignatureCheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ I do not work for Microsoft. |
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