I've tried to install redhat on my virtual pc 3 times. Wont work.
Buggy or i'm insane?
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I've tried to install redhat on my virtual pc 3 times. Wont work.
Buggy or i'm insane?
Your insane. :P I've installed lets see...Slackware, FreeBSD, Gentoo, SuSE, JAMD, Longhorn, and most Windows versions in it O.o
I had problems with VPC, and found its resource consumption too high...
Try VMware, I use it a lot, and its much better IMO.
Right now, I have 8 OSes installed in VMware, and I'm currently running NT4, Gentoo Linux and a custom built Linux inside VMware on a Windows XP host box.
It just works great.
HTH,
Scott
Did'ny know about it.
Thanx
Going for a try
VMware is a lot faster and devices that didn't work on VPC now work fine. Only problem I've had is with getting it to accept some images.
There is also a major bug in the networking security with VPC. It will bypass your firewall with it's emulated ethernet adaptor. I've had people try to hack a VPC system while emule was running in the host. which brings up the emule security problem. But that's another story....
After reading this thread, I decided to give VPC another try, just to see if it has improved much since I last tried it, which was back in april.
I was sorely disappointed by the experience. I strongly urge everyone using VPC to just give Vmware a try. The improvement is formidable, from the performance, to the compatibility and then some.
While I can't say for certain that this applies to people with single CPU machines, since I have two CPUs in the computer on which I did the tests, but the performance of VMware was typically 200-300% above that of VPC in all cases but one (specifically, sound emulation on the virtual machine). This is a very minor point, and IMO everyone with enough RAM to satisfy both OSes (or more, if you so choose) then you will see a big improvement in performance.
The tests were conducted on Windows XP as a host OS, with the following guest OSes:
- Linux 2.2.16
- Linux 2.4.20
- Windows 98
- Windows NT 4 Workstation
- Windows 2000
Scott
I tried vmware before. IMO it used up a lot more resources then Virtual PC did and some OS's installed in it didn't work right.
Which OSes didn't work for you, and which version of VMware were you using?
Also, what OS was the host?
Scott
Host Windows XP Professional with 512 mb of ram. Hell if i remember which ones didn't work :blink: I don't really remember stuff like that... Anyways on that machine VMWare was sloooww but they ran a lot faster in Virtual PC.